Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 310: China Film Academy is really lame

"Knock on the door! Secretary Li is not here, hurry up!"

"Why don't you knock?"

"I can not!"

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You are the director of a printing factory after all, how can you say such things with such a shameless face!
No prospects!
The director of the equipment factory snorted and raised his hand to knock on the door.

"What are you doing? Can't you do such a small thing?! I'll give you one day to solve it immediately!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of cursing in Chen Shiping's office, and the director of the equipment factory stopped holding his hand.

Forget it, I’m useless.

In the office, Chen Shiping hung up the phone angrily.

One copy of the big ship was lost.

This is too much!
It will take more than ten days for Big Ship to be released from theaters.

If the copy is lost now, pirated discs will be everywhere in less than two days!

This must be stopped!

Chen Shiping is not considering the big ships, but mainly wants to curb the trend of piracy!

This is the root of the entire industry!
After thinking for a while, Chen Shiping picked up the phone and told the people at 20th Century Fox that the copy was lost.

Everyone at 20th Century Fox is numb.

"Chen, you must retrieve the copy. There must not be any pirated copies."

"I know. I've already sent someone to look for it. Don't get excited."

"Chen, you have to take this seriously. Piracy will affect the entire industry!"

"Understood. I promise that no pirated copies will appear before the movie is released on the big ship!"

"That's wrong. You can't show up after it's off the screen!"

"Yeah, I'll try my best!"

After Chen Shiping hung up the phone, he called the Guangdong Film Projection Company again.

If they cannot find pirated copies and cannot prevent them from happening, the number of copies of all movies in Guangdong will be reduced by 30 percent in the future!
Chen Shiping sees things very clearly now. Since he is not going to move up in the ladder anyway, he has to be tough in his actions.

The chairman of China Film Group Corporation will definitely not be able to escape!

Chen Shiping was thinking about going back to trip up Chairman Tong and becoming the acting chairman himself.

Wouldn’t it be possible to become a regular employee after working for a few years?

But there is no time to think about this now.

There are too many things on hand.

Chen Shiping looked at the list of companies that needed to be merged and had no intention of looking for the leaders of their superior units, otherwise it would just be another round of wrangling!
Chen Shiping was just about to ask Xiao Li to call for help when she knocked on the door and came in.

"Mr. Chen, several factory managers have been waiting for you outside for a long time."

"No time, let them come tomorrow."

"Ok."

Chen Shiping planned to resolve the issue first and then talk to them.

All they do is cry poor!

Chen Shiping still wants to cry poor!

How many people need to feed in such a large group?

Tens of thousands of people!

Oh, I forgot, just send it to the headquarters.

There are not many people at the headquarters.

Chen Shiping shook his head and began to deal with the reform plan.

The merger of several companies requires a lot of money. Chen Shiping plans to introduce Chunyu Investment to obtain financing.

Let more capital come in! There is nothing wrong with this!

Chen Shiping is completely focused on the development of the group, and he doesn't have a single penny or shares in Chunyu Investment!
Chen Shiping looked at the companies on the list and called their leaders one by one to report on the company's situation.

Soon the manager of the first trading company came over.

Chen Shiping looked at him and said, "Sit down."

The manager of the trading company sat down nervously, fearing that he would be fired after the merger.

"Fifty percent of your company's shares are owned by others, right? How much are they worth now?"

"About seven million," the manager said nervously.

"But judging by the current financial situation and asset list, this company has been running at a loss for a long time."

"That's...yes." The manager was speechless and could only admit it!
Chen Shiping hummed and said, "According to the estimates of the group's financial department, your company's current assets are worth about 5 million and 200,000. Fifty percent is 2.6 million. Go and negotiate and get your shares back, otherwise the disciplinary inspection team will come to negotiate."

Hearing those two words, the manager of the trading company was stunned.

No way, Mr. Chen, are you serious?!

How is he going to explain this to the factory manager?

"Is there a problem? It seems that your company's assets and accounts have not been checked clearly. I'll have someone check again."

"No! No problem!" The manager of the trading company said immediately, "I'll go talk to you right now!"

Chen Shiping said expressionlessly: "One day, come back and give me an answer at this time tomorrow."

After Chen Shiping finished speaking, he waved his hand and let him go.

After he left, managers from other companies outside the door wanted to ask what they were talking about so quickly.

But since Secretary Li was here, they didn’t dare to ask.

Secretary Xiao Li smiled and said to the next person, "Manager Wang, it's your turn."

