One day…
Two days…
Three days…
The Labor Day Holidays is over, and it’s time for the investment fair’s closing ceremony.
Dong Xuebing is at Xiang Yi Hotel to check on the venue. “Director Luo, can you hurry them? Why is the venue not ready yet? The closing ceremony is about to start, and Mayor Xie is arriving in twenty minutes.”
Luo Haiting quickly replied. “We are working on it, and it will be ready soon.”
“Chief Lin!” Dong Xuebing asked. “Are the speeches ready?”
“Yes.” Lin Pingping replied.
“Good. Old Sun, can you contact the investors who are signing the contracts again? Master Park is not here yet. Can you call them and see if they are caught up in the traffic? If they cannot get here in time, we can go and fetch them.”
“Yes.”
All the Investment Promotion Agency staff are energetic today. They had worked hard during the investment fair, and this is the time to see their results. Many staff is looking forward to it. Some of the investments are only finalized this morning, and no one knows how much investment they can raise from this fair. But Chief Dong looks confident, and they know it should be a large amount. It should be at least 150 million RMB.
150 million RMB…
Everyone from the Investment Promotion Agency will get credit for it!
Dong Xuebing is the busiest these few days. He worked from 6 am to 9 pm every day. Besides accompanying the investors to the sites, he also had to negotiate with them for each investment. The words he said over these two days are more than the total of words he said in the past year. His voice is hoarse from speaking too much. But after finalizing this morning’s contract, he felt everything is worth it.
“Chief, the total amount of investment….” Jiang Hailiang could not hold back his curiosity.
Dong Xuebing smiles. “I will leave you all in suspense for now. You all will know later.”
Jiang Hailiang wonders if the total amount is more than 150 million. Is it 200 million or more?!
After a while, the County Government Leaders arrived.
The TV station and newspaper reporters panned their cameras to the entrance.
Mayor Xie, who had dressed up for this occasion, is the first to enter the hotel lobby, followed by Zhao Xinglong, who is in charge of the County’s investments, and County Government Office Director Yao Yi. This is to show the County Government’s attitude towards this investment fair and get the credit for the fair’s success. Everyone knows what Xiang Daofa’s son did, and he was forced not to turn up for this important event.
Ten minutes later.
The hotel’s ballroom. The closing ceremony had started.
This closing ceremony looks more like the contract signing ceremony. The last day of the investment fair is to see the result. But many investors still have not decided if they want to invest in the projects they saw yesterday, and no one knows how much investment they will get for this fair. This is the moment. Everyone is eager to see the fair’s result. Some are waiting to see Mayor Xie and Dong Xuebing embarrass themselves. If they cannot even get 100 million RMB worth of investments, they will be a joke.
Clap… clap…. Clap….
Lin Pingping steps onto the stage with a smile. “Good morning, Leaders and guests….”
There are about 100 people in the ballroom, as some investors had left. But some who have not decided on signing the contracts remained. The rests are the Government and Investment Promotion Agency’s staff and reporters.
After Lin Pingping’s opening speech, Xie Huilan and Zhao Xinglong went on to say something.
After that, it is the contract signing ceremony. Lin Pingping invited Dong Xuebing onto the stage.
Xie Huilan did not walks down the stage and stood there with a smile. Everyone knew that she is going to host the contract signing personally.
Dong Xuebing went onto the stage eagerly and announced the first investment project. It is an agricultural by-product investment. This investor, Li Jie, is one of the members of the Shandong investment group invited by Xie Huilan. Although Xie Huilan had only invited them to make up the numbers, some are interested in investing in the County. Li Jie is one of them, and Dong Xuebing accompanied him for two days to get him to invest. The total investment is around 20 million RMB.
The contract signing started.
The Investment Promotion Agency’s staff had prepared the contract. The audience applause after Xie Huilan and Li Jie signed it. Li Jie held a 20 million enlarged ICBC check and gave it to Xie Huilan. Both shook hands, and reporters started taking pictures. That check is fake and is only a prop for photo taking.
