Hu Mei got up the next day and drove back to Yanjing to reunite with her family.

Chen Huai, Cheng Yi, Song Hongjun, Yao Ying, Sun Yalin, Yang Haipeng’s family of three, Yao Ronghua’s family of three stayed in Shimen for two days; Ji Chengxi also sent a car to invite everyone to Qinghe to talk to each other, but arranged a special plane in Qinghe to send everyone to northern Yunnan to visit the graves.

In 1998, in addition to Yangang's 3 million ton new factory project in Jihe New District, Rongxin Group also launched a factory expansion plan based on the original foundation of Shimen Steel Group, with a planned investment of 2 billion to expand the production capacity of Shimen Steel to 2 million tons. In addition, Luangang Group, which ranked before Meigang in China, the steel production capacity of Hebei Province will reach 167 million tons in 1999, becoming the second largest steel province in China.

The Shanxi coal east-to-south line system project, including Jihe New Port and Shanxi Railway, entered the climax of construction in 1998 after receiving relatively effective construction funds. A series of major projects such as the Tianjin-Qing Expressway and Shiqing Expressway were launched, which played a great role in bringing strong economic growth to Hebei Province, especially in the southern Hebei region.

Nearly half of these projects were directly promoted by Chengwenguang. The acquisition of construction funds depends on Chengwenguang's powerful skills, which plays a crucial role in Chengwenguang's establishment of a firm foothold and gaining reputation in Hebei Province.

In 1998, Yexin Bank provided loans of 1 billion yuan for projects such as the South Jinnan Line, Shiqing Expressway, and Tianjin-Qing Expressway. In addition to directly responsible for the construction of the Jihe Steel Logistics and Processing Park and Comprehensive Terminal Project, Meigang also injected 200 million yuan into the South Jinnan Line project in the form of purchasing corporate bonds.

The first phase of the Shanxi Coal East-delivery Line project, in addition to the heavy-duty railway in southern Shanxi, with an annual throughput capacity of 40 million tons of coal transportation comprehensive port, the annual coal production capacity of Jinnan Group will also increase to 40 million tons simultaneously, which requires huge investment.

Sufficient capital injection is the basic guarantee for the rapid promotion of the project. In order to complete the project in advance by two thousand years, the Ji family and Jinnan Group still need to raise 8 billion construction funds to invest.

With such a large amount of capital demand in a short period of time, the local financial resources cannot be drained, so the Ji family and the senior management of Jinnan Group can only raise them through multiple channels.

Ji Chengxi went to Qinghe to work in 1995, and now it is the fourth year. He first served as the secretary of the Jihe County Party Committee, and then served as the deputy secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee, deputy mayor and mayor. Among domestic department-level cadres, Ji Chengxi, 35, is already the youngest group of people.

After Ji Chengxi was transferred to Qinghe as mayor, Jihe also abolished the county and changed it to Jihe New District and upgraded it to a national economic development zone. From this, we can see the influence of the Ji family - but the influence of the Ji family in the fields of industry, economy and finance is still relatively weak; Ji Chengxi hopes that Yexin Bank and Meigang will provide more construction funds for the development of the Jihe New District than last year for the Jinnan Line.

Over the past year, Yang Haipeng has mainly been in Qinghe and Shimen, the steel logistics and processing park, and the comprehensive wharf is built in Qinghe Jihe New District. He has more time in Qinghe and is considered half a landlord when he goes to Qinghe. Yu Wenfei of Jingrui Group is also an acquaintance, and his daughter Yu Wenli is a classmate of Cheng Yi during her study in the UK. As well as Tan Shiwei and Tan Jun and his daughter also celebrate the Spring Festival in Qinghe this year. It is even more lively after everyone arrives at Qinghe.

However, Chen Huai accompanied the two old men to northern Yunnan and swept the tombs for his mother, and then rushed back to Donghua. Donghua was the hometown where the ancestors borrowed their ancestors, which was the focus of the two old men's trip. At that time, Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi would also take other Sun family members to fly over from France and Hong Kong to meet, so everyone stayed in Qinghe for a day.

When I went to northern Yunnan to visit the graves, there was no need to accompany me. In other words, Chen Huai, Cheng Yi and his entourage accompanied the two old men to northern Yunnan, and the others made an appointment to see each other in Donghua.

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When Chen Huai's mother Chen Guixiu passed away, the political environment in China was not good at that time, and the Chen Shan and his wife were also tortuous. After the Sun family entrusted countless relationships overseas, they went abroad in a mess. They even failed to take Chen Huai out that year. At that time, they just hurriedly dug a lonely grave in the bamboo forest behind the thatched hut to bury the body.

After eighteen years of change of things, people have been looking for it. The huts, bamboo forests, and lonely graves of that year have long been flattened to build four fundraising houses for the employees of the farm. A farmers' market is also built in the place where the bamboo forest is located, and the scene of the year has long been no longer found.

Chen Huai accompanied his grandfather and grandma stayed in northern Yunnan for three days, found the local government and found his neighbors at that time. However, after several inquiries, someone remembered that there was an lonely grave here, but no one remembered that when the farm built a fundraising house on the flat ground, the remains of the lonely grave were thrown away.

