Hong Kong's new giants

Chapter 731 [Crazy Media Group]

mid-December.

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council released a research report titled "Cultural Industries in Hong Kong" to assess the contribution of cultural and creative industries to Hong Kong's economy.

The report pointed out: [As of March 2002, Xiangjiang’s cultural industry employed more than 3 employees, accounting for 20% of Hong Kong’s employed population; the total export value of cultural industries in 8 reached 2001 billion Hong Kong dollars, accounting for 950% of Hong Kong’s total service exports. %; in the same year, the output value of the cultural industry was 95 billion Hong Kong dollars, accounting for about 1600% of Hong Kong's gross local output value.Compared with the cultural industry in the UK, which accounts for 10.5%, Xiangjiang has become a culturally strong area.

The cultural industry is not only a manifestation of its own high value, but also drives Hong Kong's tourism, retail and other fields. It has an impact on the entire Hong Kong economy that is no less than trade and finance, and has become one of the three pillars of Hong Kong's economy. 】

Once the report was reproduced by the media, the citizens of Xiangjiang felt a sense of honor spontaneously, and immediately thought of the media group as a giant 'cultural technology group'.

Sure enough, the media group subsequently released a semi-annual financial report, pointing out that in the first half of 2002, the media group's turnover reached 230 billion Hong Kong dollars, and its net profit exceeded 60 billion Hong Kong dollars, and it will stably exceed [-] billion Hong Kong dollars in profits within the year.

For a while, the stock of the media group bucked the trend and rose.

"The media group is really powerful! The game industry made a profit of 8.5 million Hong Kong dollars in the first half of the year. Isn't it necessary to obtain a net profit of more than 17 billion Hong Kong dollars for the whole year? Are there so many people playing games in Xiangjiang?"

"What do you know! Xiangjiang's game industry is the dominant position in the world, and the game software is exported to occupy an absolute share. Let me tell you, there is a very powerful online game "Paradise" in South Korea. The media group’s online games include "Legend of Hot Blood", "Miracle MU" and "Ragnarok". In the first half of the year, it released two casual online games "Adventure Island" and "Bubble Hall". Online games such as "Audition" and "Martin Car" will be released in half a year. Produced by Ninth City, it must be a high-quality product. 2400 million Hong Kong dollars. What's more, there are other PC games and console games revenue."

"I met a knowledgeable person, are you a game fan?"

"nonsense!"

There is a lot of discussion among the media groups, from the game industry, the entertainment industry, to the Internet and the media industry, and they are making efforts one after another, ushering in a year of skyrocketing growth.

"Kung Fu Panda's US box office is 2 million US dollars, Xiangjiang 4500 million Hong Kong dollars, and the mainland has reached 8000 million RMB. I heard that this animation is invested and participated in the production by DreamWorks. I am afraid it will earn 1 million US dollars!"

"There is no problem with US$1 million, and what the media group is best at is developing peripheral products. The income brought by this movie to the media group is far more than US$1 million. How much money "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" made back then can be earned by "Kung Fu Panda" More than double, because the copyright still belongs to DreamWorks."

"My God, Mr. Lin Zuhui really knows how to invest. No wonder he bought a yacht worth 20 billion Hong Kong dollars without blinking his eyes."

"Why are you blinking? The world's richest man has a net worth of more than 5000 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is the combined wealth of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong."

"No way, is it the sum of the top ten richest people? Doesn't that mean he earned all the money in Hong Kong!"

"Others earn money from abroad, how can Hong Kong support so much wealth?"

"Yes, Lin Zuhui is a world businessman, of course he is making money from the world."

With the development of the cultural industry, Hong Kong's economy will usher in a positive growth of more than 3%, and it is expected to usher in the US$2100 billion mark next year.But there is still a difficulty - SaS will have an impact on Hong Kong's economy, so this goal may be achieved in 2004.

Of course, the Xiangjiang stock market opened a wave from 12500 points a few days ago.

Lin Zuhui brought Li Jiaxin and his two sons to the Panda House in Ocean Park.

I saw a crowd of people here, and a large Kung Fu Panda was erected at the door, which was very eye-catching and attracted people to take pictures with their cameras.

The two pandas in Ocean Park, An An and Jia Jia, were given as gifts in 1999. They have always been the favorites of Xiangjiang residents, and these two pandas live a very good life.

Lin Zuhui knew that the pandas in Xiangjiang only lived to be 35 years old, which is equivalent to 105 years in humans.It can be seen that Xiangjiang is still taking good care of it.

On the contrary, the Yankee in his previous life did not take Huaxia's pandas seriously. It is said that he was disturbed by some political factors. The Yankee was uneasy and kind, and starved the two pandas to the point of shame, turning them into 'panda bears'.

