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Chapter 230 Who is wrong?

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    As Baker drove on Tsing Long Road, he felt that the number of vehicles on the road was obviously much more than when he went to cover the groundbreaking ceremony of the Lok Ma Chau Industrial Park two years ago.  ¡Ý?¡Î¡Ô¡ÊÍø¨R. Since the ownership of the New Territories is leased, the Hong Kong government has always been afraid that the country will take it back and has many concerns, so it has been unwilling to open it on a large scale, which has given the mainland governments an advantage.  In their plan, the New Territories is an isolation zone that separates Hong Kong from the mainland, a buffer zone for escape when the mainland comes over, and a supply base for rice and vegetables for Hong Kong citizens.  At that time, in the New Territories, roads along the highway were either barren mountains or fields, or patches of farmland.  Although the houses of the rural farmers we passed by could not be said to be dilapidated, they were not considered good either. Many of them were single-story bungalows, and the better ones were only two-story small buildings.  Occasionally there are some large manor-style buildings, which are also the residences of big landowners.  But this time he felt that there were great changes. First, the road was much wider and smoother.  There are currently only two channels connecting the mainland to urban Hong Kong, one is the Tai Po Highway on the east line and the other is the Castle Peak Highway on the west line.  Castle Peak Highway passes through Lok Ma Chau and San Tin, passes Yuen Long from the east, then passes through the Lion Rock Tunnel via the old roadbed of the current Yuen Long Highway, passes through Tsuen Wan and finally reaches Kowloon.  These two roads are mainly responsible for transporting fresh water purchased from the mainland to the urban area for daily needs.  Or the materials purchased from the mainland through Hong Kong are transported back to the mainland. Generally speaking, container trucks are mainly used and the quantity is not large.  Therefore, some sections of the road are simply one-way roads, and the road conditions are not very good. Many sections are just flat dirt roads. Íø.©ç. Nowadays, this road has changed a lot. The original dirt road has been turned into asphalt road, and cement pavement has been built in some areas, making driving much smoother.  The road has also been widened from two-way two-lanes and some one-way roads to two-way four-lanes, greatly increasing the traffic capacity.  The second thing is that there are more cars on the road.  The last time I came here, there were barefoot farmers and cattle walking on the road, and it took me half a day to see a container truck or bus passing by.  But this time there was constant traffic on the road, including container trucks, slag trucks, heavy-duty trailers carrying construction machinery, and buses.  From time to time, a motorcycle roars past from the opposite side or behind, with the accelerator accelerating.  Secondly, the bus stops have also become denser.  ??Bus stops that were rarely seen before have become very dense now, with basically one stop sign every kilometer.  From time to time, I see buses stopping by the roadside to pick up and drop off passengers.  The clothes of the passengers are much better than what I saw last time. There are fewer farmers wearing rustic homespun clothes and more city people are well-dressed.  Judging from their dark faces and big rough hands, they must be local farmers. Judging from their clothing, they are no different from city dwellers.  Another change is that the size of the farmland on both sides has been reduced, and some new small housing areas and industrial and commercial buildings have appeared.  Many farmlands may have just completed land acquisition and are undergoing land leveling work, and the remaining ridges can still be seen.  Construction machinery and construction workers were busy on the land. Bulldozers pushed down sections of field ridges, and rollers rolled behind them, flattening and compacting the loose ground.  ¡Ö¡Ý¡Í¡Ö¨QÍø¨Q¡Ô. In the past two years, two major projects, game consoles and portable recorders, have created four to five billion US dollars in direct income for Hong Kong every year, although a large part of it has been passed on as the cost of purchased components.  It was given to upstream manufacturers and flowed out of Hong Kong through banks, but in fact the funds remaining in the local area exceeded one billion.  The resulting associated marginal benefits exceeded HK$20 billion.  When the Hong Kong government officially made the decision to vigorously develop the electronics industry and opened several industrial parks, electronics companies from Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea moved in one after another.  The initial construction investment is huge, including building factories, renting office buildings, and recruiting workers.  