This incident also had a great blow to the two old men. Seeing that northern Yunnan was so poor, they only donated one million yuan to the Lian Farm where they lived in that year to renovate the dangerous houses of several primary schools that were about to collapse. Everyone was in a desolate mood and flew back to Donghua.

Fortunately, I flew back to China by a special plane from France and did not experience too many uproars on the journey. The two old men could still hold on, but their energy was extremely poor.

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On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Sun Qishan, Sun Qiyi and others transferred from Hong Kong to Donghua.

There were more than 20 people who were the same generation as Chenshan who came to Donghua with Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi.

The Sun family belonged to the generation of uncle Chen Huai. Most of them were gray-haired and at least 60 years old. They moved overseas to settle before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Although few people have come back in the past twenty years, they still have some thoughts about their hometown. This time, they are also organized by Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi. The older generation of the Sun family are still alive in the world, so they all come back to see it this time.

Although many of Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi's generation were born in China, they were young before leaving the country and had little memory of their hometown. They were busy with work. Apart from being able to escape and accompany the elderly back home, few people participated in this visit to their relatives.

When it comes to Chen Huai, Sun Yalin is younger, and no one else comes back with her this time.

However, Chen Huai's purpose this time is also to hope that grandma and grandfather's generation of the Sun family can return to China to visit relatives. Although grandma and grandfather's generation of the Sun family are almost not in management positions in industrial departments such as Changqing Group and BNP Paribas, as long as they are not alive and have not passed away, the old people who can really determine the development direction of the Sun family fund and Changqing industry.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Sun family had great business in Donghua, and its branches and leaves were prosperous.

The city steel mill was expanded on the basis of the iron mill left by the Sun family in its early years; Chen Dan’s Shangxi Garden was also the renovation of the yarn mill warehouse left by the Sun family back then.

In the Sunjiatai Village where Meixi’s old house is located, many families with the Sun family are considered distant tribes of the Sun family. However, if they have been together, they may have to go out for five or six generations.

The three brothers of the Sun family in their early years, Sun Yaoting, also served as vice chairman of Huaihai Province.

The Republic of China mansion that Chen Dan bought on Yiyuan Road in Xucheng was the residence of Sun Yaoting and his family when they worked in Xucheng. It was Sun Yalin who asked him to find out that it was the old house of his great-uncle, Sun Yaoting, and then he asked Chen Dan to buy it and transform it into a branch of Shangxiyuan in Xucheng.

The Sun family had no intention of returning to Donghua to invest. Changqing Group and Haifeng Industrial first directly invested in the mechanical and electrical company in Meixi Industrial Park, with a scale of only 20 million. Sun Yalin said it well, people are always nostalgic. Sun Yaoting's children are also rich in population, and there are three of them with their uncles. Xu Cheng's old house was first taken to wait for them to return to their roots. They can always make an extra note of them.

Most of the Sun family’s old houses in Donghua have become historical relics. After the reform and opening up, local governments attached importance to investment promotion. Considering the Sun family’s influence overseas, the city has strengthened its efforts to protect the Sun family’s old houses.

Today, Wenshan Park and Nan Park in the city are all expanded on the basis of Sun Jia Private Park; the pagoda garden built by the Sun family in the early years behind Tianning Temple is now also the most famous pagoda cemetery in Donghua City.

For many elderly people in the Sun family, half a century has passed in a blink of an eye, and many people revisit the old place, picking up the childhood half a century ago, and the memories of the youth are all full of tears.

Looking at these scenes, the desolate mood brought by Shen Huai and Northern Yunnan was much diluted.

"It seems that your little thoughts will be reassuring again..." Sun Yalin did not go to northern Yunnan together, but moved from Qinghe to Hong Kong to pick up the elderly from the Sun family to Donghua. During the Spring Festival, most of the staff took vacations at home, and Sun Yalin also found enough people to help arrange the food and daily life of a large group of people, otherwise she would have to help her father and a large group of elderly people in the Sun family. These days it has been very hard.

After hearing what Sun Yalin said, Shen Huai just smiled.

When he heard that his grandfather and grandma came back to China to celebrate the Spring Festival, he asked Sun Yalin to arrange for the elderly from the Sun family to visit relatives, and he did have the intention to guide the investment focus of the Sun family and Changqing Group back to China.

Since the 1970s, Changqing Group has begun to invest in the Asia-Pacific region, and has accumulated and controlled various assets in the Asia-Pacific region for more than 20 years, with nearly US$2 billion in control.

This looks pretty considerable, but compared with the 10 billion US dollars of assets controlled by the Sun family in Western Europe, the figure is still very small.

Changqing Group's investment in the Asia-Pacific region was mainly concentrated in Southeast Asia and Japan and South Korea in the early stage, and it was forced to transfer domestically on a large scale after the outbreak of the Asia-Pacific financial crisis.

Even so, Changqing Group's direct investment in the country is less than US$600 million.

Shen Huai hopes that the investments directly involved in Changqing Group in China should account for one-third or even more of the assets controlled by the Sun family.

Although Sun Qishan is more optimistic about domestic investment opportunities, and most of his personal capital has participated in the construction of a series of industrial projects of the Meigang Group through Zhongxin, Sun Qishan himself only represented the Sun Family Fund to join the board of directors of Changqing Group. It is difficult for him to make his personal voice on major issues such as the adjustment of Changqing Group's investment strategy direction.
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