"Baba, look at Kung Fu Panda!" He and Li Jiaxin's youngest son said excitedly, pointing at the Kung Fu Panda.

Lin Zuhui nodded with a smile, feeling in his heart that while the cultural industry brought him high profits, it also brought him honor and pride.

This investment in "Kung Fu Panda" not only made a lot of money, but also gained honors, which is very worthwhile.

"Lin Sheng, you are really bringing honor to the people of Hong Kong. Kung Fu Panda has become a thing of Hong Kong!" A tourist recognized Lin Zuhui and said happily.

"It's all thanks to my colleagues, and besides, the panda belongs to China!" Lin Zuhui said modestly.

At this time, many people saw Lin Zuhui, but they didn't come up to do anything directly, they just looked at Lin Zuhui and Li Jiaxin curiously.

As for his and Li Jiaxin's two sons, Lin Zuhui specially told them to wear baseball caps, and the bodyguards will also pay attention to the possibility of being secretly photographed.

Of course, this is just a normal precaution, and there is no need to worry about it even if it is photographed.

Going alone with the two sons is a rare interaction throughout the year, which increases the relationship between father and son.

At present, the Lin family has not yet had a situation where the father is not loving and the son is not filial.

While playing, Lin Zuhui also started to observe Ocean Park, where you can see "caricature images" belonging to Xiangjiang, such as Pikachu, Conan, Luffy and other dolls.

This is the periphery of Xiangjiang's comic industry, which drives the development of the entire tourism industry.The current operating conditions of the Ocean Park are not bad, and it should be much better than in the previous life. There is a decisive influence of the cultural industry.You must know that in the previous life, in 2003, Xiangjiang Ocean Park had already declined. In the end, Sheng Shiwen (the father of Lan Kwai Fong) became the chairman of Ocean Park, and then the management began to improve.

I don't know how much influence Ocean Park will have after this SAS. Unknowingly, Lin Zuhui always likes to consider Xiangjiang's public affairs. Although he declined all public positions, he is always concerned about Xiangjiang's future.

Therefore, next year he may still promote Sheng Shiwen to serve as the chairman of Ocean Park, so as to drive the tourism industry of Xiangjiang Ocean Park.

Xiangjiang’s animation industry is very developed, and it has also generated a lot of peripheral benefits. Xiangjiang has a number of animation experience exhibition halls invested by Wanhui Comics, including Pikachu Pavilion and Conan Pavilion.

ATV Center, Variety Show Video Building.

On both sides of the 'Star Road to Work', fans and reporters gathered.

Two nanny cars stopped, and a group of young girls came out, and the fans went crazy immediately.

"Girls' Generation"

"Forever Girls' Generation"

"geegeegeegeebabybabybaby"

"Girls' Generation, five consecutive championships, come on!"

For a while, the atmosphere of the scene reached its peak.

It turns out that since Girls' Generation debuted last year, it has become a popular Hong Kong group and has won many honors and achievements.

But, that's not a big deal. Girls' Generation released a mini-album in July this year. With the title song "GEE", they were out of control. There will be more champions.

At present, Xiangjiang has two music playing programs, ATV's "Music Music" and TVB's "Golden Songs" (revised), so as long as you win the championship of one of the programs every week, you will add a "consecutive championship"; Two, add 'two consecutive championships'.

It seems that Girls' Generation's current 'four consecutive championships' is easy, but it is actually very difficult:

First of all, in the first few weeks of playing songs, they may not be able to compete with the previous groups, because this score's "sound source" accounted for a large proportion of sales;
Secondly, during the period of winning the championship, it is also possible that the people behind will break out and snatch the championship midway.

In short, Hong Kong Stream music is already the dominant position in Asia, and the competition among major groups has become fierce and fierce.

Even YG Entertainment is no longer 'monopolizing HK-POP', but is facing challenges from other entertainment companies in Hong Kong. Of course, the current status of YG Entertainment is much higher than that of SM Entertainment in Korea before 2010.

Nine young girls between 16 and 18 years old, dressed in fashionable and youthful Hong Kong style clothes, came to the fans.

The captain shouted: "One two three"

The nine people chanted in unison: "Now is Girls' Generation, it will be Girls' Generation in the future, and it will always be Girls' Generation."

The fans suddenly went crazy. Of course, the security here is fine, and the fans hardly have illegitimate meals.

That night, Girls' Generation came to play songs in person, and the audience was in high spirits, and some even fell into madness.

Sometimes, even if you don't come to play songs, you may still win the championship.Of course, if the group is in Xiangjiang, they must come to play songs, because this way they will gain more fans.

You must know that "Music Bank" will be rebroadcasted by local stations in the mainland and Taiwan, and the copyright is sold, so the influence is very huge.

