摘要
貌似神勇的地产商们,一向都是“四两拨千金”,然而日子并不总是那么如意吉祥。
In Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, a businessmanfrom Taiwan could play a real estate development projectnecessary forRMB2.8 billions investment with only RMB50 millions. The way heplayed the game was very simple: separating the project into differentsub-projects by dividing the 50 acres land he had managed to possessinto half dozen pieces. Then he first invested RMB50 mllions intodevelopment of a piece, and sold it to a buyer when its value had greatlyincreased. With the great profit, he began to develop second piece andsold it to a buyer again. He continued to play the game and got RMB800illions pure profit at the end. Zhang Xinhe, a developer at Beijing, was deeply moved by theabove 'Finding a Gold Mine' story. His imagination seemed he hadreturned to carly 1990s when Chinese developers could find many suchopportunities. They once were used to seeing only such businesses as'real estate businesses'. Today, however, the story of 'catching a wolfempty-handed' has bc-come more and moreunr pportunities forsome shrewd businessmenwith strong 'governmentonnections' in somemiddle and small cities. Insuch big cities as Beijing, however, developers can only sigh 'goldtimehas ended.' In fact, the event that Zhou Zhengyi was arrested early this yearis a watershed. Real estate businessmen now face a more and more tightenvironment. Above all, spring has been too long for them, and winterwould come inevitably.
