Back in Xiangjiang, it is already mid-May, and Xiangjiang’s real estate has entered the final stage of madness, with various records being refreshed crazily:
The 330 residential units in East Point City, Tseung Kwan O, received multiple registered subscriptions within three days, breaking the highest registered subscription record in Hong Kong's history, with oversubscription of 88 times, and frozen funds of HK$9.5 billion.
The Entertainment Building was sold for HK$3.96 billion, with a unit price of NT$22,000 per square foot, setting a new office sales record.
In early March, Sino Land and its major shareholder, the Wong family, acquired a piece of non-industrial land in Siu Sai Wan, Chai Wan, for a high price of 11.82 billion, setting a record for Hong Kong government land auctions (excluding bids).
The British Hong Kong government, which was facing retreat, sold two plots of land in Stanley's Wong Ma Dao Jin and Kowloon's Wan Hai Street for 5.5 billion and 6.06 billion respectively.
Crazy real estate records have been refreshed one after another, and Xiangjiang's city has reached its highest peak.
With such a good market, New Era Group's shipments are naturally a success, and the price is very ideal.
Take the four buildings of Legu Real Estate acquired in the late 1980s. At that time, the cost price was only HK$1 billion. Including the later merging and reconstruction, the total investment was just over HK$3 billion; but now, the four buildings
A total of 10.8 billion Hong Kong dollars were sold, which can be said to be a huge profit.
The same is true for the Entertainment Building. During the 1987 stock market crash, it was only worth 400 million Hong Kong dollars. It later cost 500 million Hong Kong dollars to rebuild, and the total cost was only 900 million Hong Kong dollars. It was sold for 3.96 billion Hong Kong dollars. The increase was so huge that it was staggering.
Not to mention, the rental income collected over the years has been amazing.
Within five months, New Era Group cashed out 5 buildings, 3 shopping malls (two more are being prepared for sale), and three mid-level luxury projects (there is also No. 1 May Road in preparation), making a profit of nearly 30 billion
;
At the same time, New Era Group received almost nothing from the official land auction;
There were various signs that New Era Group was "valuing" the Hong Kong property market. For a time, the media reacted one after another and began to report on New Era Group's actions.
When New Era Group announced that it had acquired a 16.3% stake in the Danshui River Valley in Brazil at a price of HK$10.2 billion and entered the field of mineral investment, the media in Hong Kong was in an uproar.
Many media wanted to find out the news, and finally Chen Bin, the president of New Era Group, came forward and accepted a simple interview.
It’s still a cliché:
"For New Era Group, Xiangjiang is too small, so it is inevitable to seek global investment."
"Judging from New Era Group's previous overseas investment projects, they are undoubtedly very successful."
"Xiangjiang is still the base camp of New Era Group, and the group has no intention to reduce its investment in Xiangjiang. Taking the International Financial Center as an example, the entire project investment is as high as 46 billion Hong Kong dollars, and New Era Group holds 60% of the shares. This investment alone is huge. Still
There is investment in Cyberport..."
Although there are some loopholes, the cities and towns in Xiangjiang still go their own way and have not restrained themselves because of New Era Group's abnormal behavior. What's more, in the eyes of some people, New Era Group is just 'not chasing highs'
That's all.
New Era Group.
Chen Xiaofen came to Lin Zuhui's office to report on the work situation.
"Boss, No. 1 May Road will be sold later this month, leaving the two best units."
Of course, Lin Zuhui wants to keep the two largest and best units for future use. The same is true for Tower 2 of Diligende Tower, leaving two top-floor duplex units.
The other two mid-level luxury projects have no residential units left and are all sold out.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said with satisfaction: "The progress is good! Where are the other residential projects?"
Chen Xiaofen said: "The situation is also very good. By the end of June, I am confident that 5,000 residential units will be sold, accounting for 80% of the full-year sales target."
In fact, there is such a situation in Hong Kong: In May last year, the Hong Kong government released an information - during the period from January 1994 to May 1996, 62 residential properties were approved by the government to sell off-plan properties, which can provide residential properties.