"Okay, please help Secretary Li."

As he said that, he pushed the door open and went in. Three minutes later he came out.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and left without saying a word.

The rest of the people who hadn’t entered were a little dumbfounded. Why did everyone who entered look so weird?

What on earth did Chen Shiping say?

But you can’t avoid what’s coming.

In less than an hour, Chen Shiping finished chatting with these company managers.

These companies all have bad debts, none of them can stand up to scrutiny.

They were also nervous for a while after the merger with China Film Group, but instead of making the company better, they made it worse in the hope of getting subsidies.

Everyone was thinking that the group had just been merged, so they didn’t dare to make any big moves!
Chen Shiping understood everything as soon as he saw the accounts, but this was a perfect opportunity for him to make trouble.

This is a state-owned enterprise! Chen Shiping doesn't need to worry about those things!

If you can, come to me!
A group of branches under the branches have fallen to such a state, they are just like chicken feathers.

If the quality is not good, no matter how much quantity there is, it will not work!

The General Administration and the Ministry asked him to come here to improve China Film Group. Who can get rid of Chen Shiping at this time?

Who can take over this stall?

In the original time and space, China Film Corporation made money by distributing Hollywood blockbusters!

There was no change in China Film Corporation during the years when Director Tong took office. In fact, around the turn of the millennium, a bunch of veteran directors came to ask for money!
At that time, President Tong really ruled by doing nothing, relying entirely on the distribution of Hollywood movies to support China Film. If it relied only on that, why did they merge in the first place?
It was not until Yang Bu Ting took office and Han Lao San became the deputy director that they began to invest heavily in blockbusters and started to develop in a bold manner.

What is Wuji? It was created by Han Lao San when Yang Biao was in office.

But it was not successful, and it could even be said to be a failure.

However, the huge amount of money invested did stimulate the market to a certain extent.

China Film Group did make a bit of money.

However, such a large group with such great power, after so many years of development, its market value is still not as high as that of Guangxian. It’s so damn shameful just to think about it!

It took several years to get listed, and finally it was listed, but it performed worse than private enterprises!

Chen Shiping now has nearly 10 billion yuan in assets under his group.

After more than 20 years of development, prices have increased several times, but the market value has not increased at all!

The revenue-generating capacity is so poor that it is shocking!
I've been losing money for several years!
Chen Shiping was really convinced. Publishing the shares was almost pure profit!
And China Film Group also has several film and television bases!

How did they manage to get such low revenue?
The annual revenue is not even as much as that of a hot box office movie!

It's such a waste to leave such a good group in the hands of those people!

Chen Shiping felt his blood boiling when he thought of this!

All the domestic film and television industries combined are not even one-tenth of Disney’s.

Disney's annual revenue is over 80 billion US dollars!!

How come a group company that is also involved in many industries has a total market value that is less than one-fifth of others' first quarter revenue?
China Film Group is clearly a monopoly group, yet it cannot become number one in the country.

Chen Shiping didn't know what to say.

Why go public? It's totally embarrassing!
In any case, Chen Shiping will not allow China Film to go public!

It’s not that Chen Shiping is afraid of losing face, but he is worried that having too much money will attract envy!

Just so confident!

The Asian market is now surpassing Hollywood movies.

Keep working hard in the future and you will catch up sooner or later!
However, we still need to prevent piracy from destroying the market!
The Guangdong Film Company sent back a message saying that the lost copy had been found, but the person was not arrested.

Chen Shiping even wanted to curse!
It must be someone with connections who did this!
It’s okay if the person is not caught, but the copies cannot be circulated!

They categorically guaranteed that there would not be any pirated copies!
Chen Shiping was too lazy to act with them and said directly:

"I'm too lazy to go into details about how I lost it and how I found it. Piracy must never occur. This kind of thing must never happen again in the future. Otherwise, just produce and sell your own products in the future!"

Chen Shiping hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

It is true that China Film Group cannot now control the cinema chains in various provinces as it did during the period of unified purchase and distribution, but it can still do so for many films.

If you don’t listen, I won’t give you a copy!
If you have the ability, you can just produce and sell your own films. Among all the film production studios in China, only a few have the ability to distribute films.

The vast majority of film studios still have to look for China Film to distribute their films. Co-productions and imported films all need China Film to distribute them!

Whoever has pirated copies in their territory will have their copies blocked. Don’t you just want to make money from pirated copies?

