Global Tycoon: You Call This A Small Achievement?

In He Zhou's vision, the three major sectors of Xiangjiang's cultural industry are animation, music, and film and television. The three are the horns of each other and jointly build the glory of Xiangjiang's cultural industry.

However, in the original time and space, Hong Kong comics had long since cooled down. The Hong Kong music scene was even more immersed in the joy of plagiarism and infringement. Even Hong Kong films that we were proud of were continuing to decline and began to wither. course.

When did Hong Kong films begin to decline? It was probably in the 1980s.

The sign of the decline of Hong Kong films is that Shaw Brothers Pictures has encountered huge problems and has begun to gradually withdraw from the film industry and no longer regard film production as its core business.

No matter how ignorant he is, He Zhou learned a series of news from certain channels, that is, Shaw Brothers' layoffs have already begun, and the further they go, the more prominent the layoffs will be.

A large number of outstanding film talents, after being unable to obtain employment opportunities in Hong Kong, had no choice but to leave their jobs and go to North America to work in Hollywood.

After absorbing the excellent characteristics of Hong Kong films, Hollywood has rapidly made amazing progress in the field of action films, especially the design level of martial arts movements. This group of outstanding film talents has been highly reused by Hollywood.

However, the more this happens, the more powerful Hollywood blockbusters become and the more sluggish Hong Kong films become!

The reason why Hong Kong has stagnated and fallen into quagmire in later generations is largely related to the so-called "run out". A large number of talents went to North America and Europe, and more recently, some also immigrated to island countries, Malaya, and Singapore. Settling in the Mainland or on Scam Island.

Perhaps after these talents are expelled, they will still have a more comfortable life, but what is left in Hong Kong is a society riddled with holes.

To a certain extent, in terms of talents, Xiangjiang should not be drained out, but it should use its own unique advantages to attract talents from all over the world to Xiangjiang.

Of course, if like in later generations, only finance and real estate are left in Xiangjiang, it will be useless to say anything. It will not even be able to retain its own talents, let alone attract outstanding talents from all over the world.

As an absolute giant in the field of Hong Kong films, Shaw Brothers actually celebrates the New Year with Wang Xiaoer after entering its 80s, and every year is worse than the previous year.

A very important indicator is that the production of films has dropped rapidly. In order to control costs, only small-cost films have been invested. Not to mention large-scale productions, even medium-sized productions are not very enthusiastic.

Cultural export relies on small productions? Isn’t this a joke?

One or two million dollars invested in making a Hong Kong film, but in the face of big Hollywood productions that often invest tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, failure is already a certainty (bgh).

Therefore, compared with animation and music, Hong Kong's film and television industry has huge problems, which are truly thorny issues.

The market share of the film and television market is several times, even dozens of times larger than the market share of animation and music combined!

He didn't intend to criticize Shao Liushu, because it is almost an obvious fact that Hong Kong films cannot compete with Hollywood blockbusters. It is normal business logic to choose to cut off one's wrists, give up making movies, and choose to focus on TVB.

But at the same time, he also disagrees with the argument that Shao Liushu's decision to quit the film industry was praised for his vision and brilliant turnaround.

As the big brother of Hong Kong films, Luxury has long since bowed down. What should you do if you let the film go?

Yes, it is true that Jiahe New Art City has entered the scene, and Debao, Yongjia, and Siyuan have supported the framework and tricks of Hong Kong films, but in the end, they have cast an indelible shadow on the development of Hong Kong films.

The film and television industry is too deep. TV dramas are okay, but the movie industry is really complicated. He Zhou doesn’t want to get involved yet.

If you want to occupy an upstream position in the film and television industry, an unavoidable problem is to control the theater chain. If you don't have your own theater chain, you are destined to not be able to go far in the future.

For example, wireless theater chains simply do not allow foreign films to be screened, forming an internal closed loop. Jiahe Cinema Line is open to ordinary film practitioners, but the problem is that Hong Kong itself is very limited. If several theater chains continue to divide and fight, , which is basically equivalent to killing each other, and equivalent to making the already narrow market more fragmented.

This abnormal involution will not only eliminate the small fish and shrimps, but the remaining giants will eventually starve due to lack of fish and shrimps as nutritious food, and even eventually destroy themselves.

The long-term layout of the theater chain can already begin, but the current top priority is to solve the bank problem.

After Taian Auto Insurance sold its stocks and bonds at a discount, the funds in its account suddenly became abundant.

Leaving funds idle is not a way to make money. He Zhou plans to set aside a working capital and use the bulk and capital injection to acquire a bank.

As the third largest international financial center in the future, even in this era, Xiangjiang has a very large number of financial institutions. On a global scale, reputable financial institutions basically have branches in Xiangjiang.

Not to mention banks, there are hundreds of banks, large and small, scattered throughout the tiny city of Xiangjiang.

To put it bluntly, the number of banks in Xiangjiang is as numerous as the pharmacies and milk tea shops in the Mainland in later generations. They are everywhere, just walk a few steps.

These behemoth banks, such as HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Minsheng, all have assets worth tens or hundreds of billions, while some of the weak banks are small businesses with total assets of only a few million Hong Kong dollars.

Large banks are expensive and small banks have poor foundations. Due to practical considerations, both are not within the scope of He Zhou's consideration.

His goal is to buy a medium-sized bank with a good foundation.

Soon, a bank that suited his liking came into his sight.

This is a newly established bank called 'Bank of East Asia'. It is said that the boss behind it suffered huge losses due to foreign exchange speculation and was eager to sell assets to make money.

He Zhou carefully browsed the information of Bank of East Asia and found that it was even better than he imagined!

Bank of East Asia is a bank with strong investment attributes, with customer assets as high as 1.79 billion Hong Kong dollars. If it is managed well, it is very possible for its annual net profit to reach 5 million Hong Kong dollars.

But unfortunately, the boss behind it was too gambling and rashly broke into the foreign exchange market, ending up with bruises all over his body.

Of course, if this bank comes into his hands, a net profit of HK$5 million per year will be a piece of cake. After coordinated development with Orient Securities, a net profit of HK$10 million is not impossible.

With nearly 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars in customer assets, if customers can be prompted to increase the frequency of transactions and the amount of funds, the commission income of investment banks will increase accordingly.

On the contrary, if the client withdraws money, or simply lets the funds sit still without conducting transactions, then the commission that the investment bank can obtain will be negligible.

The key is that East Asia Investment Bank should provide customers with reliable financial management guidance. Customers can make money according to the guidance. After tasting the benefits, of course they will learn the taste and automatically increase the frequency of transactions and the amount of funds.

On the issue of investment strategy, He Zhou still has sufficient confidence. Otherwise, Orient Securities would not have been able to increase customer assets from more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars to more than 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars in just over half a year.

This is investors voting with their feet, and it is also the greatest trust in Orient Securities and him personally.