There are more than 40,000 units, but as of May 1996, only 40% have been launched on the market, and the remaining 60% have either not been launched or are reserved for internal subscription.
In other words, many real estate developers may have properties that are not for sale, so they are holding onto the property to collect rent, or they may choose an opportunity to resell it.
Now that the market is so good, New Era Group doesn't care so much. It completed 5,000 residential units in the first half of the year, which is obviously a "dumping" (it plans to build 6,200 residential units for the whole year).
Of course, the current gap in the property market in Xiangjiang is huge, and it can be absorbed even if tens of thousands of residential units are launched. Assuming that there is not a financial crisis in Southeast Asia, the bubble in Xiangjiang will not burst so quickly.
Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said: "This progress is not bad, but we will try to sell another 1,200 units in July and August to achieve this year's goal ahead of schedule."
Chen Xiaofen has already guessed some of the boss's thoughts. Probably the boss thinks that the property market in Hong Kong has risen too fast and is about to enter a period of adjustment, so it sells out in advance. Of course, as for the financial crisis, even those closest to Lin Zuhui will not
Guess it.
"no problem!"
After Chen Xiaofen left, Lin Zuhui showed a smile. It felt so good to know the historical trend.
New Era Group has not only cashed out office buildings, shops, and residences at high prices, but also has been striving to sign long-term contracts on rents in the past year. Of course, they are trying their best to sign long-term contracts, which is not mandatory.
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Media Building.
Lin Zuhui sat in the office and listened to the work reports of the presidents of the four major subsidiaries of Wanhui Media Group. He was very satisfied with the results.
Currently, Wanhui Media has four major businesses: media, animation, games, and software.
The media department is a long-established business. Although Hong Kong went through the "media war" in 1995, the paper media collapsed. However, Wanhui Media is still the largest media group in Hong Kong. It owns the number one sales volume of "Tian Tian Daily" in Hong Kong and the sales volume of professional newspapers.
The second-ranked "Economic Daily", the intellectual "Ming Pao", the best-selling magazine "Men's Wear" and many other best-selling print media.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The animation department, with four big IP Japanese comic style comics, as well as the new best-selling comics that followed, Wanhui Comics has become famous in the world, and has also led to
The transformation and progress of the entire Xiangjiang comics industry.
The game department has produced many classic works, including: "Pokémon" series, "Resident Evil" series, "Legends", "Age of Empires", etc. The entire game department has as many as 500 employees, making it the world's leading game department.
A very famous game company in Shanghai.
The development of the software department is even more impressive. Currently, the number of employees has reached 1,000. In addition to developing software, it also conducts outsourcing business.
When Luo Bencheng, the president of the comics division, finished reporting the work, Lin Zuhui handed him a piece of paper and said: "Someone gave me an idea and hoped that Wanhui Comics would complete it into a complete work. You can organize a project team."
Luo Bencheng was ecstatic in his heart. You must know that Wanhui Comics's achievements today are absolutely important to the four big IPs appointed by the boss. Although, in recent years, there have been some good works and some achievements have been achieved overseas.
But the four major IPs are like gods, although these four IPs are also divided into small and large gods.
"No problem, now we have a lot of talents, and local talents are enough to complete it!" Luo Benzheng said with confidence.
Lin Zuhui nodded, he also knew that Xiangjiang has been flooded with many local "Japanese comic style" writer-level talents in recent years, especially the three major serial IP works, all of which have local writers and screenwriters. These three major IPs have one characteristic, that
It was released in the name of the studio, and it did not highlight any one person. This was also considering the sudden death of the Japanese main writer. Of course, there has been no dispute yet. Probably the Japanese main writers also knew that Wanhui Media started
Just let them work.
Luo Benzheng looked at the information on the paper and suddenly fell into it.
""Death Note", mystery style comics..."