Then no region will make any money!

By then, someone will naturally supervise him!
Would someone who can get a copy and pirate it share the profits with everyone else?
Those who can't get any money will naturally nail them to death!

Chen Shiping’s approach is so simple. Others worry that piracy is dumping, but Chen Shiping does the opposite!
Only interests can make people move now!

Now that the issue of the big ship was resolved, Chen Shiping felt relieved.

At least we didn't bring shame abroad. Even if we wanted to crush a big ship, we couldn't use this method.

After Chen Shiping finished talking about this matter with the person from 20th Century Fox, he listened to some bragging from the other end and then hung up the phone and went about his own business.

A day later, Chen Shiping called the factory directors and managers from those superior companies over again.

This time when they came in, they didn't complain about being poor, nor did they ask for support.

Chen Shiping looked at them and asked, "What did you want to talk to me about the day before yesterday?"

The director of the printing factory immediately smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay! I just want to ask when your companies will merge so that I can help you deal with the equity issues in advance."

"I have already taken care of it. You don't have to worry. You will be compensated after the merger, and the group will not take your subsidiary for nothing."

Chen Shiping took a sip of tea and continued, "In the past, these companies were on the verge of bankruptcy, and their accounts were not looking good. I don't want to pursue you for anything. The group took them back and merged them for better development and to reduce your burden."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Chen has worked hard for the development of the group and our factories."

"We are all here to serve the people, to run the group well, and to develop the film industry well. This is our goal and principle!"

Chen Shiping looked at them and said, "Since you have no objections, go back and handle the formalities. The group will send you a document to tell you the details of the compensation later."

The factory managers of these factories were very upset, but they were also glad that they escaped.

The main reason was that Chen Shiping had suddenly inspected those companies before and had found out the details of the companies before they could react.

The bin is in their hands, you have no choice but to accept it!
Now that you have received compensation, just go home and be happy!

At least it’s easier to explain to the factory!

Chen Shiping sighed, this kind of thing is the most troublesome.

There are so many companies in the group, which one of them doesn’t take advantage of the situation?
If they really investigate, everyone involved will be fired, and the serious ones will be arrested!
In the past, when we ate public food, we treated the government as our own home.

take it easy!

Let’s deal with these companies first, there will be a lot of trouble after the merger.

Some of these advertising companies make advertisements, while others make TV dramas under the name of advertising companies.

Some companies do not have the right to produce films, so they skirt the rules and open advertising companies to shoot TV dramas.

Such companies have to merge together to form a separate media company.

We also need to divert from the business of the Television Art Center, take over the TV program projects, and make TV programs.

Those companies that do advertising also integrated their resources to set up a company specializing in advertising.

Even with the support of China Film Group, if the advertising business still fails to take off, then the company can just be dissolved.

Everyone go and sweep the toilet!

It is simple for hotels and shopping malls. We agree to re-plan and upgrade them, and change the unified signs to all shopping malls and supermarkets. The trading companies and industrial companies will build the supply system later.

Several guesthouses have also been upgraded to chain hotel models, and all hardware has been upgraded!

Just spend the money, and the results will gradually emerge under unified management!
Chen Shiping was too lazy to even talk about the conditions of the previous guesthouse!

It's not a treat at all, it's just a makeshift arrangement!

You can still make some money now, but in two years you will be eliminated by the market.

Let’s take our time on the road to reform! I hope to get the results from these companies by the end of the year!

At night, Chen Shiping returned home and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Tao's mother taking care of the child.

"Where is Xiulin's mother?" Chen Shiping asked curiously.

Tao's mother smiled and said, "She said her friend was pregnant and came over to see us so we don't have to wait for her to eat."

Chen Shiping paused and asked nonchalantly, "Which friend? Fang Bing is pregnant?"

Tao's mother recalled and said, "Chen Hong! The one who filmed your movie!"

Chen Shiping sighed in his heart, smiled and said to Tao Ma: "She has never filmed my movie. I'm going to the study first."

In the study, Chen Shiping sat patiently at the desk reading documents. He counted silently for more than four minutes and then left the study.

"Mom, there is a document I forgot to bring back from the company. I'll go back in a minute. You can eat first and don't have to wait for me."

"How long does it take to get a document? It's okay. I'll wait for you to come back."

"Okay, I'll be back soon."

(Sorry, I'll update two chapters around 5 o'clock later. I won't stay up late anymore. I can't bear it.)
(End of this chapter)