When these new incomes are accumulated, the hot money flowing into Hong Kong has actually exceeded US$3 billion!  With a small market of only six million people in Hong Kong, three billion U.S. dollars, or 1.7 or 8 billion Hong Kong dollars, suddenly poured in. What a turbulent frenzy.  The total capital flows generated by the cement, steel, construction, finance, stock market, services and other industries driven by this are no less than 100 billion!  Stimulated by this hot money, Hong Kong's economy in the past two years can simply be described as hot. The stock market has hit new highs repeatedly, attracting many grandfathers and old ladies who never knew what stocks were into the stock market, and they have invested a lifetime of hard work in the stock market.  The savings that I had worked hard to save were also invested in the stock market, hoping that I could catch a ride and make a lot of money along the way.  With the economy so prosperous, the tax revenue received by the Hong Kong government is also rising.  With the money in hand, the government also spent the money to build more roads and subways and speed up the development of industrial zones in order to allow more high-quality enterprises to establish a foothold in Hong Kong. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?The outbreak of the war not only did not make the British Hong Kong authorities worry about the decline of the empire on which the sun never sets, but instead saw Britain's determination to defend its own rights and interests.  ¡Î?¡Ä¡Ý¨RÍø¡Ý¨R¡Î.©î©ç.©Òc©Ño¨pm The Falklands fell on April 3. On that day, for the first time after World War II, the British Parliament unanimously passed the decision to break off diplomatic relations with Argentina and go to war. It was led by Thatcher.  His wife formed a wartime cabinet and showed a tough attitude that would never admit defeat.  On the same day, a task force was formed to conduct an expedition to the Falklands and announced a sea and air blockade of the two hundred nautical miles surrounding the Falklands.  The task force lived up to expectations. It was established on the 3rd and went to sea separately on the 5th with its ships and civilian ships scattered in various places.  In just a few days, the civilian ship completed the conversion into a troop transport ship and a hospital ship.  During the long journey of 13,000 nautical miles, the fleet not only realized the centralized and unified command authority, but also formulated a combat plan, completed the battle order formation, and also conducted several combat exercises. The efficiency was so high that people vaguely saw the days of the past.  Do not fall into the empire's powerful mobilization and organizational capabilities.  As the most important colony of the British Empire in the Far East, the British Hong Kong authorities and Hong Kong citizens are extremely concerned about this war.  When I saw the efficient mobilization level of the British Navy on TV, four days after the declaration of war, a submarine rushed to the war zone and began to implement the blockade order. In just three days, a civilian ship was converted into a hospital ship, and the grouping and actual combat drills were completed during the journey.  , everyone was moved by it.  When the task force arrived at the Falklands in late April, special forces parachuted down to find out the defense of the Afghan army. On the third day, the fleet set out, on the fourth day it recovered the South Island, and on the seventh day, the entire fleet arrived at the Falklands and began to implement the blockade.  This overwhelming offensive, combined with the modern three-dimensional combat mode integrating the sea and the sky, was edited and broadcast publicly through TV screens around the world. This showed the muscles of the United Kingdom to the world and told all countries: Although we have declined, we are no matter where we are.  No matter where, no matter how far away from the mainland, as long as anyone dares to infringe on the interests of the British Empire, we will still not hesitate to fight and win!  This is the symbol of a strong country.  Net. ©à The UK¡¯s unusually tough attitude has given the British Hong Kong authorities a shot in the arm. They are even more confident that the UK will be able to keep Hong Kong, the Pearl of the Orient.  We are more determined to further open up Hong Kong and vigorously develop the electronics industry.  Even the Hong Kong stock market, which had already reached a high point and was unable to continue, rose sharply again and set a new record because of the great power displayed by Britain during the Falklands War.  The Hong Kong government¡¯s determination to open up the New Territories has never wavered.  In late April alone, there were 12 pieces of industrial land for public auction by the Hong Kong government, 25 pieces of supporting residential land, and 18 pieces of commercial land, with a total scale of more than 4,000 acres, nearly three square kilometers.  .  