There is not a lot of information, and Lin Zuhui doesn't want to rack his brains to recall "Death Note", so he can just come up with a general style; whether he can surpass the original work in his previous life is not that important anymore, the important thing is to take this IP as his own
have.
Finally, Lin Zuhui said: "The core focus is still on the serialization of "Detective Conan", "Pokémon", and "One Piece". These three big IPs are enough for us to eat for a hundred years, so we need to pay attention to them.
"
The peripherals of the animation industry are really huge, including theater versions, movies, figures, toys, T-shirts, etc. Wanhui Comics' annual net profit is as high as about 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. This is also the reason why piracy is rampant.
Luo Benzheng nodded and said, "Okay!"
Next, the person who came in was the game department—Gao Kelin, the president of The9.
In the United States, a game studio only has 20 or 30 people, while The9 has 500 people, which is a strong force. Of course, many of them are fresh graduates who have just graduated from Xiangjiang, and The9 only recruits and trains them.
That's all.
There are many people, but they are not idle. The9 has many tasks and projects. In order to achieve better sales, the company divided the game department into: console/handheld game department and PC game department, a total of two
Large departments; and under the two major departments, there are many working groups.
"Boss, the sales volume of "Age of Empires" in the United States has exceeded 1.3 million, and the total global sales volume is 3 million units."
Lin Zuhui said in a good mood: "Okay, this result is better than the "Warcraft" of our brother company Blizzard Entertainment!"
Gao Kelin nodded and said: "The growth rate is indeed faster than that of "Warcraft", but the pricing is quite different, but I believe that the global sales volume must be much higher than that of "Warcraft"."
Lin Zuhui nodded. He has four companies that develop games, namely: Mainland Kingsoft (auxiliary business), Blizzard Entertainment, Activision, and The9.
Among them, Blizzard Entertainment still follows the development trend of the previous life, such as the "Warcraft" series, the "Diablo" series, and the "StarCraft" series;
At Activision, Joseph Lam added "Counter-Strike" and "The Sims" to this company, especially "The Sims", which was the best-selling PC game in its previous life. It is said that all versions have sold hundreds of millions of units.
Kingsoft, with the advice of Matrix Partners, Rebus established a game business department and successively developed "Zhongguancun Revelation" and "Sword and Fairy".
The9 has developed too many games. "Age of Empires" has entered the research and development stage in 1995. It was officially released in the United States through Activision last Christmas. It has since been released in Japan, Mainland China, South Korea, and Hong Kong.
It is being released gradually in other regions.
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This game that should have belonged to Microsoft was cut off by Lin Zuhui.
"How is the progress of the online version of "Legend"?" Lin Zuhui asked again.
As early as last year, "Legend" had already released a PC version, aiming to grab the copyright first. However, the online version is limited by the current network speed, and has been working hard to promote it.
Lin Zuhui remembers that in his previous life, this year the world's first online game "Ultana Online" appeared.
"It was officially released this summer, but this version is a bit rough, and the quality is very different from the PC "Legend". But don't worry, boss, the version of "Legend" will continue to be updated until it reaches the state you mentioned!"
Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "Very good, let's make a rough test first, and then slowly update the version later!"
"Yes, many technologies have not yet been implemented, but we already have plans, so we are very confident in being the world's leading game developer!"
It is true that technologies such as siege, monster killing, pK, and thousands of people online will be difficult to implement technically for a while; however, network technology has developed rapidly in recent years. The previous life "Legend 1" had already appeared at the end of 1998. Of course
Well, the real famous one is "Legend 2", which was not officially launched until 2000.
Lin Zuhui said: "Yes, we have 500 R&D personnel, and we must make full use of them. Online multiplayer online games are a major trend in the future game industry, so we must maintain the world's leading position in this...
"
In this life, he must stop the development trend of Korean games and make Kim Dazhong's so-called "cultural nation building" a "joke." At least, the mainland will represent a large number of online games in Hong Kong.
"Well, we have divided our R&D staff into a 'studio' model and implemented an internal incentive model. I believe we will create more and more classic games."
