Chapter Ninety-Nine: The First Official Assembly
On June 27, this day is also the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, and every Chinese person on the streets of Singapore seems to be elated, because early in the morning, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which has not yet been formally established, launched the first activity to benefit the people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNearly 5 million Singaporeans, each of whom can receive two free rice dumplings.
On the streets of Singapore, there are more than 2,000 distribution points, even tourists, can eat free zongzi, this measure alone, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has prepared 15 million zongzi to distribute throughout the country.
At the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore, all the intersections around the city were guarded by the police on this day, and only those with passes issued by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were allowed to enter this area.
More than 500 media outlets, each with only two people allowed to enter, entered the designated area of the stadium under the unified arrangement of the organizing committee.
Chinese groups from all over the world, government observation groups, also have to face strict entry and exit regulations to operate in designated areas.
There is no way around it, the Singapore National Stadium is being rebuilt, and the large-scale stadium with advanced equipment is currently the largest here. Even the Singapore Indoor Stadium can only accommodate 12,000 people, which is not enough to meet the more than 15,000 Chinese businessmen who attended.
It's not bigger than a stadium, but it's a full-fledged convention centre with simultaneous interpretation in over 15 languages, and the second largest restaurant in Singapore, which can accommodate up to 10,000 people.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began, and Zhou You, who became a father again, as the initiator, expounded on the original intention and significance of the establishment of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on the stage, diluted political factors, and emphasized the commercial significance.
The organizational outline report of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhou You spent two hours to elaborate, from the history of Chinese businessmen, the significance of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the organizational structure of the Chamber of Commerce, the role of the Chamber of Commerce, etc., to comprehensively convey the business purpose of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to the outside world.
Since there are no interviews with reporters and no media interviews, there is no other noise. However, in terms of the self-protection measures of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Zhou You knows very well that he will face criticism and pressure from the outside world, because the current power in his hands is a little too big, and it will already make the outside world afraid.
In the past, although the forces of Zhou You were large, they were still subject to many restrictions, such as his security company, most of which were people from other countries, and his military service company, the proportion of Chinese was also very small.
The deterrent effect of this force is greater than the actual effect, and if it really encounters pressure and difficulties, its power can actually play a small role, because the loyalty of these people is questionable.
However, if these military forces are combined with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the power that can explode will directly rise to a higher level. Because there are so many Chinese in the world, these people are united, and all countries in Southeast Asia will be afraid of it.
Moreover, if Zhou Yi deliberately cultivates the military strength of the Chinese, it will also pose a great threat to regional stability.
In order to downplay this situation, Zhou You also gave up most of his power, and will not hold any position in this chamber of commerce, but only supervise and protect this chamber of commerce as a member of the board of supervisors. Moreover, his military strength will not be directly related to the Chamber of Commerce, at most he will only accept the employment of the Chamber of Commerce to protect the properties of some members of the Chamber of Commerce.
After the tour, representatives of Chinese businessmen from Southeast Asian countries also took the stage one by one, explaining the need to establish a well-organized chamber of commerce from various angles.
At the end of the two-day meeting, the Chamber of Commerce collected its first membership fee and made four resolutions.
The first resolution is that the Chamber of Commerce will take Singapore as its headquarters to raise funds to build the headquarters of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and the future headquarters of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce will be built into a convention and exhibition center that can accommodate 30,000 people at the same time, and a regular annual meeting will be held during the Spring Festival every year.
The second resolution states that the Chamber of Commerce will improve its power structure and organizational rules in the next three months, and will elect its management at the first general meeting during the Chinese New Year.
The entire management is elected annually for a term of one year, and no one can be re-elected, and the management has only administrative rights, not economic rights.
The third resolution is that the Chamber of Commerce will jointly establish China Commercial Bank within half a year, and all members who join the Chamber of Commerce will become shareholders of the bank according to the proportion of shares subscribed. This bank will not carry out commercial development, and the sole purpose of its existence is to serve all Chinese businessmen, and it will only provide internal financing and borrowing, and will not acquire any of its members' assets and equity by any means.
In the fourth resolution, the security company will become a long-term partner of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and provide security protection for the members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
In order to avoid secrecy, although Zhou You cannot occupy any position in the management of the Chinese Commercial Chamber of Commerce, he will be responsible for the formation of the Chinese Commercial Bank, and he will be a member of the board of supervisors, and his power is no worse than anyone else.
The establishment of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has aroused strong repercussions around the world, although in the Chinese circle, this chamber of commerce has been very popular, but in the world, it is also facing a lot of pressure.
Throughout the second half of 2009, Zhou You has been doing PR all over the world. Whether it is the United States, Europe, or Southeast Asian countries, he visited almost every country one by one and conducted a series of public relations with the people in power.
Regardless of whether they oppose it or support it, at the very least, the resolution will not change, and in such a situation, it is very important to reach an understanding with some countries.
The initial capital of China Commercial Bank is a total of 10 billion US dollars drawn from each of the 16 Chinese business families in Southeast Asia. Zhou You also took out $4 billion in cash at one time, totaling $14 billion as the original share capital, to establish this bank.
