Throughout January 2004, Qi Jie became the hottest figure in the American financial and Hollywood film circles, and seemed to have become the brightest upstart in the American business world in one fell swoop.

As the spokesperson of China Li, he took charge of Minghu Culture, a giant cultural and entertainment company with total assets of about 4 billion US dollars, and as the leader of the negotiations, assisted China Li to successfully win Columbia Pictures for an astonishing 3.1 billion US dollars.

And more importantly, after the U.S. Department of Commerce approved the amazing deal, Minghu Culture completed the payment on the third day – which speaks volumes about the strength of Minghu Culture from China!

Qi Jie, on the other hand, is the company's top executive, and now she seems to be in the possibility of becoming Colombian at any time - if she becomes the CEO of Columbia Pictures, she will become the second female president in the history of Hollywood's Big Seven, and even more ancient Hollywood Eight, and the first Asian president.

According to the analysis of relevant financial media, the current total valuation of the Minghu-Colombia system is dragged down by Colombia's loss expectations, about 6 billion to 7 billion US dollars, even if it is just as the leader of this system, Qi Jie is enough to rank among the world's film giants, not to mention, according to relevant media reports, her relationship with Li Qian is extremely complicated, she is not only in Minghu - In the Colombian system, she exists as Li Qian's spokesperson and direct manager, and it is said that she also has a very high say in Li's other personal affairs in China.

In a way, she can be considered Lee's chief financial officer.

And China's Li was officially included in the Forbes Asia Wealth List in 2002, and ranked 42nd among the super-rich, and with the rapid development of his two main companies, Minghu Culture and Xunfei Group, especially the latter, the stock price is simply one price a day, and his wealth is still expanding rapidly.

In 2002, he was listed on Forbes for the first time, and was estimated to have a total wealth of about $6.3 billion in shares, equity, real estate, and copyright assets.

In 2003, that figure was $12.1 billion. Ranked 17th.

In the just-released January 2004 list, he has officially ranked ninth on the Asian wealth list, with a net worth of $17.8 billion.

And there are clear remarks in it, because Li Qian has a lot of copyrights of cultural products under his name, which cannot be valued, such as various copyrights of many books, film and television adaptation rights, etc., so this part of the wealth is only remarked, not quantitatively valued.

In addition, Forbes magazine found after an investigation that China Li owns a lot of real estate all over the world, and he and his financial officer Qi seem to be particularly keen on buying real estate, and these properties are located in China and all over the world.

And Qi Jie, as his "chief financial officer", according to the Forbes investigation, claims that "China Qi holds the control of these wealth", and even "above Li's wife, Jinglu Wang, senior vice president of iFLYTEK Group"!

Therefore, her scenery in the United States can be imagined.

She made a high-profile appearance and officially entered Columbia Pictures on behalf of Minghu Culture.

She attended a high-level meeting within Columbia Pictures, and according to internal sources, in the internal meeting, she was quick-witted, talkative and funny, and extremely "friendly", and the turbulent interior of Columbia quickly began to settle down after a meeting.

She appeared at the press conference and made a promise in an unquestionable tone that the management framework would not be changed, no splits, no layoffs, no pay cuts - this move not only left a capable first impression on the whole of the United States, but also these soft policies after she took over Colombia, especially the non-layoffs, not only quickly calmed down the hearts of Colombians, but also made many ordinary Americans who cared about the news full of favor for her.

There are many things that ordinary Americans hate, but there are undoubtedly two things that they hate the most: first, unemployment caused by layoffs, and second, it's time to pay taxes.

As a result, with Qi Jie's series of high-profile appearances, she quickly became a hot figure in the business world that the entire United States liked and followed extremely much in just a few days.

Because of this, as a behind-the-scenes manager, she actually enjoys the treatment that only Hollywood superstars can enjoy - no matter where she goes, there are at least one or two dozen paparazzi squatting and capturing.

Qi Jie, who is nearly thirty years old, has a top-level oriental beauty and figure, and has an extraordinary temperament and super aura that she has experienced in a high position for many years.

As a result, there began to be a lot of praise for her in Colombia, and the American people paid great attention to her and liked her.

Dressed in business clothes to highlight the shrewd and capable temperament, she has become a popular figure that many TV stations must report every day, and has become a superstar who frequently appears in the financial and entertainment pages of many newspapers every day.

Her every move has attracted the attention of the whole United States.

Even her unabashedly living in Liao Liao's house has become a matter that the American people are keen to discuss.

In contrast, Li Qian, whose whereabouts are low-key, has gradually disappeared from the attention of the American people - on the one hand, Qi Jie is too eye-catching, and on the other hand, Li Qian's whereabouts are too difficult to grasp.

January 28, 2004 is the Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival.

On this day, Columbia became the envy of all Hollywood company employees, because their Chinese bosses and beauties announced that every Chinese Lunar New Year in the future, all employees of Columbia Pictures, MGM Films, which is wholly owned by Columbia, and Oriental Dream Films, will receive an extra day of paid leave.

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Regarding a series of actions and trends after Qi Jie entered Colombia on behalf of Minghu Culture, the major Hollywood film companies maintained close attention on the one hand, but on the other hand, they maintained an extremely tacit attitude of indifference.

A senior executive of a film company claimed in an interview that "the huge gap between China and the United States is far farther than movies and coke!"

This sentence was widely quoted by various media outlets, and became a famous quote for a while, and was seen as a very vivid explanation of the dilemma faced by Minghu Culture after the acquisition of Colombia.

