"Mil Mill", the only recycling factory for paper-packed beverage boxes in Hong Kong, located in Yuen Long Industrial Estate, is facing forced eviction because it failed to renew the lease from the Science and Technology Park Company in charge of management.
Huang Keqiang, CEO of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation, refused to accept an interview with the commercial station today (28th), but said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program that the contract between the Science and Technology Park and Mil Mill is only three years. I am willing to "sit low" with the Science Park and the Environmental Protection Agency, and exchange fire in the air, which cannot solve the problem at all. However, the future development plan of the Mil Mill site has not been explained in detail during the interview.
Ye Wenqi, founder of "Mil Mill", pointed out that he has not given up, but if he really wants to move to the current location, he will need to stop accepting recycled drink boxes from next month.
He criticized that the Science and Technology Park went back on its word, but he had invested 10 million to set up a recycling site, describing it as having "washed his head" and had no choice. However, the Science and Technology Park dispatched a huge public relations team to attack. This is deeply helpless: "Actually, we are willing to sit low and lean all the way, but it is a matter of public relations to be tight at home, and if I go to talk to someone to listen to him and help me, he is actually tight. ? I'm so uncomfortable!"
▼The paper bag drink box recycling merchant Mil Mill was forced to move▼
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Huang Keqiang, CEO of the Science and Technology Park, said on the RTHK program in the morning that Mil Mill applied for a recovery fund of 3.5 million in 2018, and the Science and Technology Park allocated the land in the Yuen Long Innovation Park and leased it to the other party for three years in the form of a short-term lease. It is stated that it is a short-term lease, and the short-term lease from January 2019 to December 2021 is written very clearly.” He continued that he has negotiated with the other party two or three times in 2020, reminding the other party that the lease agreement will be one and a half years. After the expiry date, he “needed to find a place”, but last year, we learned that Mil Mill had not been able to find another place to set up a factory, so he extended the lease for one more year, believing that the other party should fulfill the “spirit of the contract”.
In other words, the three-year lease has helped him change for four years, and in fact, he was notified a year and a half ago, so I want to talk about the important thing, we keep saying that there is no "forced eviction". A word, this word is definitely not good.
Our department is constantly helping them.
Huang Keqiang, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
As for why the contract could not be renewed, he emphasized that Yuen Long Innovation Park has a development plan, which has been repositioned in the past two or three years. It is necessary to take back and do other things, including setting up a microelectronics center, a brewery, a pharmaceutical factory, a food factory, etc. In the process, he emphasized the need to "look forward" so that Hong Kong can promote innovative technology more quickly, but refused to respond to whether he refused to renew the contract because he disliked the dirtyness of the Mil Mill recycling center.
▼On September 27, the Science and Technology Park Company responded to the relocation of Mil Mill▼
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As for Mil Mill's request to renew the lease for another two or three years, Huang Keqiang immediately "dropped the gate": "We will try our best to help. From the perspective of the Science and Technology Park Company, to help him find a grace period, I personally think that it takes a few months. Possibly, but if it takes three years or one year, it will be difficult, impossible.”
He went on to point out that the EPD has extended a helping hand to find a way out for Mil Mill, "We suggested that this tenant should not lean in the air, but it's really up to us to sit down with the EPD to sit down and lean down. problem solved.”
I don't know what to do. If you can't even sit down and lean, how can you solve the problem?
Everyone is a person who does things, and the principal of this tenant is also a person with good education and business experience. I think everyone knows that the best way to solve problems is to sit low and not stand in the air. Speaking of degrees.
Huang Keqiang, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Ye Wenqi, the founder of "Mil Mill", said that if the relocation is to be arranged and all the inventory on hand is to be arranged, it is believed that the operation will be closed in October.
As for the future of the recycling yard, he is still discussing with his partner and making internal plans, emphasizing that he has no plans to give up, "We must persist until the last moment, when exactly (stop collecting the recycling drink boxes), it really depends on how little time we have. , we are really under a lot of pressure.”
Ye Wenqi also pointed out that when he negotiated the lease in 2018, he had stated that he would rent for three years. "If he told me about three years, I would not drop 10 million to invest." There is no clear statement that the lease must be terminated, only that the lease will be determined depending on the progress of the development.
Regarding Huang Keqiang's repeated requests for him to "sit low and lean", Ye Wenqi criticized the other party's "slingshots": "Actually, we are willing to sit low and lean all the way, but it is a matter of public relations means to talk to people. Listening to him help me, what is he really doing? I feel so uncomfortable!"
There are really not many choices I can choose. In fact, I always wait for her every time. I asked a helper. I had a meeting last Friday. The CEO (chief executive officer) asked me to have a meeting, and Yan Zhou called me personally. I went to the meeting at 6 o'clock in the dark at night, and I didn't show up. I asked other people to keep the content secret. If I stayed with him, I immediately issued a statement. I asked me to keep it secret. Looking for the day to hold a press conference, in fact, we are really helpless.
Ye Wenqi
He also criticized that the Science and Technology Park has not mentioned any plans after the land is recovered: "We are willing to sit and lean, but if you don't want to leave, I will be tied for three months (renew the lease), or if you want to Let me have a lot of information, explain it reasonably and then go into more detail, if you tell me, I will listen to your development blueprint, is it a piece of land to be demolished to bask in the sun?" He also pointed out that an engineer mentioned that he had cooperated with the Microelectronics Center. There is still a window period of two or three years for its completion. I don’t understand why the recycling yard should be driven away immediately. I hope the other party will explain clearly.
Mil Mill Disturbance｜EPA: Continue to liaise with Science Park and Miaofang to promote the progress of leasing issues Recycling Plant Mil Mill Lease expires, no way out Miaofang: Very disappointed with the meeting. The technology park kicked out the recycling plant Mil Mill. Lin Chaoying was kicked off the ground: The recycling plant could not be raised on the world stage. The recycling plant was forced to be relocated. The location of short-term rental sites has been approved as far, expensive, and fine recycling plants