In fact, Gao Kelin is very curious and has not yet submitted a game to his boss because the idea is so good. For example, in "Legend", although many technologies have not been realized yet, he believes that in two years at most, all technologies should be realized.
After Gao Kelin left, Lin Zuhui wrote "Miracle mU" on paper. Unfortunately, he only played Legend at that time and didn't play this game much. However, Lin Zuhui had no intention of relying entirely on himself.
His idea is that since 1998, The9 has developed at least five online games at the same time, including "Legend of Blood" and "Miracle mU". As for the other three, the company has independently developed them.
After the turn of the millennium, games such as "Audition", "MapleStory", "Kart Runner", "Dungeon Fighter", and "Cross Fire" will be developed one after another.
Of course, what Lin Zuhui is confident about is not his memory, but The9's accumulated strength in games. For these games, even if he has played them for a while, his memory is still incomplete and can only be used as a reference for the R&D team.
The advantages of The9 are its exquisite graphics (inheriting the drawing skills of Wanhui Comics), strong technology (accumulated over the years), and wide distribution channels (Activision is a large game publisher, and Kingsoft is also an agent in the mainland).
Finally, in early 1998, Hong Kong listed "establishing a cultural port" as a major policy, which will definitely bring greater development opportunities to the game industry in Hong Kong.
The last president who came in to report was Liu Songcheng, president of Netflix Software.
The reason why Netflix Software has thousands of employees is because Netflix Software has entered the "software OEM" model. At the same time, Netflix Software has also developed a large number of software, such as Icq, stock trading software, music software, and Sitong
Smart card systems, as well as YAhoo (Xiangjiang), Netflix software also provide corporate Internet services, helping companies open Internet businesses, etc.
In short, Lin Zuhui is not worried about losing money by raising so many people. The Icq software alone is currently worth 800 million US dollars!
In fact, Netflix software not only does not lose money, but also makes good profits.
We have just signed a 150 million yuan contract with the smart card company under the subway company, that is, the "smart payment system" contract. At the same time, this business can also be developed overseas and inland, which is a huge cake.
After listening to Liu Songcheng's report, Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "The development is good! By the way, I plan to build a portal for the Greater China region to provide "knowledge of Chinese affairs" information for the overseas world, and provide information for the Greater China region and overseas
Global Chinese in the Chinese-speaking community provide "Chinese fashion life" and e-commerce services, including tourism, culture, science, academics, art, fashion, games, news, sports, entertainment and other projects... You first prepare the project team
, I hope the product will be on the market next year!”
Although YAhoo's business in Hong Kong is managed by Netflix software, it is someone else's website after all. Moreover, it is impossible for YAhoo to hand over its mainland business to Netflix as an agent in the future, so it still has to have its own portal in Greater China.
.
Liu Songcheng knows that his boss is an Internet giant, and behind many well-known Internet companies in the United States, there are investments from his boss. Therefore, he is not surprised at all that his boss is vigorously developing the information technology industry in Hong Kong. On the contrary, he is very happy.
"Okay, I'll start preparations right away!"
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "There's no need to rush. I plan to go public early next year, so I'll be well prepared. This website is called Sina. You first go to the mainland, Taiwan and other Greater China regions to register the domain name."
Grab a name first!
"OK"
Lin Zuhui nodded. More than half a year of preparation time is enough. The strength of Netflix software is far beyond what mainland companies can compare with.
In fact, Lin Zuhui is not interested in the effectiveness of the portal network, but he needs to lead the development of the information technology industry in Hong Kong. Of course, if he robbed the tom network opportunity of his previous life, Li Chaoren, Lin Zuhui himself would also be very happy.
Moreover, Sina targets the Greater China region (there is no problem with mainland policies). If it is listed, it can also reap a lot of wealth and can be used as a driving fund to promote the development of Xiangjiang's information technology industry.
Netflix will undoubtedly become a world-class information technology giant, and instant messaging Icq is also one of its signatures.