"geegeegeegeebabybabybaby"

With the catchy girly love style lyrics sung (Cantonese, Hong Kong Stream is mainly in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and other albums will also be released), coupled with the "crab leg dance" of nine girls, instantly captured the hearts of men, women and children .

That night, Girls' Generation won another championship, became the 'five consecutive championships', and challenged the record of 'six consecutive championships'.

next to the TV.

Lin Zuhui watched Girls' Generation's performance, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, slowly feeling a sense of accomplishment.

But in the eyes of the nine members of the family, it was different, and everyone discussed it one after another.

"There are also nine of us. Could it be that Ah Hui established this combination based on our prototype." Guan Jiahui said proudly.

"Hey, that seems to be the case! What's the effort, why don't the nine of us form 'Girls' Generation' too, and show it to Brother Hui!" Li Jiaxin had an expression that I could do it too.

Lin Zuhui was speechless immediately, these women!
"First of all, I have never interfered with YG Entertainment. Except for determining the style of singing and dancing at the beginning and absorbing excellent foreign experience, I haven't been to YG Building for several years."

"Secondly, although the nine of you are much prettier than them, the group you form cannot be called Girls' Generation, it can only be called Young Women's Generation."

"In the end, it is impossible for me to mess with the stars of the media group, and I will not mess with the stars of Xiangjiang now. I am already very big."

This is just great!

Everyone had a lively discussion.

"What, it's better to be prettier than them, why marry us as a young woman!"

"That is, don't they often shout the slogan 'now is Girls' Generation, it will be Girls' Generation in the future, and it will always be Girls' Generation.' Why, they will always be Girls' Generation!"

"That's right! Although I'm also a Girls' Generation fan, I'm a little jealous!"

"So, since our men like Girls' Generation, why don't we team up and practice "GEE"!"

Good guy, these women have also been possessed.

Unlike the booming cultural industry in Xiangjiang, the cultural industry in Bangzi Country is in big trouble.

First, in August, the head of the Bangzi Kingdom was exposed by the parliamentarians as "spending money to buy the Nobel Prize" scandal. It was revealed that in 1999, Mr. Kim instructed the Hyundai Group to deposit 1 million US dollars into the account of the North Korea for the peace talks between the leaders of the two sides; As a result, Mr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that year.

As soon as the public opinion came out, there was an uproar in Bangziguo. At the same time, the prosecutor intervened in the investigation, and Mr. Jin's position was instantly unstable.

And Mr. Jin's "Cultural Nation" that Mr. Jin called out when he took office also encountered big troubles:

First, H-POP is accused of imitating HK-POP, and its overall quality is far inferior to that of HK-POP, so it can only be used in Bangzi’s domestic market. HK-POP fans, because in the mid-90s, HK-POP occupied a large market in Korea.At that time, South Korea was busy banning American and Japanese culture, but it chose to include Xiangjiang entertainment culture. This was something the South Korean government did not expect.

Second, Korean dramas are also caught in plagiarism. Either they buy copyrights to adapt or directly purchase copyrights to broadcast. Korean dramas exported to Hong Kong, the mainland, and overseas always receive mediocre response, while Hong Kong dramas always create great popularity in Korea.Over time, several major TV stations will always buy more Hong Kong dramas.

Third, the rise of Hong Kong Stream variety shows in Hong Kong has brought the influence of Hong Kong Stream in Asia to a new height in one fell swoop, while South Korea has no Korean variety shows yet.

Fourth, the development of the Korean game industry is also very difficult. It is not that the overall quality of the Korean game industry is not good, but that the Xiangjiang game industry is too domineering, occupying the markets in the Mainland, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. very influential. (PS, classics are not only art and technology, but also creativity. When the creativity is taken by others, even if the people behind come up with games of the same quality, they may not necessarily get good results)

In short, Xiangjiang's cultural industry took the lead and seized the Asian market, and even had a large share in Europe and the United States, which made it extremely difficult for South Korea's cultural exports.

Taking the game field as an example, Xiangjiang ranks first in Asia, Japan ranks second, and South Korea only ranks third.

At the same time, because South Korea always 'copy' Hong Kong's culture, its reputation in Asia is getting worse and worse, and it often gets into lawsuits and accusations from the media.Even local netizens in South Korea often complain online, feeling ashamed.

The competition in the cultural industry is about whose works are better and who can conquer those audiences.

Obviously, Xiangjiang has done better!

However, there are some things that Xiangjiang does not do as well as South Korea, that is, the government does not provide enough support and assistance in the cultural industry.

It can be said that if there is no BUG of Lin Zuhui, even if Xiangjiang opened the Hong Kong Stream a few years earlier, it may not be able to compete with South Korea.

And when Xiangjiang has a large number of works, there is no need to consider losing to the Koreans in the follow-up, after all the templates have come out.

(End of this chapter)