Chapter 485: Three Years Later

Three years later, during the Spring Festival, Liu Ruoyi, who appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for 6 consecutive years, finally announced her retirement from the entertainment industry and withdrew from the Spring Festival Gala program.

Although she is still the most popular artist on the stage of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala, there is no one. Every year, he wins the first prize for his favorite actor.

But now it's really not suitable to do this, so I have to leave a way to live with other artists.

The major shareholder of the 100 billion media group, the major shareholder of the 100 billion investment bank, the major shareholder of the 100 billion network company, and the big boss of the investment company that manages more than 500 billion private capital,......

Almost every public title will be dazzling, although the richest Chinese is still on the head of the Li family on the surface, in fact, if the calculation of potential this crown has changed hands long ago.

Because of Liu Ruoyi's really valuable investment in the financial industry, Liu Ruoyi is still very well protected now, and basically it is not revealed.

The U.S. stock market has successively absorbed almost 20 percent of the shares of Apple, Amazon and Google, which are scattered among dozens of offshore companies with complex shareholder structures under Liu Ruoyi.

At the beginning of 2007, Goodle's market capitalization had already exceeded $100 billion, and if nothing else, it will continue to soar and become the most profitable stock in Liu's hands right now.

It is followed by Apple, whose market value has begun to hit $100 billion at the beginning of the year, and when its earth-shattering fruit phone comes out, it will be an unstoppable posture.

Now the worst performance is Amazon, still hovering around the market value of more than 20 billion US dollars, obviously not yet found its own rhythm, but Liu Ruoyi is very patient with this stock to continue, and continue to buy! This is one of the biggest dark horses in the future, Liu Ruoyi can't think of how to subvert its business model.

On the surface, the shares attributable to Liu Ruoyi's private account have a market value of more than 3 billion US dollars, and the reason why these funds are still in her personal account is because the tax on overseas personal accounts of US stocks is still preferential, and Liu Ruoyi also has to leave some liquid assets that can be used at any time for emergency.

As for investing in the mainland stock market, Liu Ruoyi has spent a lot of time relying on the turnover of some industrial companies, and in the past three years, Liu Ruoyi has successively invested nearly 30 billion Hong Kong dollars into A-shares to buy stable stocks such as real estate and finance, and these funds are currently worth at least more than 150 billion yuan in the big bull market.

However, Liu Ruoyi did not have the ability to convert back to Xiangjiang, but Liu Ruoyi knew that this wave of market was coming to an end soon, taking advantage of the current boom in the stock market, Liu Ruoyi had begun to gradually reduce her position and replace it with cash.

The other two largest financial assets in overseas assets are the assets of individual companies that have accumulated almost HK$250 billion in the funds of Cornerstone Investments, and the institutional investment assets of nearly US$50 billion in the funds of West Coast Capital.

These financial assets of more than 100 billion US dollars are unknown to the outside world, and only Liu Ruoyi's closest people know about them. If these assets are counted, not to mention that Liu Ruoyi has already surpassed the Li family to become the richest man in China, even the richest man in the world is like picking up something.

If memory serves, in 2007, Bill Gates was the world's richest man for the thirteenth consecutive time with a net worth of $56 billion. This net worth is much worse than Liu Ruoyi.

But Liu Ruoyi knows that there are still many predators in this world who hide their assets underwater like her.

Even for Bill, his net worth is no longer measurable by Microsoft shares alone, these are just assets that have to surface.

Just like Liu Ruoyi's shares in Aurora Media, Wangju, Yongxiang Bank, and Cornerstone Investment, they all have relatively public information.

But among the new four mining tycoons like Kingdom Mining Group, Liu Ruoyi's identity is still relatively well hidden, and now no one knows that she is still the mining boss with an annual output of more than 50 million tons of iron ore.

Now the name of the mining tycoon in the Chinese circle is firmly on Chu Luo's head! More than the agreed price of 60 US dollars per ton, and billions of tons of reserves, so that Kingdom Mining has become a world-class mining company in one fell swoop.

Because in the process of building the railway, the idle funds were used, Chuluo and Lekki made an integrated acquisition of other mines in the Carrara mining area, adding more than 1 billion tons of reserves to Kingdom Mining Group, making Kingdom Mining's reserves more than 5 billion tons!

