Chapter 1664

Zhou Andong scanned the crowd and said earnestly: "Most of you sitting here today for this meeting are shareholders of the group. Based on the group's current valuation, the shares in your hands are enough for you to spend for a lifetime.

Moreover, the group's development will only get better. In a few years, your children and grandchildren won't be able to spend all the shares you hold, so why do you need so much money?

For ordinary people, earning money is not easy; they would hesitate for a long time before spending one mao to buy an ice pop for their child. But for us, money lying in the bank is actually just a number."

Zhou Andong picked up his teacup, took a sip of water, and then continued.

"Since the money is already more than we can spend, we should take the initiative to stand up and do something for this society..."

"Chairman, don't say any more." Gu Qing said: "No matter what decision you make, we will all firmly stand behind you and support you."

"Right!" Du Chunlai echoed: "We support you."

Others expressed their positions one after another, all unconditionally supporting Zhou Andong's decision.

Seeing this scene made Huang Qikang's blood boil. He was very glad about his initial decision to choose Yugong Group.

Because he saw the cohesion of Yugong Group and Zhou Andong's sentiments.

With such an enterprise and such a leader, why worry about the lack of future development?

"Also." Zhou Andong continued: "I will personally donate to build a hospital, including various medical equipment. The design and construction will be handled by Yuxi Real Estate."

Gu Qing stated: "After I go back, I will hold a meeting to organize personnel to go to Shiquanhe for a field inspection as soon as possible."

Zhou Andong nodded: "As for the medical equipment, I will leave it to Qiu Dongfang to purchase."

Only then did everyone realize that Zhou Andong hadn't donated money or supplies to the disaster area because he was donating to build a hospital.

"And schools." Zhou Andong said with a heavy tone: "I went to a primary school in the disaster area; there was only one teacher and a dozen students.

The classroom was just an ordinary mud-brick house, leaking wind from all sides, and even the blackboard was made of nailed-together wooden boards painted with ink. According to the Ali Prefectural Party Secretary, the situation in the schools in every township is about the same.

So, our charitable foundation must also organize a team to go there for inspection and donate to build a few Hope Primary Schools."

The general manager of the charitable foundation is named Lu Qibin, who is sixty-two this year and is a retired old director from the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau.

Because the charitable foundation is very important and few people understand it, they couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while.

Deng Zhangli recommended Lu Qibin, and when this person was in office, he truly did quite a few good deeds for the common people.

Just like that, introduced by Deng Zhangli, Lu Qibin came to Yugong Group's charitable foundation.

And civil affairs work and charity actually have many things in common. Lu Qibin's ability is truly beyond reproach; he certainly didn't disappoint Zhou Andong.

Over the past year or so, Lu Qibin seemed to have experienced a second spring, full of energy, managing the foundation in an orderly manner, and even often going to impoverished areas for inspections himself.

"I want to go to Ali personally." Lu Qibin's voice was low, sounding very powerful: "In the Ali region, every township has a school, but there are few students and a lack of teaching staff.

I think we should integrate the teaching staff of the schools in each township of each county and build one or two primary schools."

Gu Bing said: "Ali is vast and sparsely populated; the distance between counties is one or two hundred kilometers, and the distance between townships is also dozens of kilometers. Integrating them will be quite difficult."

"I know that." Lu Qibin nodded: "These are all easy to solve. For example, let the students board at the school, and we donate a few buses to pick them up on Monday morning and send them back on Friday evening.

Actually, the hardest thing to solve is the children's food and drink. The Ali region itself is impoverished; letting the children pay for their own meal expenses is obviously unrealistic.

And meal expenses are long-term; it's also unrealistic for our foundation to bear the meal costs, so I want to go there personally to see if the counties, the prefectural committee, or even the autonomous region can provide some subsidies.

If they can provide subsidies, integrating the teaching staff into one or two schools is beneficial to the government, the teachers, and the students, with no harm at all."

"Okay!" Zhou Andong made the final decision, then said: "Although the climate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is harsh, the scenery is unique and very, very beautiful.

And now the country is vigorously supporting the tourism industry. I predict that within five years, our country's tourism industry will experience explosive growth. And the Yunnan-Tibet line, the Qinghai-Tibet line, the Sichuan-Tibet line, including the Ali Grand Loop, will definitely become the most popular tourist routes.

So I want to form a new company to invest in hotel chains and gas station chains along these routes. If anyone is interested, you can invest some money in it."

Since Wu Hongkang and Zhang Shenghui wanted to invest in potash fertilizer, let's give this opportunity to the senior management of Yugong Group.

After all, there are many who joined later and don't have shares yet; let's give this opportunity to them.

By binding everyone's interests together, everyone will have more cohesion.

Moreover, he doesn't want to rely on investing in chain hotels and gas stations to make a lot of money; he doesn't care about that.

The original intention is to support local economic construction and increase employment opportunities for local people.

The Chairman wants to establish a new company, invest in hotel chains and gas station chains, and bring them along—this excited them to no end.

Especially Lu Qibin and Huang Qikang, who joined the group later; although their salaries are quite high, at this time, they are definitely high-paying jobs.

But without shares, just receiving a salary, no one would be too satisfied. Therefore, they were all eyeing the group's incentive shares, but getting those shares is not that easy.

Now Zhou Andong gave them another choice, and they were truly excited inside. As for whether they would lose money or even lose everything, that was completely out of their consideration.

Because in their hearts, Zhou Andong is the God of Commerce; as long as the investment project chosen by the Chairman, it will definitely not lose money. So, the only thought in their minds was: what is the total investment, how many shares can they get, and where can they raise the money.

Zhou Andong picked up the cigarette Gu Bing had placed on the conference table and lit one: "Investing in hotel and gas station chains won't make big money, but it's definitely no problem to earn some pocket money and retirement money for you.

However, I want to remind everyone: I welcome anyone who wants to invest, but you must be clear that hotels and gas stations are chains, the investment cycle is relatively long, so the profit cycle will also be very long."

Lu Qibin hesitated for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter if the profit cycle is long or not; I just want to invest, even if I can't raise much money."

"No money? That's no problem." Zhou Andong started to vigorously solicit business for his bank again: "I know a Hong Kong bank that is going to set up a branch in Shanghai; I can guarantee loans for you."

Hearing Zhou Andong say he would guarantee loans for them, Lu Qibin, Huang Qikang, and the others were all deeply moved.

Taking you to invest and make money, and even guaranteeing you to get bank loans—where can you find such a good boss?

One by one, they immediately had the realization of "a scholar dies for his confidant," and everyone's face was flushed with excitement.