Chapter 1748 Work Attitude
Han Xuan knew very well that this Qatar royal member named Althani came to Stark Building to gain investment. After all, it was not the first time he had met these Middle Eastern people. There were always people trying their best to get close to him and tried to ask Han Xuan to help develop his own country together. .
This is not Han Xuan’s narcissism, but after many such incidents have happened, he has already realized that since he decided to make a big investment in the emirate of Dubai, he has become a delicious bun in the eyes of leaders of some Middle East countries. In addition to Dubai, several other allies of the United Arab Emirates have also sent people to find him.
However, it is enough to have one or two modern tourist cities in the Middle East. Han Xuan had no intention of investing in other regions and rejected their investment advice in a tactful way. There is a golden bear sculpture with a respected two tons in the hall of the Alpha Building in Snow Mountain Four Towers. The appearance refers to the appearance of Winnie. It was a gift given to him by the senior management of the Abu Dhabi Emirate. This wealthy emirate is also the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The State of Qatar is close to the United Arab Emirates. Apart from yellow sand and camels, the only thing that people can remember is oil. In this good era when oil is equal to hard currency, these countries with a large amount of oil resources were almost no poor countries.
In addition, the sparse population has created a large number of wealthy classes. The quality of life of the locals may not be high, but they are definitely very rich. They are now keen on traveling and vacationing in the Maldives. More than 40% of the Maldives tourists are from the Middle East. They bring a lot of profits to Han Xuan every year. They stay in the best hotels on the island and take away a lot of luxury goods when they leave. In recent years, there are more and more tourists traveling, which is closely related to the Maldives' implementation of visa-free policy.
Oil resources are the advantage of those Middle Eastern countries. Not all countries like Mongolia like to lie on the rich natural mineral resources and live a hard life of lack of food and clothing. They cooperate with European and American countries and have long developed a large number of oil resources. In recent years, the leadership of these Middle Eastern countries has found that the economy built on oil is very unstable, so they are seeking transformation.
However, a small population and high wages mean that the light industry, economy, port and other industries were also first occupied by Dubai. The development of real estate is just a bubble economy, without other industries, and it will definitely leave a series of sequelae in the end.
Heavy industrial manufacturing is even more impossible. That area does not have much foundation in this area. Western countries have bypassed the Middle East when choosing regions to invest, because they have too few advantages. After thinking about it, only the tertiary industry can be developed, which drives shopping, real estate and other markets through the development of tourism.
Other investors do not plan to develop in the Middle East, and Han Xuan is no exception. If the Emirate of Dubai had not given him enough benefits and distributed shares in ports, airports and other industries, he would not have planned to invest too much money in Dubai.
Having shares in traditional Dubai industries means that the investment losses have decreased. Even if other parts of the investment cannot fully recover the costs, the industries in the Middle East, the largest port and the largest airport can also bring him a steady stream of returns, so he decided to invest in Dubai.
Not to mention that the Dubai Chief has agreed to divide a piece of land separately by the sea to develop the gambling industry for Han Xuan. This is the discount he promised to invest 10 billion US dollars within ten years, and he will only build this casino within ten years. This is the promise made by Prince Sayed on behalf of the Dubai royal family. Judging from their living customs, he has really made great concessions.
It is people who like to bet. This is a natural nature of human beings, but they were constrained by dogmatism in the later period. Judging from the large number of tourists and the wealthy population in the Middle East, Han Xuan is very optimistic about the future development of the casino. He plans to move Caesars Palace to Dubai, invest about 1.5 billion US dollars, and build a super luxury casino hotel, which is not far from the Sailing Hotel...
At this moment, Han Xuan sat face to face with Mr. Al Thani in a yellow robe. He was interested in asking: "Recently, the demand for oil in the world market has been rising, and prices have also continued to soar.
I remember that Qatar ranked third in the world in natural gas storage and ranked seventh in the world in per capita GDP last year. How is your domestic situation now?"
From the establishment of OPE until 1970, crude oil prices remained at the level of 1.8 to 2 US dollars per barrel, which shows that throughout the 1960s, the ability of OPE to control oil prices in the international oil market was insignificant.
Due to the Asian financial crisis, the decline in demand and the untimely increase in production, crude oil prices fell from around 24 US dollars per barrel in January 1997 to the lowest price of 9.2 US dollars per barrel in December 1998, and then rebounded from March this year, climbing all the way to the current twenty-six US dollars per barrel.
Han Xuan suddenly realized that the stage of oil price increase, which lasted for more than eight years, has begun now. The last month of the late 20th century was a good era when it began to enter the oil futures market. I can still remember the previous life before the 2008 Yanjing Olympics, the oil price was as high as 150 US dollars per barrel! And in a dramatic way, it fell to about 40 US dollars per barrel in just a few months. This was completely the "Internet industry bubble" of the oil futures market.
Having found another way to make money, Han Xuan couldn't wait to leave this matter to Star Investment to arrange it. The earlier he entered this market, the more money he could make. If he entered a year ago, he would make a lot of money. He was upset that he paid too little attention to the oil market.
Mr. Althani sighed deeply and said, "The residents of our country are rich, but they lack certain spirits of other countries, such as Americans, which makes me worry.
Work is a life attitude and a professional spirit. To be honest, I am so rich now that I can’t even put down my luxury cars at home. I even have three private jets and four wives.
Although I am not as rich as you, I am not short of money to spend. I still work for three hours a day, and sometimes work overtime, and I even work from nine in the morning to two in the afternoon.
Now we Qatar residents rarely have the same pragmatic spirit as me. We are busy sleeping with a few wives every day, alas~”
Han Xuan was stunned. He heard this slightly proud tone and was indeed struck by thunder...
Chapter completed!