Chapter 503 Launching the Hong Kong "Silicon Port" Plan!
Soon the Chief Executive's Office responded, and the Liaison Office in Hong Kong had also contacted them before. Li Xiaofan, Academician Ni, Dr. Zhang and his party, accompanied by Director Ye Shukun, visited the Chief Executive.
After listening to the detailed introduction of Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang's project, the Chief Executive was also very excited. Hong Kong Island needs such top high-tech projects.
The SAR government itself is also conducting preliminary research on the Silicon Harbour plan of "Hong Kong Silicon Valley". At that time, East Asia was taking on the wafer and semiconductor production needs transferred from Europe and the United States, which was becoming the mainstream. Taiwan's well-known "Hsinchu Science Park" was built around the same time.
In the policy address prepared for next year, the Chief Executive had originally planned to propose the development of Hong Kong through science and technology, to develop Hong Kong Island into an international innovation and technology center, and to plan to build a semiconductor electronic high-tech park project called "Silicon Harbour" in Hong Kong.
Cyrix's CPU processor R&D and design center and Dr. Zhang's wafer foundry are two major projects that coincide with the Chief Executive's ideas! Moreover, Li Xiaofan promised that a number of high-tech industrial projects such as the R&D center of Apollo EDA software could also be brought to Hong Kong Island in the future.
After meeting with Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang, the Chief Executive attached great importance to it and assigned the task of coordinating the introduction and service projects to Director Ye Shukun, who personally listened to the project progress reports regularly.
When soliciting opinions from Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang on the site selection, Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang both believed that referring to the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley, Pokfulam near the University of Hong Kong was the most suitable place to replicate the successful experience of Silicon Valley.
In the previous life, Hong Kong Island's Cyberport was placed here. In this life, Li Xiaofan will not let it become a disguised real estate project again.
After Director Ye Shukun took the lead in coordinating the Planning, Environment and Lands Bureau and other relevant Hong Kong Island government departments, a preliminary site was given: Wireline Bay, Pokfulam, South District, Hong Kong Island, covering an area of 24 hectares, about 360 acres of land.
Later, Li Xiaofan asked Lin Muchu to be responsible for the spatial and industrial planning research and financial calculations by DTZ Leung Chun-ying Surveyors and PWC. Referring to the model of Yingke in the previous life, he put forward his own requirements to the Hong Kong government, namely: the government provides land, 70% of which is used as industrial land for the development of the "Silicon Harbor" park, and the other 30% is used to develop residential projects as talent supporting apartments...
Then, the Hong Kong government began to emphasize the promotion of high-tech industries in Hong Kong Island in the end-of-year policy address.
Li Xiaofan proposed a public-private partnership similar to the popular PPP model to the Hong Kong government: establish a joint venture company, Yifan Holdings is responsible for the development of the overall "Silicon Harbor" park project, and return it to the Hong Kong government after the development.
Dr. Zhang's wafer foundry, Cyrix's CPU processor R&D and design center, and Apollo EDA software R&D center will all be settled in the "Silicon Harbor" park, renting most of the factory buildings and R&D office buildings inside.
Yifan Holdings' very successful Y-lab startup incubator in Silicon Valley, USA, will also move into the "Silicon Harbor" park to help the Hong Kong government incubate and accelerate a number of high-tech startup projects...
However, Li Xiaofan requested that a portion of the approved land be allocated for residential development and then sold to balance the development costs...
Li Xiaofan's model uses the Yingke Cyberport model that Li Xiaofan, the melon picker, played in his previous life. However, Xiao Li played "empty gloves" and he himself did not control many high-tech industries with technological content. And now Li Xiaofan has all the trump cards in his hands!
Of course, the "Silicon Harbor" park cooperative development plan proposed by Li Xiaofan has more or less caused controversy in the Hong Kong government, because there are too many people who are interested in the Feng Shui treasure land of Gangxian Bay in Pokfulam, South District, Hong Kong Island. Fortunately, the Asian financial crisis is currently underway, and there are fewer people participating in the competition.
