Chapter 440

"In addition to these, there is one more point: in the future, all products and accessories entering the Wanjia Appliance City must undergo safety testing, regardless of which region the brand comes from!"

Li Dongling said to Ning Wenge. By promoting products like air fryers, Wanjia Appliance City could increase its influence, but if he wanted everyone to accept that Wanjia Appliance City's products were a concept of health, besides hype, he needed to do one more thing: establish authority!

In his previous life, Li Dongling remembered a safety incident in the appliance industry that shocked the world: the humidifier disinfectant incident in South Korea, which directly wiped out South Korean appliance brands.

Indoor humidifiers had been quite popular in South Korea for two years. There was nothing wrong with this; the product was produced for health.

And there was nothing wrong with disinfectant; it was also for health. But when these two things appeared together, there was a problem—it would cost lives, human lives in the physical sense, not just words.

Tens of thousands of people in South Korea suffered health problems because of the disinfectant added to humidifiers, and some even lost their lives. After the news broke, families who had bought humidifiers were all in a state of panic, and the South Korean appliance industry collapsed overnight. Never mind selling overseas; South Korea itself didn't buy it anymore. Since then, South Korean appliances have never been able to stand up again.

If Wanjia Appliance City entered the South Korean market and exposed this incident, it might have to pay some price, but it would make Wanjia Appliance City synonymous with safe appliances and make Wanjia Appliance City's concept of safety and health deeply rooted in people's hearts!

Launching air fryers and exposing the South Korean appliance safety incident would be enough to establish Wanjia Appliance City's prestige. As long as they seized the opportunity, in the ten or twenty years before the e-commerce era arrived, no one would be able to shake Wanjia Appliance City's position!

Ning Wenge didn't know why Li Dongling would say this. In the past, product safety was handled by the manufacturers themselves, and Wanjia Appliance City doing it felt a bit like overstepping, but she still nodded.

Ning Wenge carefully put away the air fryer blueprints. She cared much more about the concept of packaging Wanjia Appliance City that Li Dongling proposed, as well as projects like the air fryer.

Handing the blueprints to the female secretary outside the door for safekeeping, Ning Wenge turned back, "I will discuss the new projects and plans for Wanjia Appliance City with Lanchi!"

Lanchi was the European General Manager of Wanjia Appliance City. Li Dongling had always promoted localization overseas, meaning brands and products under Dongling High-Tech had to integrate into the local market; users couldn't obviously feel they were buying foreign goods.

Wanjia Appliance City was now divided into three parts. Europe was managed by Lanchi, the Wanjia Appliance City in Hong Kong and Asia was managed by Ning Wenge, and the Wanjia Appliance Cities in the mainland, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai, were managed by professional managers selected by Dongling High-Tech headquarters.

Nominally, whether it was the mainland, Hong Kong, or European Wanjia Appliance City, they all belonged to the Wanja Foundation, but in reality, the management methods of the three Wanjia Appliance Cities in different regions were completely different, and it could even be said they were worlds apart. Basically, they were all operating according to the methods most suitable for the local area.

But no matter where the Wanjia Appliance City was, as long as it hung this sign, they all used the same supply system, and the promotional content was also consistent.

"Under the storm, the female head of the Ning family and the founder of Dongling High-Tech visit Wanjia Appliance City together!"

"Li Dongling denies involvement in Zhao Shinan's bankruptcy, but there are still self-proclaimed insiders revealing that Li Dongling is involved in the Zhao family case!"

"The Zhao family's logistics and shipping company, due to the suspension storm, has a broken capital chain and huge losses, with over 70% of its net worth disappearing!"

The next day, when he woke up in the seaside villa, Li Dongling went downstairs to find that the chef in the villa had already prepared breakfast. On Ning Wenge's side, fearing that Hong Kong chefs wouldn't suit Li Dongling's taste, she had specifically found a mainland chef to cook.

Just as Li Dongling sat down, the Filipino maid placed the breakfast and newspapers in front of him. Domestic helpers were quite popular in Hong Kong these years, with Filipino maids being the most famous.

Even ordinary middle-class families in Hong Kong would hire Filipino maids to clean the house, cook, etc. It is rumored that one in every seven middle-class families in Hong Kong hires a Filipino maid. There are over 200,000 Filipino maids in Hong Kong, but it's not just Hong Kong that hires them; there are over 2.5 million Filipino maids worldwide.

Li Dongling didn't have that many rules, so he let Yang Zhi and the two bodyguards who came from Hanxi sit down and eat together.

Li Dongling flipped through the newspapers. There were still quite a few media outlets in Hong Kong pulling news about Li Dongling and Ning Wenge, and some were even more outrageous, such as revealing Li Dongling's mysterious family background. Some tabloids even claimed that Li Dongling was from a Beijing courtyard family, and that this time the Hong Kong Zhao family was so unlucky because Beijing had taken action, etc.

Seeing these news reports, Li Dongling couldn't help but shake his head. The imagination of Hong Kong media is indeed quite large.

But they did guess some of it. This time, departments like the Beijing Post and Telecommunications did indeed make calls to the Hong Kong office, but they were worried that someone would use Zhao Shinan to cause trouble and block the Hong Kong Telecom acquisition, so they took action. Although Hong Kong had not yet returned, dealing with a Zhao Shinan didn't take much effort.

