Chapter 300 Precious Metal Banks and the Purchasing Boom
June 20th.
The precious metal bank, which had been in preparation for more than two months, was officially established within the Zhiren Company.
The business of this subsidiary is mainly to exchange precious metals and rare raw materials such as rare earths and helium.
Compared to pure gold, raw materials such as silver, platinum, rare earths and helium have more extensive industrial uses.
For example, the element rhenium is listed at 50 gold yuan per gram by the Precious Metals Bank.
However, the retail price of rhenium in China is only 50 yuan per gram.
For many people, this is a good opportunity to make a profit from the price difference. Even if China's rhenium price increases, it is still very attractive to many companies and individuals who need money.
The East Asian parties have not yet reacted.
Precious metal banks attract a large number of "tourists".
Flights from Guangzhou to Sing Tao, Thonburi and Manila were almost instantly sold out.
In order to prevent the outflow of gold, East Asian parties have lowered the limit on the export of gold. Currently, only 10 grams of gold can be carried out of the country at a time.
However, restrictions on other rare metals have not been introduced in time.
Many people took the opportunity to purchase various rare metals, then processed them into jewelry, watch straps, and buttons, and sold them to people who needed to go abroad.
At Sing Tao International Airport.
Several young people pulled their suitcases and headed straight to the Sing Tao Precious Metals Bank.
When they arrived at the Precious Metals Bank, they found that there were quite a few people queuing, so they quickly walked to the back of the line.
"It's too hot here," said one of the young men in a white shirt, fanning himself with a travel guide.
Another young man with dyed yellow hair waved his hands and said, "It's not bad! It's hard to make money now. If I buy a few more bottles of Langfu Anning, I can earn a few months' salary."
These young people were Chinese who worked as purchasing agents in Sing Tao before. When they saw the establishment of the precious metals bank, they immediately smelled a business opportunity.
After all, Langfu Anning 2nd generation is not available in China, and many patients need this drug, which gave rise to overseas purchasing agents.
However, due to the restrictions on the export of gold, many people did not have much gold in their hands, which greatly limited the scale of purchasing on behalf of others.
Now the emergence of precious metal banks has given many people the opportunity to exchange gold yuan.
After more than an hour, the people in white shirt, yellow hair and others finally arrived.
The man in white shirt pulled out a box of rhenium gold jewelry from his backpack, then some platinum jewelry and handed them directly to the inspector at the counter.
The inspector placed the jewelry in a mass spectrometer and quickly determined its composition and net content.
"572 grams of rhenium gold, 32 grams of rhodium gold, 24 grams of platinum... a total of 53,700 yuan. Do you have a bank account?"
The man in white shirt quickly took out his Aoba bank card.
After both parties completed the transaction, the man in white shirt, the man in yellow hair and others hurried to the local pharmacy.
These local pharmacies actually serve foreign tourists, and employees of the Sapiens company do not need to go to the pharmacy to buy medicines themselves.
In the drugstore, White Shirt and others met many colleagues. Not only Chinese people were purchasing on behalf of others, but also Japanese and Koreans.
In addition, the man in the white shirt also saw a dozen people with Latin American faces who were also purchasing various drugs. These people were purchasing agents for the Mexican mafia. The drugs they purchased were mainly for smuggling into North America.
"Langfu Anning...Huh? Why are there so many styles?" The man in white shirt was holding a bottle of Langfu Anning 3rd generation, which had just been launched on the market.
The salesperson not far away reminded me, "This is a new model, mainly for variants that have developed drug resistance. These variants are not popular in your area. You should buy the second generation! The price of the second generation has dropped. It now costs 300 yuan."
The man in white shirt was also familiar with the shopping guide, and he immediately took out 20 boxes of Langfu Anning.
There were four of them in their group, and each brought five boxes. They didn't dare to buy more than that, mainly because they were afraid of being checked.
"I really envy you. This medicine is only 20 yuan a box when it is prescribed in your hospital." The yellow-haired man was holding a box of Langfu Anning 2nd Generation.
The shopping guide smiled but said nothing. The company offers huge discounts to its employees in terms of medical services, which is one of the reasons why many employees would rather give up immigrating to Australia and Europe.
After all, although those developed countries claim to have free medical care, the problem is that one has to queue up for that free medical care, or one can only go to expensive private hospitals. If one does not purchase insurance, the cost of treatment in a private hospital can definitely break a middle-class person's bones.
Waiting in line for free medical treatment at public hospitals sometimes takes several months, which is really a deception.
If there is an emergency, there may be no one left in the queue.
It is different for the Zhiren Company. It only charges the cost price and labor costs to its employees.
Many of Sapiens' unique drugs are sold at very high prices overseas, but at very low prices internally.
For matters like surgical appointments, the medical department has a dedicated management office that can reasonably arrange surgical times based on the severity of symptoms.
In fact, the scale of Zhiren Company’s hospitals is very dense in some old districts .
For example, in Hongsavady District, out of a population of 56 million, there are 120,000 medical staff, about 200,000 standby medical staff, 450,000 general hospital beds and 45,000 ICU beds.
The scale is extremely large.
Moreover, the medical and nursing services of Zhiren Company are inseparable, that is, both doctors and nurses have the qualifications to practice medicine.
This is mainly due to the biochips of the new humans, which can quickly train professional doctors. The nurses in the hospital are naturally the first to get the upper hand. These caregivers have also acquired good medical skills through biochips and learning.
As for the backup medical staff, it is because institutions such as nursing homes, orphanages, kindergartens, sanatoriums, and rehabilitation centers have a large reserve of medical staff.
This situation has resulted in the Sapiens Company having sufficient medical resources and basically no need to worry about bank runs.
Sing Tao's medical resources were already sufficient, and became even more abundant after the takeover by Sapiens Corporation.
The yellow-haired man and the white-shirted man had been running around in Sing Tao and Hongsawadi before, so they were naturally aware of the benefits within the Zhiren Company.
If Huangmao didn’t think he could make a lot of money by purchasing on behalf of others, he would have wanted to join the Zhiren Company.
After purchasing Langfu Anning, they bought 8 boxes of Aiqingling. Recently, the price of Aiqingling has also dropped a bit, and a single box only costs 5,000 yuan.
They do not purchase Ai Qingling randomly, but find good customers in China and ask them to pay a deposit before they will purchase.
Otherwise, if you have to pay for this kind of expensive medicine which costs 5,000 gold yuan each, it will hurt your wallet.
The man in white shirt paid 46,000 yuan by swiping his card.
Seeing that there was still 8,600 yuan left in the card, the man in the white shirt suggested, "Let's go have a seafood dinner!"
"No, just eat ordinary steak. After all, making money is not easy." The yellow-haired man shook his head.
In the territory of the Homo Sapiens Company, the price of seafood is still quite high, especially those seafood products that are not artificially farmed, which are more than ten times more expensive than beef.
The man in the white shirt smiled and said, "The purpose of making money is to spend it. Today I will treat you."
"That's what you said." Huangmao certainly had no objection to eating for free.
Many of the overseas purchasing agents like them are international students, and many of them are quite lavish when it comes to spending on food, drink, entertainment, and recreation.
After all, people who can go abroad to study are often from families with certain assets.
After enjoying the seafood dinner, the group did not rush back to China, but sent the medicine back by mail . They had special personnel to pick them up in China.
This kind of overseas purchasing by Zhiren Company involves almost the whole world.
There are official purchasing channels like those in Saudi Arabia and Persia.
There are also private purchasing agents like White Shirt and Yellow Hair.
There are also smuggling channels like the Mexican gangs.