On the eve of Christmas in mid-December, Li Xiaofan accompanied the Secretary for Economic Affairs of Hong Kong Island, Mr. Ye Shukun, and a delegation of Hong Kong Island representatives and entrepreneurs to the United States and Singapore, and visited a number of projects controlled by Li Xiaofan, including Cyrix, Silicon Valley Y-lab Entrepreneurship Incubator, Singapore Pacific Online Bookstore, Yahoo Singapore Station, Singapore Apollo EDA Software R&D Center, and other projects. As well as the semiconductor wafer manufacturing plant of TI Texas Instruments where Dr. Zhang once worked, and a number of unicorn projects such as Yahoo, NVIDIA and OmniVision Technologies in the United States where Li Xiaofan served as a director and invested.
Although Cyrix has encountered some setbacks at present, it is still the world's third largest CPU processor company after Intel and AMD. At present, the company is improving the original semiconductor process technology under the leadership of the new chairman Dr. Zhang. Moreover, after the huge capital transfusion of US$250 million from Li Xiaofan, it is speeding up the development of the third-generation M3-CPU processor to improve the performance in floating-point and integer operations, and strive to catch up with and surpass Intel's P6 and AMD's K6 processor products.
The Y-lab startup incubator is thriving.
Whether it is Zhu Min's WebEx network communication project, Dai Weili's team's Marvell technology project, Dai Weimin's Ultima Interconnect Technology project, his second brother Dai Weijin's Silicon Perspective Silicon Valley Vision project, or Elon Musk's GlobalLink information website project, a large number of unicorn projects invested by Li Xiaofan are developing well and experiencing explosive performance.
Zhu Min's WebEx project currently mainly provides Internet online conference services. They recently lobbied small departments of large companies one by one in a guerrilla warfare manner, selling higher quality services at a lower cost than the department operating Microsoft Netmeetings on its own. When a certain number of small departments are infiltrated, they will lobby to obtain the company's full contract. In this way, under the leadership of Zhu Min, WebEx used the method of defending the city from the countryside to defeat Microsoft's major customers such as Boeing, General Electric, and General Motors one by one, announcing the success of the counterattack against Microsoft. The WebEx project currently has a market share of more than 60% in the global commercial network video conferencing market.
The magnetic storage driver chip project of Marvell Technology, the team led by Dai Weili, has become the main supplier of Seagate, and orders from giants such as Samsung in South Korea and Toshiba in Japan have also come in.
Ultima, a company led by Dai Weimin, was recently pursued by EDA giant Cadence to be acquired for $135 million...
After a detailed investigation, seeing is believing, and facts speak louder than words. All members of the inspection team sent by Hong Kong Island were convinced of the strength of Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang's team. Everyone agreed that Li Xiaofan and Dr. Zhang's team were fully capable of supporting the "Silicon Harbor" park.
On Sunday evening, after seeing off the Hong Kong Island inspection team and leaving Singapore to return to Hong Kong, Li Xiaofan asked Gu Li to drive him to the Orchid Village Market.
After eating a bowl of delicious seafood rice noodles from Qiu Bo's family at the market, he slowly walked back to his big villa.
When passing by the familiar terraced house dormitory, Li Xiaofan couldn't help but stop, there were too many memories of the past.
He still remembered the day he moved out at the end of last year, and Liu Mengchen, who was reluctant to leave, lay in his arms and cried bitterly...
After Li Xiaofan and Guo Hanyue moved out one after another, Wang Danrong and Dai Junling moved into the terraced house. Now, Liu Mengchen, Wang Danrong, Dai Junling and three other girls live in the row house.
The past is like smoke...
When Li Xiaofan was smoking a cigar and standing in front of the row house reminiscing about the past, suddenly someone called out in surprise from behind: "Boss!"