After flipping through these news reports, Li Dongling couldn't help but look at the newspaper when he saw another piece of news.

"The Carrian case, the largest fraud case in Hong Kong history, the defense lawyer for Carrian Chairman George Tan announced that George Tan accepted some of the charges.

The Carrian company involved over 10 billion HKD and is the most tragic case in Hong Kong investment history, involving the most investors. Three other criminal cases are also related to this case..."

Li Dongling saw the cover of the newspaper, which featured a man with an arrogant expression.

Li Dongling didn't expect to see the prototype of the movie "The Goldfinger" from his previous life. However, the investor of that movie in his previous life was exactly the person published in the newspaper now, which is equivalent to making a documentary about himself. This style of conduct can no longer be described as arrogant.

After looking at it for a few moments, Li Dongling flipped the newspaper over. George Tan didn't plead guilty early or late, but chose to plead guilty to a few insignificant charges at every critical juncture this year. At most, he would go in for a few years and then be able to run out again. It is obvious that he is afraid of Hong Kong's return, and if this case is truly investigated, who knows what shocking inside stories will be pulled out, so he wants to close the case hastily this year.

It's not just George Tan; there are many others who are like this, all wanting to settle their old accounts before Hong Kong's return to avoid being held accountable later!

By the time Hong Kong returns next year, all kinds of strange things in Hong Kong will start to emerge, and all kinds of monsters and demons will start their final madness.

The car drove on the streets of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is currently at the peak of urban construction. In places like Central and Victoria Harbour, various high-rise buildings stand in great numbers, and landmark buildings are constantly being built.

Personnel like Yang Zhi who came to Hong Kong for the first time saw large shopping malls on both sides of the street, and high-rise buildings that stretched as far as the eye could see. For people from the mainland, this kind of modern life in the 1990s was quite shocking. These skyscrapers that reached into the clouds hadn't even emerged in the mainland at this moment.

Now, people from the mainland, Southeast Asia, and even the United States, old Europe, etc., can't help but exclaim when they see these high-rise buildings in Hong Kong. Even in a convenience store in Hong Kong, people run in to snap up goods, buying big bags and small bags.

But having seen the scenes of domestic big cities in his previous life, Li Dongling was somewhat "accustomed" to these buildings in Hong Kong. In provinces like Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, if you pull out a single city, they all have their own landmark buildings.

Today, Li Dongling is going to visit Ning Wantian, the nominal head of the Ning family, in Hong Kong. As the largest partner of Dongling High-Tech in Hong Kong, it would be unreasonable for Li Dongling not to visit Ning Wantian when he comes to Hong Kong.

The car turned around on the streets of Hong Kong for a long time, and there were traffic jams from time to time, so one can imagine how many vehicles there are in Hong Kong at this moment.

Li Dongling specifically asked the driver sent by the Ning family to take a detour to the famous Kowloon Walled City... park, which is missed by countless Hong Kong movies, to take a look.

The Kowloon Walled City was leveled a few years ago, and a park was built on it. As for those who say they miss it, they are basically those who make movies or engage in art. People who moved away from here might occasionally miss their past life, but if you ask them to bring their whole family back to live, just see if they get anxious.

This is like African-American singers and ball stars from the slums of the United States who always like to talk about the hardships of their childhood and the difficulty of climbing out of the slums in the media to promote their inspirational experiences. They might even shout that if it weren't for the tempering of the past, they wouldn't have today, etc.

But if anyone dares to say, let him donate his family property to his African-American brothers and let him live in the slum community again, just see if he takes a Ruger pistol and sends a peanut to the person who said this.

As for those who miss it and want to live in the Kowloon Walled City, just find a broken urban village to experience it, and it's a super-shrunken, compact, and broken version, the kind where 40,000 or 50,000 people live on two acres of land.

A whole family of several people is squeezed into a place the size of a pigeon cage, cockroaches, mice, and all kinds of insects run all over the bed, mosquitoes accompany them every night, water and power outages are the norm, and there are only a few toilets that 40,000 or 50,000 people can nominally use. I don't know how people live there, but anyway, clothes get moldy after being left for a few days.

All kinds of gangs and societies run rampant inside. The price ordinary people have to pay to climb out is ten or a hundred times more than outside. Those who say gangs and societies are loyal are purely those who haven't experienced the beatings of society. If you expect hooligans to be kind, then hooligans wouldn't be hooligans in vain!

In Hong Kong movies involving the Kowloon Walled City, you will see a group of children or the protagonist climbing to the roof in the plot. Movie commentators will say this is heart-oriented to the light, sublimating the soul, etc. It's purely nonsense, because there is no sun in the Walled City during the day, and you can only see the sun by climbing to the roof!

Li Dongling only took a look at the Kowloon Walled City Park from the outside. After looking at it for a few moments, he took the car and rushed to the Ning family's villa.

"Mr. Li!"

When Li Dongling arrived at the Ning family, Lin Xianhui, the person in charge of the Dongling High-Tech Hong Kong company, had already been waiting there.

"Everything is ready!" Lin Xianhui said to Li Dongling. Besides preparing the gifts Li Dongling ordered, he also handed a document to Li Dongling, which was the investment company Li Dongling asked him to build in Hong Kong.