In imperial terms, it amounts to more than 30 million square feet.  After completing the first phase of construction, the three industrial parks of Dapu, North District and Shatin have successfully completed the highway reconstruction and expansion, water, electricity and communication supporting projects, and have entered the stage of substantial development.  This is only the second phase of the plan, and there will be three and four phases of the plan in the future, striving to build three new central urban areas and seven satellite cities in the New Territories, resettle three million people, and become the source of power for Hong Kong's future economic growth.  Driven by this comprehensive development, a large amount of funds have been transferred from the south to the north, and various newly started plots of land have sprung up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a rain.  With the completion of the reconstruction and expansion projects of Tsing Long Highway and Yuen Long Highway, the northwest corner has also become a hot spot.  When Baker drove to the intersection of Tsing Long Highway and Castle Peak Highway, turned north into San Tin, and drove towards Lok Ma Chau, he felt something different.  For Hong Kong, Lok Ma Chau is a very special place.  Lok Ma Chau is the lowest-lying area in Hong Kong. Along the Shenzhen River, the lowest altitude is less than one meter and the highest is more than ten meters.  However, during the rainy season, a large amount of rainwater flows down from the mountainous areas, and then flows into the Shenzhen River through Lok Ma Chau and flows westward into Shenzhen Bay.  Long-term rainwater accumulation has turned this area into a wetland overgrown with weeds.  At the same time, it is also a famous forbidden area!  In order to cut off the connection between Hong Kong and the mainland and prohibit mainland residents from entering, the Hong Kong government has classified this narrow strip of land as a restricted area, with watchtowers set up and patrolled by military police armed with live ammunition. No one is allowed to enter or exit.  Once someone sneaks across, the military and police have the power to shoot them.  The last time Baker came, all he saw was a tidal flat full of waterlogged weeds.  But on the other hand, among the four electronics industrial zones planned by the Hong Kong government, the Lok Ma Chau Industrial Zone is the largest.  According to the agreement reached with Guan Fei, the Hong Kong government designated the entire area on the south bank of the Shenzhen River and west of the Lok Ma Chau Loop, one kilometer wide and 4.2 kilometers long, as industrial land for the Lok Ma Chau Electronics Industrial Park.  The total area of ??the park reaches 4.2 square kilometers and 420 hectares of land.?.  If you convert it into the imperial units commonly used in Hong Kong Island, it is about 1,040 acres, 45 million square feet!  ¡°Never before has a real estate developer on the island been able to acquire such a large piece of land at once.  The Hong Kong government will generously hand over this land to Guan Fei, which is naturally not a sign of goodwill.  They have conducted many field surveys on this land and found that the terrain here is too low-lying. However, during the rainy season, a large amount of rain and flash floods pour down from the south.  At high tide, seawater will pour in, soaking this long and narrow area in water.  It is extremely difficult to effectively open such a place.  Especially in summer, it is humid and can easily cause damage to delicate electronic products. It is definitely not an ideal location for an industrial park.  The Hong Kong government is happy to see Guan Fei trapped on this piece of land and constantly consuming its financial strength.  The larger the plot, the more funds will be spent on renovation and the longer the construction period will be.  The harsh natural conditions make the construction cost of the factory higher and the equipment maintenance cycle shorter, making it inherently one step behind others in the subsequent competition.  Guan Fei is willing to choose this place as the location of the industrial park. They are happy before it is too late and will not stop him.  ¡°Anyway, they can¡¯t find a worse place than Lok Ma Chau on Hong Kong Island.  In terms of its value, it is just a restricted area that blocks the exchanges between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is a piece of wasteland that has not been opened before. They do not feel heartache if it is closed.  Although it was later discovered that he was deceived, Guan Fei was not an agent of the mainland at all. The Hong Kong government was so angry that they scolded the liar. Thinking about it, they had nothing to lose. They also obtained a complete set of technology and patent authorization for the portable recorder from the other party.  After all, I still have a greater advantage, and I feel more balanced mentally.  But the facts proved that they were wrong again
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