After that, Dong Xuebing announced another project worth 30 million.
The Investment Promotion Agency had invited the investor.
The total investment is now 50 million RMB!
Sun Shuli, Luo Haiting, Lin Pingping, and the rest are excited. The Agency had raised 50 million now, and there’s more….”
“Let’s invite Mr. Zhou Zhengliang next.” Dong Xuebing continued.
Zhou Zhengliang is the investor invited by Xiang Daofa.
Zhou Zhengliang went up the stage and gave a short speech about his analysis of Yan Tai County’s economic environment before announcing his investment amount. 80 million RMB!
Luo Haiting took a deep breath and looked at Sun Shuli. 130 million RMB?!
The crowd also got excited. Many people felt Mayor Xie and Chief Dong are going to win big this time!
After Zhou Zhengliang signed the contract, Dong Xuebing announced Park Yongxi’s name. Many people are concern about his investment because of what happened. Secretary Xiang had stuck his hands into the Agency’s affairs and embarrassed himself. Park Yongxi had also changed his mind during that time, and everyone started paying attention to the amount.
Park Yongxi went up the stage and announced his investment!
120 million RMB! Not only did he not cancel his investment, and he even raises it by 20 million!
The Investment Promotion Agency’s staff got more excited, and Sun Shuli and the other department heads are the most excited. The total investment raised is now 250 million RMB!
Even the TV station’s staff are stunned. They had not expected Chief Dong to get such results from this fair.
250 million RMB!
How much investment did Yan Tai County have last year?
Before everyone gets over this excitement, Dong Xuebing made another announcement. “The next project is the final project. Haha… let’s welcome Mu Zhengzhong, Teacher Mu, on the stage.”
There’s more?!
That’s not the end?!
Not only the Yan Tai County Government staff are surprised, but many investors are also stunned. Teacher Mu is here to invest. Is he going to switch from antique collecting to investment?
Mu Zhengzhong picked up the microphone and smiled at the audience. “I have high hopes for Yan Tai County’s future. I am going to make a long-term investment by building a hotel and investing in a commercial F&B street here.” He had reached an agreement with Dong Xuebing before coming to the investment fair. Although those exchanged relics cannot be auctioned, it’s worth a few hundred million. Since Dong Xuebing does not want to accept any payments for the relics, he decided to return the favor by investing some money in the County and does not expect any returns from the hotel and F&B street.
Everyone is shocked.
Hotel?
F&B street?
These are all expensive projects! A hotel is at least ten to twenty stories and will cost more than 100 million RMB. How much is he going to invest?
The ballroom is quiet, and everyone is looking at Mu Zhengzhong.
Mu Zhengzhong paused for a second. “I will be investing… haha… a total of 200 million RMB!”
200 million RMB!
Everyone is shocked by this amount!
Xie Huilan and Zhao Xinglong knew about this before the ceremony and went on to the stage to sign the contract.
Many people are speechless when they look at that 200 million checks. Dong Xuebing! It’s Dong Xuebing again! After he replaced Chief Jia as the investment fair’s person in charge, he increased the number of participants from less than 10 to over 100 participants and even raised so many investments!
This investment fair had raised 450 million RMB worth of investment. With the 50 million RMB investment the Agency got before the fair, they had achieved the target of 500 million RMB! Not only had they completed it before the deadline, and they only took three months to do that. Even Fenzhou City and other Cities’ Investment Promotion Agencies cannot raise 500 million RMB worth of investments within three months!
What is this capability?!
Who says Xie Huilan has no foresight for picking Dong Xuebing as her partner?! Who dares to say he is more capable than him in the County?!
At 10.30 am, the investment fair ended.
The Investment Promotion Agency and Dong Xuebing are in the spotlight again.
Actually, Dong Xuebing had not expected this. He was also not confident of achieving the 500 million RMB target. But it was achieved with just one investment fair. Is this time to consider promotion? Although he can’t be promoted to a Deputy Divisional Chief, as he had become the Section Chief three to four months ago, he can transfer to another department with more power.