After the iron ore surge in 2005, the valuation of Kingdom Mining exceeded 100 billion US dollars! When it was listed in Australia in 2006, the valuation directly exceeded 140 billion US dollars, and the pre-investment financing and IPO allowed Liu Ruoyi and their three original shareholders to directly cash out more than 30 billion US dollars!

Although this price is far from reflecting the value of Kingdom Mining itself, it is possible to double as iron ore rises further in the future, but Liu Ruoyi knows that he will close when he sees a good situation, and most of the stocks sold are influential investment institutions in Australia.

It is obviously impossible to get out of such a big piece of fat without a piece of the pie, and the total of these shares cashed out is almost 25%, which is basically distributed proportionally to the original three shareholders.

After Chu Luo, who had a lot of debts, paid off once, he still had a lot of surpluses and started the second round of business expansion in Australia.

As far as the current market value of Kingdom Mining is concerned, it basically ranks third among the world's mining companies, second only to BHP Billiton in Vale, and has enough resources to integrate some small and medium-sized mining companies after listing, not only iron mines, but also copper mines and coal mines, which are all targeted by Chuluo.

The Carrara heavy-haul railway line was built at an astonishing speed of two and a half years, and then the capacity was increased to 100 million tons per year in less than half a year.

Chuluo's mining fleet is all specialized in short-distance continuous transportation from the mine to the loading and unloading point, but there is no waste.

As a result, not only the mine is contributing to the profits of Kingdom Mining, but the Carrara Railway also contributes a considerable amount of transportation revenue every year.

In view of this, Kingdom Mining is a very well-operated mining company in Australia, coupled with a large number of Chinese miners and a large number of advanced machinery production, both the production capacity and the quality of mining are very good, and the entire production chain is almost complete and defect-free.

Chu Luo's path to becoming a mining tycoon is gone with no turning back. Now he has completely put aside the family doing it himself, and the small mine that the family originally purchased with funds, Chu Luo has doubled the premium and received the Jinda Mining.

Although the family is very jealous of Chu Luo's current net worth, and asks to transfer the equity of Jinda Mining to the family company, how is this possible.

Let's not say that Chu Luo is not so stupid, it's just that when Chu Luo was entering the mining industry, these people were in their mouths, and Chu Luo wouldn't pay much attention to them.

Being able to double the premium to the family investment as an explanation, Chu Luo has already done his duty.

These little things are not worth mentioning, for Liu Ruoyi, the profit of this transaction is also something that she did not expect at the beginning.

Because she didn't notice that Chu Luo would also use the time difference in the use of funds to further acquire other mining companies.

From this point of view, Chu Luo is also a very powerful management talent, give him a chance, and he will be able to create a miracle.

Liu Ruoyi invested more than $5 billion, and by 2007, the two had almost gained $15 billion in cash and left more than $50 billion worth of shares, a deal that many outsiders naturally did not know.

For the money cashed out, Liu Ruoyi put it under Aurora Venture Capital as a venture capital fund, and began to further invest in a new batch of emerging Internet companies in the United States and China.

After years of operation, Aurora Ventures has become the largest venture capital fund in Heungjiang, and its assets under management have exceeded US$50 billion after this wave of investment!

Coupled with the fact that Wincheong Bank now manages more than one trillion Hong Kong dollars in total assets and more than 500 outlets in major Asian cities, Liu Ruoyi's position as the financial queen of Hong Kong is actually unbreakable.

Although many people don't understand that in many funds under Aurora Ventures, Cornerstone Investment and Yongxiang Bank, it is actually Liu Ruoyi's own capital.

But just because Liu Ruoyi can firmly control these three financial giants in Xiangjiang, Liu Ruoyi deserves the title of financial queen.

In contrast, Zhao Shaodong, who is devoted to Aurora Media, seems to be weaker, although it is said that with Aurora Media's revenue of more than 10 billion, he has successfully surpassed all private entertainment companies in the Chinese circle to achieve the title of the king of the entertainment industry.

However, the assets of the Aurora Cinema are now skyrocketing, and the revenue is still not worth mentioning compared with the invested capital, although the speed of the increase is amazing enough.

Aurora Cinemas' huge capital expenditure still has to rely on the parent company's blood transfusion to support a large amount of capital and interest expenses.

This also suppressed the share price of Aurora Media after 100 billion Hong Kong dollars began to waver, and the net assets reflected in the books are virtual for Xiangjiang investors, and if the cash flow is not good, the stock price of Aurora Media will not make a big difference.

