CHAPTER 62: CHAPTER 62: THE POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF JADE ISLAND!

For the world, the formal commercial use of flying cars is a landmark event, representing humanity’s official entry into the era of aerial transportation.

However, the impact it brings does not merely reside on the transformation of transportation tools.

The automotive industry encompasses a series of upstream and downstream industrial chains that complement it, and cars themselves are the integrated works of these entire industrial chains.

As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats, and a falling tide sinks all ships.

The profound transformation of transportation tools inevitably leads to the complete overhaul of the entire industrial chain!

Thus, early in the birth of flying cars, they caused significant disruption to the traditional automotive industry; stocks in major automobile sectors consecutively fell.

And after flying cars were officially put into commercial use in the five countries of the Middle East, the entire automotive industry’s stocks plummeted to the bottom, a bleak sea of green!

Such a painful result was unexpected by major car manufacturers.

In fact, when Jade Island debuted the flying car on the very first day, they were closely monitoring this product. Although they marveled at the powerful performance of this epoch-making technological product, a hint of skepticism lingered in their hearts.

This skepticism stemmed from their inertia.

According to the preconceived notion, they naturally believed that the birth of an epoch-making product was never a matter of overnight success but required years or even decades of refinement before being officially commercialized.

It is precisely this inertia that prevented them from timely recognizing the crisis of industry development, bringing a painful lesson to their enterprises.

Therefore, at this very moment, even though they are grinding their teeth over Jade Island’s technological product, they have no choice but to swallow their pride and request cooperation, hoping they won’t be capsized in this unanticipated wave of automotive industry transformation.

Under such circumstances, Jade Island’s flying car is temporarily in the spotlight, truly becoming red hot!

Major car manufacturers and even businesses related to the entire automotive industry’s upstream and downstream industrial chains are all extending offers of collaboration, even invitations for mergers, to Jade Island’s officials!

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While the external world is becoming chaotic due to the formal commercial use of flying cars, inside Jade Island remains a calm, orderly scene.

Regarding the cooperation requests from thousands of enterprises, Jiang Cheng, Mr. Li, and the other upper management of Jade Island did not completely ignore them; on the contrary, they highly valued cooperation with these relevant enterprises of the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

Because, flying cars as a product is merely at the starting point, and any technological product has to face the issue of upgrades and replacement upon its inception!

The contemporary technological development process has sufficiently proven this course.

Thus, even holding a mature technological product, Jiang Cheng is not self-satisfied; instead, he deeply realizes the importance of constantly accelerating innovation for technological development.

And wanting to upgrade products, inevitably involves cooperation with a multitude of enterprises.

Therefore, cooperating with these enterprises along the industrial chain is a necessary choice for Jade Island, but deciding which enterprises to collaborate with needs careful selection.

However, Jiang Cheng finds it difficult to muster interest in these tedious matters, so after expressing his development strategy, he once again plays the role of a hands-off boss, leaving Mr. Li and others to handle everything.

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Jade Island, Laputa City.

Nowadays, Laputa City has undergone a transformative change compared to a few months ago.

Within the city, various architectural and supporting facilities are increasingly complete, the population steadily grows, and the economy is booming.

In summary, everything, under the management of Mr. Li and other high-level managers, is progressing systematically.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng is standing inside a luxurious office on the highest floor of the "Endless Mansion," overlooking everything in Laputa City.

This office was specifically reserved for himself, offering a broad view and can be said to be the highest point of the entire Jade Island, providing a panoramic view of all the scenery.

Seeing everything on Jade Island developing in a positive direction, a strong sense of ambition flickers in Jiang Cheng’s eyes.

Who could imagine that this bustling city was still an untouched forest landscape just a few months ago!

Thinking about this, the corners of Jiang Cheng’s mouth lift slightly, revealing a satisfied smile.

Then, Jiang Cheng pulls out his phone and opens the Island Tycoon System.

After months of arduous development and construction, Jade Island’s entire appearance has taken on a brand new look, and all basic information sections have undergone transformative changes.

[Name]: Jade Island

[Location]: Western Pacific (N23°26′, E126°48′)

[Ownership]: Private territory

[Nature]: Habitable island

[Area]: 3620 square kilometers

[Population]: 56982

[Politics]: 1

[Economy]: 3

[Military]: 0

[Comprehensive Development Index]: 3.5 (Extremely low) (Maximum 100)

[Valuation]: 325 billion USD

Jiang Cheng’s gaze mainly focuses on several parameters.

Population, politics, comprehensive development index.

After such a prolonged observation, Jiang Cheng already has a very intuitive sense of the impact of these indices.

Firstly, population.

Population can be said to be the most crucial parameter of an island because, in certain ways, it represents the island’s vitality. Without enough population, the island becomes like water without a source, and everything on the island cannot operate.

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng had long recognized this point and implemented a talent recruitment plan from the very beginning, attracting a large number of high-tech talents to Jade Island.

Currently, these talents are already fully operational in various sectors; some have joined the management team on Jade Island, becoming the right-hand aides for Mr. Li and others, while some run various industries on Jade Island, bringing massive tax revenue to Jade Island.

In conclusion, it is precisely because of their presence that Jade Island’s economy is thriving.

Furthermore, there is politics.

In Jiang Cheng’s view, politics is essentially political influence.

And its improvement mainly stems from several reasons.

Firstly, Jade Island has just established formal organizational management structures, such as the Immigration Planning Bureau, granting Jade Island its first batch of governmental organizations, able to carry out external political affairs.

Secondly, Jade Island has successfully reached cooperation intentions with two major financial families from the United States, along with some international organizations, which dramatically enhances Jade Island’s political influence invisibly.

Thirdly, because of the external output of epoch-making technological products like flying cars, Jade Island has earned a massive amount of foreign exchange income, greatly enhancing its economic power, which naturally expands its political influence.

It is under the influence of these series of factors that Jade Island’s political parameter has jumped from 0 to 1.

However, this also illustrates how difficult it is to raise the political parameter.

Currently, Jade Island cannot yet be considered a complete region, hence it cannot showcase its influence globally.

But the impact of political factors on the valuation of Jade Island is still tremendously significant, even greater than the economy!

Therefore, to increase valuation, it is imperative to boost Jade Island’s political parameter more rapidly.

It is worth noting that, according to Jiang Cheng’s estimate, the future upgrading of the Island Master’s level will become increasingly challenging, even possibly reaching a trillion USD and above.

Such enormous figures evidently cannot solely rely on economic growth, thus, to unlock more black technology, Jiang Cheng must find ways to enhance Jade Island’s influence.

This is also the key focus in Jiang Cheng’s upcoming development plan!