Chapter 132: The Empire Group Building Was Built with an Investment of HK$2 Billion!

Chapter 132 The Empire State Building was built with an investment of HK$2 billion! The curtain is about to begin! !

Have a night's rest.

Early the next morning, Yang Ming came down in a wheelchair from upstairs, served by Azhu and Zhong Chuhong.

In the garden of the villa.

Without relying on a wheelchair, Zhong Chuhong and A-Zhu, Yang Ming slowly stood up and walked on his own, intermittently, for about half an hour.

Yang Ming still felt that his legs were a little weak, as if they were not able to fully exert their strength.

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong encouraged him.

"Master, you are so awesome!"

. . .

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong knew that if Yang Shao really returned to walking like a normal person, he would not have to rely on them so much, and they would feel a little disappointed.

Yang Ming's face was sweating. A-Zhu brought a towel to wipe the sweat off Yang Ming's face, and helped Yang Ming return to the wheelchair and sit down.

6:40 am.

Yang Ming accompanied Yang Jirong and his wife to finish breakfast.

Get in the Rolls-Royce and ride to the Federal Building.

The morning was pretty much the same as usual.

noon.

Yang Ming finished lunch in the company canteen.

afternoon.

Imperial Group will have important news to announce to the outside world.

Imperial Group's large conference room.

Conference room reception.

Meris, general manager of Empire Group.

Ma Shimin, General Manager of Wharf Group.

Hutchison Whampoa CEO Wei Li.

Imperial Group Financial Director Tang Shilian and others were present in this conference room.

In addition, sitting below are the designers and representatives of the design industry who came yesterday to participate in the design drawings for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Three people, including Pei Yuming and his son, were present in the conference room.

Last night, Pei Yuming and his son had already learned about the design that Mr. Yang had chosen.

Coming here today is just to formally sign a contract with the Empire Group.

In addition to these, there are also reporters from major newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong.

Asia Television now also sends reporters to conduct interviews.

Yang Ming is not only the boss of Empire Group, but also the controlling shareholder of Asia Television. It can be said that Asia Television is Yang Ming's industry.

It's his mouthpiece.

How could Asia Television not send someone over for such an important matter now?

Merith looked at the watch on his wrist.

The time came to 2:30 pm.

"Everyone, I am Morris, general manager of the Empire Group. I will host this press conference on the construction of the Empire State Building."

The conference room became quiet.

"The person on my left is Mr. Ma Shimin, general manager of Wharf Group."

Ma Shimin stood up and greeted the reporters, designers and others sitting there.

"The person on my right is Mr. Wei Li, CEO of Hutchison Whampoa."

This is the first time for Wei Li to attend a press conference related to the Imperial Group.

It is also an opportunity for Weili.

When he decided to stay at Hutchison Whampoa as CEO, he hoped to integrate into the Empire Group's senior executives.

Now an important core subordinate of Yang Ming.

Except for the financial director Tang Shilian and the female secretary Lin Xiuzhi, they are Chinese.

For example, the general manager of the Empire Group, Merliss, and the general manager of the Wharf Group, Ma Shimin, are all white.

In Wei Li's view, Mr. Yang was someone who could tolerate the presence of white executives.

At this point, he noticed that Mr. Yang was indeed different from others.

It is precisely because of that that Weili knew that if he wanted to integrate into the Imperial Group, he must be recognized by the core executives of the Imperial Group, such as Mr. Yang and Meris.

Being invited to attend such a press conference this time is a kind of recognition.

At this time, Ma Shimin was the general manager of Wharf Group and Wei Li was the executive president of Hutchison Whampoa. They both belonged to Taipan.

In Xiangjiang, their status and influence are very great.

Unexpectedly, they were all invited to attend the press conference this time.

"Some time ago, the Empire Group, in the name of the Wharf Group, purchased the Murray House plot at a high price. The Empire Group is planning to build the Empire Group Building on the original site of the Murray House plot as the company's headquarters. During this period, the Empire Group invited the world After more than half a month, hundreds of famous architects and architectural design experts from all over the world came to Xiangjiang with their works.”