However, Aurora Cinemas has truly fulfilled Liu Ruoyi's original promise to build 1,000 top movie theaters!

Now, with one-third of the number of screens, it accounts for nearly forty percent of the revenue of mainland theaters.

The facilities keep up with the world-class screening standards of the Aurora Cinema Line, without exception, they are the best local film venues, and even the waiters are uniformly dressed and attentive professional teams.

Therefore, although the movie ticket price of Aurora Cinema is slightly more expensive than that of others, many people are still willing to choose to come to Aurora to watch movies.

In addition, there are abundant shopping areas and various snack food shopping areas, so you can consider where you can spend your time.

The newly opened online ticketing system allows everyone to calmly buy movie tickets at home and then pinch them to watch.

However, even so, the box office revenue of Aurora Cinema is more than 1.2 billion, and the sales of peripheral and leisure food barely exceed 2 billion yuan, although it is said that it also contributes one-fifth of Aurora Media's revenue.

It's just that taking into account the amortization of billions of capital expenditures every year, for the time being, this profit black hole is still beyond its means, and even drags down the profit performance of the entire group.

If it weren't for the unusually eye-catching performance of ATV, with revenue exceeding 5 billion, Aurora Media's entire profit situation would be really worrying.

Qionghai Satellite TV, which has reached the cooperation period, has contributed about 2 billion in revenue, and with the Chu family leaving Qionghai, it is difficult to say the next cooperation.

Fortunately, "Super Girl" has not been rotten, and after several years of development, it has entered a stable period, and it can steadily contribute nearly 1 billion revenues.

Now this is basically the popularity of the program, and the TV station is just an irrelevant channel.

If according to Liu Ruoyi's idea, it is best to try this show on a different satellite TV station, and let a TV station like Qionghai Satellite TV understand that their variety show is nothing without IP like "Super Girl", and let the TV station that takes over later also figure out their position!

In this way, it will be much easier to cooperate later.

The popularization of TV satellite receivers everywhere in Asia has laid an excellent foundation for ATV to penetrate into the mainland, if it is not for fear of stimulating the nerves of some people in the mainland, Liu Ruoyi can let ATV directly host the mainland's "Super Girl" program!

It's just that this kind of red fruit slap in the face has too many side effects, and Liu Ruoyi can't put ATV on the cusp like this.

According to the current muffled sound to make a fortune, the annual revenue exceeds 5 billion, which is never possible in the Xiangjiang market alone, and the current ATV is actually a program channel that many families in the mainland often watch.

In order to distinguish the preferences of TV viewers in different regions, ATVs have now begun to divide their channels, turning the mainland-oriented channels into Chinese variety channels, Chinese TV drama channels, Asian variety channels, Asian TV channels and other channels.

And modeled after HBO, the ATV movie station was launched, which broadcasts all kinds of movies around the clock. Although there is no support from the paid viewers, and now it is barely able to maintain the balance of copyright purchase costs by advertising fees, the development of this station is very fast, and the ratings growth is considerable.

Considering the technological progress of Yishi Technology in set-top boxes, Liu Ruoyi is considering whether to propose to launch a paid ATV movie station, of course, from the current point of view, the technical problem is not big, and the business development is probably not mature.

People who are accustomed to watching TV for free suddenly have to pay a fee to watch it, and this acceptance may be debatable.

Fortunately, in this regard, Liu Ruoyi is not in a hurry to push.

The advertising model has not yet reached the extreme, and the charging model may still wait for the popularization of smartphones before starting to promote. Nowadays, there is an insurmountable gap between audience consumption habits and payment channels.

In contrast, Aurora Pictures independently releases four or five movies a year, but it can't find a place in Liu Ruoyi's territory.

Although the film company has good revenue and profits, it has steadily exceeded the annual revenue of 1.5 billion, and it has a large number of signed film artists, and it was stimulated by Liu Ruoyi's talent plan to hoard the most artists in the mainland.

More than 20 films have been independently invested and produced in joint ventures, but the mainland film market has not yet started much, so it is not in a hurry.

Liu Ruoyi was developed by him, but when she set up the project, she was asked to refer to her opinions, and when she heard the familiar movie, Liu Ruoyi would focus on recommending it, and provide more opportunities for its comedy trio.

In three years, a lot has changed, but there is one goal that Liu Ruoyi has never changed.