Chapter 386: Losing Money (Five Monthly Passes Plus Update)
Lin Quan didn't know about Li Xiang's careful thoughts, but the farm's tourism industry was very profitable, which he had known for a long time, and even throughout the year, his biggest source of income was actually the tourism industry, and this year compared with last year, there were a lot more people who came here to travel, the reason is very simple, the fame of their farm has been out. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This year, the scale of his farm has expanded several times, the plants in the farm are lush, it looks very comfortable, he also specially placed a batch of advertisements in Europe for this purpose, although subject to financial problems, these advertisements are mostly published on the Internet, the influence will not be particularly large, but advertising is better than not doing a good job, and those who like to travel, will often browse all kinds of information on the Internet, maybe you will notice these advertisements.
However, because there is no feedback mechanism, he doesn't know what kind of effect his ad has achieved. And at the moment, the biggest help for their farm is obviously the previous advertisement.
Thinking of this, Lin Quan had to thank one person, that was Taylor Swift, Taylor helped him a lot, but he had nothing to reciprocate, which made Lin Quan feel a little guilty in his heart.
The farm now has about 5,000 visitors a day, many of whom come to visit their farm, as well as old customers who come back to see how the trees they have planted are surviving.
At that time, the location of these seedlings was relatively marginal, not the core area, but now, due to several expansions of the farm, this area has been completely wrapped into the farm and has become one of the central areas.
Compared with the neat trees and single varieties in other areas of the farm, although this side is more colorful, but this kind of colorfulness is not at all beautiful in Lin Quan's view, there is only one impact, that is, chaos!
Why? Because Lin Quan has obsessive-compulsive disorder, he can't see that the surroundings are neat and tidy, and the middle piece is a mess.
"Seriously, you can send us a little more fruit from your farm, the amount set before is not enough to eat!"
The oil fields in the north are now in the critical stage of construction, although PetroChina is holding fire in their hearts, their oil fields are difficult to exploit, the oil reserves are small, and the cost is obviously more expensive, if such oil fields are because of political bonuses, then there is no problem in pinching their noses to continue to exploit the industry, because the Niger government will think of their good because of what they have done, and give them convenience elsewhere.
And this matter is also one of the many cooperation signed by the two sides after the bigwig's visit to Niger, for them it is equivalent to the task assigned by the state, and the control of state-owned enterprises must be in the hands of the state, so what the state asks you to do, of course, you can only do it, even if it can't make money!
There are pros and cons to this approach, depending on what you think!
Because many projects do not make money, SOEs must share the profits from other places to support these unprofitable places, and if they want to maintain profits, maintain the jobs and jobs of so many people, and ensure that the taxes handed over to the state are not reduced, then they have to raise the price of products.
General enterprises increase the price of products, often means that they will lose the market, because they will face competition from other companies, but for some state-owned enterprises, they are monopoly enterprises, and there are only competitors who also belong to state-owned enterprises in the entire market, so they will not face the problem of losing the market, because they have received such a task, and other enterprises have naturally received such a task, and everyone's price will not be very different, or even exactly the same.
This is tantamount to letting ordinary people take on this part of the business that does not make money and loses money, so everyone will complain, for example, the various costs of disliking China Mobile are too black and too high, and the price of three barrels of oil is too high, much higher than that of a certain country.
From the perspective of ordinary people, such complaints are obviously not wrong, because everyone only needs to compare them and find that the price is unreasonable.
But in fact, if you look at it from another angle, these unreasonable places are also reasonable, or a little more reasonable.
For example, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, the state has given them the task of making every place have a telecommunications signal, and in this way, they must build communication towers in various places, not seeking to cover every inch of China's land, but at least where there are more people living such signal towers.
For the eastern regions, such signal towers are necessary and profitable, especially for cities.
The urban area of a city is only tens or hundreds of square kilometers, often a few signal towers can be covered, and this signal tower can cover hundreds of thousands of people, and the per capita cost is very low, and the telecommunications company must make money.
But what about the rural areas? The rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, and a signal tower can often only cover a village, perhaps less than tens of thousands of people, or even only a few thousand people, and the cost of a signal tower will cost hundreds of thousands or even millions.
And in the vast west, the population density over there is lower, the construction is more difficult, the construction of the signal tower over there, don't think about it, it must be a loss, in terms of the profit-seeking characteristics of businessmen, kill them, they will not invest here, because it is not cost-effective at all, but because the state has a task, so even if the state-owned enterprises do not make money, they must do it, and these areas have signal coverage, local residents, Tourists who travel here will make a profit, and the telecom company will lose money because of this, but this part of the loss will be transferred to every ordinary person, and the fee we pay to the telecom company includes these expenses, for the easterners, this is certainly unreasonable, but for the westerners, it is certainly reasonable.
Like in Western countries, because the telecommunications companies are private enterprises, there are large areas where there is no signal, because no one gives them mandatory orders, and after they calculate the cost, they can judge that they can't make money doing this, so they will naturally not do it, but in this way, the residents living in these places will suffer.
And now, PetroChina's oilfield project, in fact, is also like this, knowing that it is a loss, but it has to grit its teeth to do it, and now it has been invested, if it does not produce oil, it will only lose more.