"Yesterday, in the conference room of our Empire Group, famous architects and representatives from architectural design firms from all over the world presented their design concepts and outstanding works. However, the Empire Group Building can only choose the most suitable ones from them. If a design is not selected, I hope you can still actively participate in the next cooperation with Empire Group. "

Everyone knows.

For the construction of the Empire State Building, you can only choose one of the designs.

The rest will definitely not be selected.

They all know this very well.

If the Imperial Group can say that, it can be regarded as giving them face.

Like Wharf itself, Hutchison Whampoa itself has its own huge real estate properties, and it must also have its own architects.

They also participated this time, but were not selected either.

"After our Chairman of the Empire Group, Mr. Yang, and relevant executives of the Empire Group, we finally selected and confirmed that the work designed by Mr. Pei from the New York-based IM Pei Architectural Design Firm was selected by us. Congratulations to Mr. Pei."

Pei Yuming and his son already knew last night.

Now, when Mai Lisi announced it in public, Pei Yuming and his son were still very happy.

Other designers already knew Pei Yuming's work last night.

Some people may not be convinced, but most designers are convinced of their defeat.

"Now, please welcome Mr. Pei Yuming."

Pei Yuming stood up amid the applause of those architectural designers and reporters and went to the front desk.

After shaking hands with Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, Tang Shilian and others, he said: "Thank you very much for the support and trust of the Empire Group and Mr. Yang, the chairman of the Empire Group, for being able to choose my work from so many works."

Pei Yuming began to take out his own works and began to introduce them in front of those reporters.

"This architectural design drawing is the result of the joint efforts of me, my eldest son Pei Dingzhong, my second son Pei Jianzhong, and two Feng Shui masters from Hong Kong, Mr. Chen and Professor Song."

"Among them, the overall building height is 699 meters high."

699 meters high?

Those reporters were stunned when they heard it.

What is this concept?

The tallest building in Hong Kong now, the Connaught Building, is only 178.5 meters high.

The Federal Building where the Empire Group is located is only 95 meters high.

The office building of the Sears Department Store in Chicago, USA, was built in 1970 and designed by the SOM Architectural Firm of USA. It is the tallest building in the world so far. There are 110 floors on the ground and it is 443 meters high.

The Sears Office Building is 443 meters high and is already the tallest building in the world.

The building built by the Empire Group is now 699 meters high.

It is not only the tallest building in Hong Kong, but also in Asia and the world.

The highest point of the Peak is 554 meters, and the Empire Group Building, which is nearly 700 meters high, is more than 100 meters higher.

How could such news not shock the reporters present?

With the current technology, it can be built no matter how high it is, but the problem is that it requires huge financial support.

The Empire Group has such funds.

According to Pei Yuming's prediction, if the Empire Group Building is built according to his design, the cost will be at least between 1.5 billion and 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars.

What is the concept?

In 1978, this was definitely a huge sum of money.

Even other large groups in Hong Kong may not be able to easily come up with such a sum of money.

Moreover, some time ago, the Empire Group had spent more than 600 million Hong Kong dollars in bidding for the Murray Building site.

This amount has exceeded 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.

In Yang Ming's opinion, it is very worthwhile.

In addition to being the office location of the Empire Group's parent company, the remaining space can be rented out or used for other purposes.

It is very likely that this building will be worth 100 billion Hong Kong dollars in the future.

After Mai Lisi and I.M. Pei announced this surprising news to the reporters, the reporters once again lamented the wealth of the Empire Group.

If the Empire Group did not have so much money, it would be impossible to build such a huge building.

After I.M. Pei gave a general idea of ​​the design of the Empire Group Building.

Mai Lisi continued to announce: "The construction of the Empire Group Building will be jointly undertaken by Wharf Properties, Hutchison Properties, and I.M. Pei Architects, and the construction period will be five years."

Five years seems a bit long to Yang Ming.

However, Yang Ming gave enough time to ensure the quality of the building.

When Michael Reese, Ma Shimin, Weeley, and I.M. Pei signed the contract on behalf of Empire Group, Wharf Group, Hutchison Whampoa, and I.M. Pei Architects respectively.

Under the witness of those reporters.

The construction of the Empire Group's parent company building is about to begin.

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