Although Coca-Cola is a layman in the movie, they are an American company, they understand American culture, while Minghu Culture is just a Chinese film company, they may be able to dominate the Chinese film market, but they don't understand American movies, let alone American culture.

This is fatal for a film company!

A Disney executive, who did not want to be named, even declared, "We will soon be one of the six major Hollywood studios." ”

The executive allegedly added, "I was struck by the low level of management wisdom of China Qi in trying to make Colombia obedient with just a small favor, and it was a favor that belonged to someone else." ”

At this time, as the acting CEO of Colombia, David Emmerch, as well as the senior management of Colombia, did not give any rebuttal, but kept a low profile as always.

According to the outside world, David Emmerch should be using his silence to demonstrate, obviously, he is a little dissatisfied with China's refusal to remove the word "agent" from his body since he entered Colombia.

And when the reporters threw these statements directly to Qi Jie, Qi Jie simply smiled and shook his head, without the slightest intention of paying attention.

At this time, on February 5, 2004, when the news of the acquisition of a Chinese company and the acquisition of Colombia gradually faded into the limelight, and the beautiful Chinese Qi began to appear less frequently in the newspapers and television, suddenly, without warning, Columbia Pictures suddenly held a sizable press conference.

Glen Char, the former CEO of Colombia, who announced his resignation in protest at a press conference two weeks ago, appeared at the press conference with China, causing a burst of surprise from reporters at the scene.

After the press conference officially began, Qi Jie personally announced that Glen Charles will officially return as the CEO of Columbia Pictures from today, and David Emmerch, who was previously temporarily acting CEO, will continue to serve as Senior Vice President - she specifically emphasized that Minghu Culture will give absolute trust to the management led by Glen Charl!

When the news had not been digested by the reporters present, Qi Jie immediately announced that Minghu Culture plans to inject $500 million to $800 million into Columbia Pictures in the next three years, of which more than $300 million will be injected into this year alone, and $100 million will be in place in February, and this fund will be used to repay part of the loan that is about to expire and enhance Columbia's production capacity.

After announcing these two items, Qi Jie directly handed over the microphone and gave the stage to Glen Char, and even David Emmerch completely became a foil.

Even in the questioning session that followed, she refused to answer any questions as always.

As soon as the press conference ended, she was the first to leave.

And in the afternoon of the same day, under the intensive attention of countless cameras and video cameras, she sat in Liao Liao's car, which was personally driven by Liao Liao and sent to the airport, where she officially waved goodbye to all reporters.

She's back in China.

This move, more direct and effective than all her promises.

She said she would not interfere with Columbia Pictures' internal management and operations, so she turned around and walked away — in a subsequent interview, Glen Charles said he said that the Chinese company did not send a single person to the company.

The move shocked the United States.

Smashed a huge amount of $3.1 billion to complete the acquisition of the snake swallowing elephant, and then entered the ownership in a high-profile manner, announced a series of policies to stabilize people's hearts, and resolved everyone's hostility and rejection of outsiders in the shortest possible time, but then invited back the former CEO who had resolutely opposed their entry into the company, not only announced a huge capital injection plan, but also directly and cleanly handed over all power.

All this, even if the acquisition process is counted, is only a short month, and if calculated from January 20, when the U.S. Department of Commerce approved the acquisition, it even took only 17 days!

China Qi just said that let it go, let it go, and leave directly!

Because this acquisition has attracted much attention from the beginning, it is one of the hottest financial news in the United States in the past month or so, and China Qi has also been quite popular with major media recently, so as soon as this news came out, it quickly spread all over the United States.

Some people ridiculed, but countless people worshipped.

Based on the purchase price of $3.1 billion, coupled with the subsequent announcement by China Qi that it will inject funds in the next three years, the American media deliberately invented a new phrase for this -

"Four billion dollars worth of trust"!

As soon as the phrase appeared, it was like a gust of wind that blew through the media across the United States and around the world.

You know, before that, Colombia was losing money for more than ten consecutive years!

Overnight, Glen Charles became a hot topic in the eyes of the whole country.

Qi Jie's trust became even more precious with her resolute departure.

As for why Glen Charles announced his return after just half a month, what happened during this half month, whether it was Qi Jie or Glen Shire, they were always secret.

It wasn't until nearly three years later, under the control of Glen Shire, that Columbia finally made a profit for the first time in 20 years, and the company finally lost its loss-making hat in the full fiscal year of 2006, and then made a huge profit by leaps and bounds in 2007.

Glen Charles was asked again about this in a subsequent interview, and finally spoke, admitting that he was "impressed by Qian's sincerity" at the time.

"He took me with him to China, he took me to see a new technology that Minghu had been working on, he showed me a whole new future for film, and I sat there and experienced the technology myself. I must admit that at the time, I was completely blown away. That's right, he's what you saw this past summer, 3D!"

"It opened the door to a new world for me!"

"Qian told me, and he said, 'I give you power, full power! I give you trust, we don't interfere in your decision-making! I give you time, three years is not enough, five years! I give you money, a lot of cash!"

"I told him that in three years, I would definitely turn Colombia around!"

"He did it! I did!"

"It is a lifelong honor to meet him and to dedicate my work and ideas to Colombia under his banner! If possible, I am willing to continue to work for Colombia and for him!"

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The plan of January lies at the beginning of the month, the new month is coming, brothers, let me hear your monthly passes, okay?

If you tear it, tear it hard!