The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 804 Panshan Sports Team

Next to Southwest Associated University is Panshan Sports Center.

Panshan Group has made considerable investment in sports.

Among the companies in its various civilian fields that hire celebrities to do advertisements, entertainment stars only account for one-third, while sports stars account for two-thirds.

Ever since the emergence of professional sports, work in this area has begun with the goal of developing sports activities and training professional competitive athletes.

The original stadium was requisitioned and newly built to form the Panshan Sports Center.

And today is the day when Panshan Sports Team is established.

Panshan Sports Team, whose full name is Panshan Group Sports Team, is at the department level.

Panshan Sports Team has set up basketball center, football center, volleyball center, table tennis center, tennis center, rugby center, badminton center, swimming center, track and field center, shooting center, gymnastics center, weightlifting center, etc.

The sports center is not very complete yet, but there will be special facilities and professional teams in the future.

The current venue is the sports center and the gymnasium and playground of Southwest Associated University!
Now we are just setting up the Panshan Sports Team, and later we will also organize various domestic sports competitions to promote the development of sports.

In addition to selecting and training athletes, the Panshan Sports Team also has to form a special coaching team, medical team, physical trainers, etc.

It even requires the formation of a professional referee team.

It can be said that sports are not easy to do, and it is even harder to do well!
At present, these people are all selected by Panshan Group itself and are not professionals.

Formal recruitment will only be carried out after the Panshan Sports Team is established.

Panshan Sports Team was officially established, and Liu Tao naturally had to attend the establishment ceremony.

Challenge your limits and become stronger!
In the middle is - Sports make the country prosperous!
This is the declaration and mission of Panshan Sports Team!

Challenge your limits and become stronger. This is a message to the athletes, hoping that they can continue to challenge themselves and become stronger.

What athletes pursue is faster, higher, stronger!
What they need is to constantly challenge themselves, challenge their bodies, and challenge their minds!

Sports are the key to national prosperity, and this can be traced back decades ago.

A strong China means a strong sports industry; a prosperous country means a prosperous sports industry!
The sports industry is closely related to the prosperity of a country.

The salary system of Panshan Sports Team is slightly similar to that of Panshan Group, which is basic salary plus allowances, subsidies and bonuses.

Athletes’ bonuses are determined based on their ranking in competitions, and the bonuses for different rankings in competitions of different levels are different.

The bonuses for coaches, physical trainers, medical staff, etc. are closely related to the athletes, and the total amount is probably equivalent to half of the athletes' bonuses.

In addition, athletes have another major source of income, which is endorsement fees!

Liu Jingming, Liu Yingqing, Liu Qingan and Liu Manhua became the first batch of members of the Panshan Sports Team.

Liu Jingming and Liu Yingqing practiced swimming, while Liu Qingan and Liu Manhua practiced tennis.

In addition to professional training, they also have to keep up with their studies.

This is also what Liu Tao pursues for them: they can do what they like, but they cannot give up studying.

Develop the habit of learning, so that even if you retire and don’t continue to do sports, you can do other things.

For athletes, training is too hard. During their careers, athletes suffer from injuries one by one.

After the ceremony, Liu Tao met individually with various sports stars, all of whom he had personally invited by writing letters.

Lang Ping, a former meritorious athlete of the national women's volleyball team, has won many honors during her career. She retired in 1985 and started her coaching career in 1989. This year, she was invited to serve as the head coach of the Panshan Sports Team women's volleyball team.

Liu Tao knew that this man was not only full of honors in his athletic career, but also in his coaching career.

In order to invite Lang Ping to be the head coach of the women's volleyball team, her husband became one of the coaches of the men's team.

Zhou Jihong, China's first Olympic diving champion, retired in 1986 and entered Peking University to study English. After graduating in 1990, he became the coach of the Chinese national diving team. This year, he was invited to take charge of the Panshan diving team and is the head coach of the diving team.

This is the most famous coach in the team at present. In the future, Panshan team will also invite these retired stars to serve as coaches or even head coaches. After all, they have been in this industry for so long and have made a name for themselves. They know how to train athletes and which athletes are talented and suitable for training.

Athletes, like everyone else, need talent to reach the top or even the best.

Without talent, no matter how hard you work, it will be useless.

Just like talented girls like Gao Min and Fu Mingxia, they amazed everyone as soon as they debuted.

The championship was easy to come by.

Liu Tao agreed to let his four children pursue professional sports because he was sure they had talent and were interested in it.

The Panshan team is currently in its infancy and it will take at least three to five years to be fully developed.

Liu Tao didn't know much about sports, but he was willing to spend money to give athletes, coaches and others high salaries. The medical staff were directly formed by Panshan Hospital.

As long as the salary is adequate and there is enough sincerity, I think it can be done.

In order to demonstrate his importance to the Panshan team, Liu Tao personally served as the head of the Panshan team, and would hand it over to someone with outstanding performance after two or three years.

Liu Tao hopes that the Panshan team can leave a mark in the Chinese sports world and achieve outstanding results.

At this time, Liu Tao received information that HSBC had undergone major changes, with significant changes in its equity, and HSBC officially moved its registered place back to Hong Kong.

At the same time, HSBC reached an agreement with the Hong Kong government that HSBC would give up the right to print Hong Kong dollars. From then on, the right to print Hong Kong dollars belonged only to Hong Kong Bank.

Hong Kong Bank has become the de facto 'shadow central bank' of Hong Kong!
Liu Tao didn't care much about this. Although HSBC was still a big bank, it was no longer the giant it once was.

As long as the right to print Hong Kong dollars is given up and the Chinese businessmen hold no less equity than the British, it will not be easy for the British to transfer assets or do something.

The importance of Hong Kong is self-evident.

So far, Hong Kong has been not only a springboard for China's foreign exports, but also a bridgehead for overseas entry into mainland China. It is the center of foreign trade and also serves as a financial center. Many mainland companies are listed in Hong Kong and obtain funds through listing financing. There are also investment institutions in Hong Kong that invest in mainland companies, allowing mainland companies that lack funds to obtain development funds.

In addition, Hong Kong is also one of the educational centers of China. Every year, there are tens of thousands of mainland students going to universities in Hong Kong. This includes not only undergraduate education, but also graduate and doctoral education.

It is not easy to study abroad in Europe, America or Japan. After all, the competition is fierce and the number of places is limited. However, it is relatively easy to study in universities in Hong Kong. In addition to obtaining places through national channels, there are also foundations established by Hong Kong or Chinese businessmen that can provide places.

Even if some people go to Hong Kong to study at their own expense, the cost is much lower than studying abroad.

Ensuring Hong Kong’s development and prosperity has always been our top priority.

(End of this chapter)