Chapter 2796: Trouble

The car stopped slowly, and the men and women who were waiting on the steps walked down the steps politely and proudly with bright smiles on their faces. Their pace should be faster than their average level, but it was definitely not a jog.

The building behind them had a lobby on the first floor that was at least ten meters high. The building and lights opposite were reflected on the floor-to-ceiling glass. The chandeliers and pillars in the lobby were also clearly visible. This was a scene that made people feel confused.

In the lobby, some people stood far away and watched the scene in front of the door, their eyes full of eagerness - making this scene suddenly vivid.

When the welcoming group walked down the steps, the car door just opened.

But no one came out.

"Mr. Feng," Wu Qian couldn't help but remind him.

"Ah," Feng Yiping came back to his senses from his contemplation and immediately saw the group of people waiting with smiles beside the wide-open car door.

Are we here now?

"Hello, hello, hello," he shook hands with these new and old friends enthusiastically.

He and some of them were meeting for the first time, but there was no need for introductions at all - no one present had not been reported by various media, and no one was without an identity.

Not only those who could only watch from afar knew their identities, but Feng Yiping also knew them.

Yesterday's chairman of the board, today's chairman, "Mr. Feng, when we heard that you were coming, everyone's enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high,"

"Look," he pointed to the people around him and said, "These are all our executive directors in Beijing,"

"Even the attendance rate of directors is more than 50%,"

With Jin Ling's introduction, Feng Yiping knew that such a result was not easy. You know, the Entrepreneur Club can be said to be the most representative group in the domestic business community, which includes dozens of the top people in the domestic business community.

The Entrepreneur Club is also the most inclusive group among various organizations in the domestic business community. Several of those legendary mortal enemies and well-known competitors who actually don't get along well are members of this group.

These leading representatives from all walks of life are not only busy with work, but also come from all over the country. It is rare for a special guest like me to attract so many people to put down their work and come here.

"Thank you, thank you for your kindness," Feng Yiping bowed to his left and right again - he felt that he liked this action more and more recently.

More than one person said, "When the situation is so pessimistic, we all hope to hear your views on the future trend, Mr. Feng,"

That's right, this is the main reason why they decided to rush to the meeting after receiving the notice.

No matter how confident and arrogant they are, at this time, being able to hear Feng Yiping's insights and communicate with him face to face is certainly an opportunity not to be missed.

Even if Feng Yiping's opinions are just used as a reference, they must be rare reference opinions.

Feng Yiping also has a full understanding and preparation for this. In a conference room that accommodates nearly 40 people, he communicated his views with everyone more and more smoothly. "The situation is not optimistic. I believe everyone knows that the growth rate of various economies around the world will slow down in the future..."

"... Because people's willingness to consume has decreased, the export of some of our products will be further reduced,"

"Similarly, in such an environment, it is difficult for the domestic market to make long-term progress in the short term,"

"But if you take all factors into consideration, I am full of confidence in the future. I believe that both the economic growth rate and our export volume will still increase overall,"

"This is mainly due to our advantages in manufacturing. We all know that some of our major exports are necessities of life. At this time, some people in Europe and the United States may not They will buy luxury goods, not cars, and look for more economical vacation spots... but they still have to buy clothes and other necessities of life..."

"Everyone also knows that the country is brewing a strong economic stimulus plan... Therefore, in the long run, I prefer to regard this crisis as an opportunity, an opportunity to promote the upgrading of our industry,"

"I believe everyone has also experienced that in recent years, the labor cost of domestic production factors has risen rapidly. This trend is also irreversible. Soon, we will face the problem that our European and American counterparts are headaches about: workers' wages are getting higher and higher,"

"The most effective way to solve this problem is to increase the added value of our products,"

When it comes to this, more people interrupted. Whether the situation is good or not, Feng Yiping doesn't need to say it now. Everyone knows that in the next few years, it should not be as comfortable as in the past.

But the people present are not those coastal companies that mainly focus on exports. They are all diversified and have not hung themselves on the tree of foreign sales.

Even though export accounts for a large proportion of their total revenue, they are not worried. In good economic years, competition is also fierce. The current situation only means that competition will be more intense. They still have the confidence and means to increase exports. Of course, income may inevitably decline.

But the increase in labor costs is a long-term problem.

Although everyone has been calling for independent innovation and increasing R&D investment in recent years, in fact, when the business is going well and the products produced by existing equipment and processes still have a good market, there are really few companies willing to invest heavily in R&D.

A few years ago, few people really cared about the so-called labor costs. Isn’t our biggest advantage that we have a large number of people?

When there are many people and few jobs, why worry about the increase in labor costs?

But now, as Feng Yiping said, some trends are indeed becoming more and more obvious. The most obvious one is that in the past two years, some places and some factories have already had problems recruiting workers.

To solve this problem, the only way is to increase wages.

The demographic dividend is really coming to an end.

For the same product, excluding the factors of exchange rate and raw material fluctuations, its sales price is also declining every year - at least it is difficult to increase, and it is also an irreversible trend.

Of course, there are other ways to reduce costs, such as moving factories to the west or inland areas with lower comprehensive costs, but that is just a delay, not a solution.

To fundamentally solve this problem, as Feng Yiping said, only by increasing research and development efforts and increasing the added value of new products.

"In the future, we will not only face the problem of rising human resource costs," Feng Yiping shifted the topic of today to the direction he wanted to talk about, "Another major cost is the cost of land use,"

"In the past two years, real estate prices have been rising steadily, which naturally leads to the cost of commercial land rising step by step," Feng Yiping shook his head, "Our convenience stores, express hotels... Look at the current rents, and then look at the rents a few years ago, and I feel that in just a few years, it feels like a lifetime ago,"

Many people thought, as expected, the richest man Feng still talked about this issue, but this is indeed a problem.

At this time, the head of a well-known real estate company said, "In recent years, our land acquisition costs have also soared rapidly,"

This does not seem to be disgusted with Feng Yiping's attitude.

Feng Yiping nodded at him, "I have always felt that the development in this area is really unhealthy. The results of this economic crisis fully prove that the market economy is not omnipotent, and we have left the solution of residents' housing problems to the market, and the government has let go of all the issues."

"Even in developed countries in Europe and the United States that believe in the market economy, they have not left this issue entirely to the market."

"One of the reasons for the economic crisis that originated in the United States is that many people have seen the high returns brought by real estate, so even those who do not have much strength have bought several properties, and there is also such a trend in China now..."

"I think if it continues to develop like this, it won't be long before we find that those experts who advocated that the stock market would break through 10,000 points at the end of last year, what they said was not all nonsense."

"The housing prices in the capital may really reach 80,000 yuan per square meter as they said,"

"Imagine that on that day, how high will our land cost be? How much salary do we have to offer to retain those talents urgently needed for the development of enterprises?"

Feng Yiping, who was expressing his views, did not notice that several people in the conference room were smiling and looking in one direction at this time.

When Feng Yiping was about to further elaborate on his point of view, the person in that direction spoke up, "Mr. Feng, you have been criticizing our real estate industry and the high housing prices, but as far as we know, you yourself are the beneficiary of high housing prices."