As it is not a commercial bank, the bank will not be open to the public, with only one head office in Singapore and 11 branches in Southeast Asian countries and large commercial cities.
Although 14 billion yuan is not sufficient, in the initial stage, these funds can play a significant role. Because this bank mainly supports small Chinese businesses, the real big family can borrow from commercial banks even if they need funds.
At the end of the year, the first official meeting of Chinese entrepreneurs was officially held on January 1 at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Malaysia, while the stadium in Singapore was being rebuilt, and the other venues, due to their limited capacity, could not meet the needs of tens of thousands of attendees.
In Indonesia alone, there are 170 Chinese businessmen who own large consortia or group enterprises, more than 5,000 medium-sized business operators, and more than 300,000 small practitioners. Even if most of them don't meet the threshold for joining the Chamber of Commerce, many would rather borrow money and pay membership dues to join.
Not to mention that in addition to Indonesia, there are also Chinese businessmen from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, and Vietnam. Only Wanwan and Chinese businessmen, for political reasons, were not allowed to join this time, but they were also allowed to send representatives to observe.
Over the course of the conference, more than 80,000 people attended, and more than S$2 billion was collected in the first year of membership alone. The S$2 billion, together with a S$2 billion loan from a Singapore bank, will purchase a plot of land in the Bay Area to build a modern venue with a capacity of 50,000 people. It also includes the construction of a bank headquarters.
For this venue, due to the requirements of the conference, each seat will have a direct voting machine, a loudspeaker connected to the main console, so the cost of this conference center will be more than the cost of a stadium with 100,000 people.
Thankfully, the Singapore government had sold the land almost half-way, otherwise the money would not have been enough to build another bank building.
The Chamber of Commerce elected the management of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, headed by the richest man in Malaysia, Kwok Ho Nian, and the number of vice presidents is 20, who are responsible for the business integration of different industries. Among them, Lin Wutong and Pan Guangnian, old acquaintances who traveled around, were elected vice presidents.
In addition, there is a decision-making team of more than 500 people, a monitoring team of more than 500 people, and a business liaison team of 2,000 people, which is dedicated to dealing with the practical problems encountered by each member.
All the management of the Chamber of Commerce, including the inspection team and the liaison team, are all volunteers, and there is not a penny of salary except for basic living allowance and travel expenses. And except for the members of the liaison group, who can be re-elected, the rest of the people have to be replaced every year.
Although the personnel of the liaison group do not receive salaries, they are a good place to train people. In order to cultivate their own offspring and to take more initiative in the Chamber of Commerce, before the meeting began, there were only 2,000 places, but the number of applicants had reached 20,000. Almost one out of two members has their child registered.
Due to the first time to organize such a big event, even though there are countless veterans in the chamber of commerce, there are still a lot of mistakes in this conference. However, these omissions also became interesting stories at this time, and the newspapers of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce published these anecdotes, resulting in the circulation of 100,000 copies of the newspaper of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Luoyang for a while.
In addition to more than 40,000 members, the newspaper and website of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce are also distributed to the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and the trial edition of 100,000 copies is not enough to sell.
When the chamber of commerce stabilizes, it will open its own TV station in the future, which is also mainly focused on business and economics, and will not involve politics and entertainment.
The first year's membership fee will be used for the construction of a new headquarters building and conference center, the loan will be repaid in the first three years, and from the fourth year onwards, all membership fees will be deducted from no more than 30 per cent of the operating costs, and the remaining half of the funds will be used to support members and carry out charitable activities, and half will be used for security services to provide business protection for all members.
The Bukit Jalil Sports Centre is the largest stadium in Malaysia, with a capacity of 100,000 spectators, but for four full days, it was almost full. In addition to these members, almost all countries and organizations in the world sent people to observe the conference.
Although the Chinese Chamber of Commerce has not yet exposed its fangs, everyone knows that after the Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia are united, they will surpass ordinary small countries in terms of human and material resources.
Not to mention anything else, the assets of the top ten richest Chinese in Southeast Asian countries and regions combined, there are hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, and the economic benefits generated by annual economic and trade exchanges are at least hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions of dollars.
The establishment of this huge force has given countless Chinese businessmen the backbone and made them taboo in these countries. The Chinese already controlled half of the economy here, and I am afraid it will be even more difficult to control it in the future.
During the whole meeting, Zhou You has been very low-key, and all the things that are in the limelight are given to others. But everyone knows that Zhou You will be the most profitable person after the establishment of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Not to mention anything else, the security expenses provided by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce alone are nearly 5 billion yuan a year, which can greatly expand his power, not to mention, his future security company will no longer lack soldiers.
When the first formal meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce ended, the news media around the world analyzed the living environment of Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia from various angles. There are many critics and critics, and some media even criticize the establishment of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce with the yellow peril theory.
Whatever their attitude, there is one thing that no one will deny, and that is that another large force has risen strongly.
After attending this conference, Zhou Yu disappeared from everyone's sight. In the past six months, he has been dedicating himself to making suggestions for the formation of the Chamber of Commerce, facing various forces with different positions, trying his best to dredge up all aspects of the relationship and strive to reach an understanding, which has kept him under great pressure.
Now that the Chamber of Commerce has been officially established, he has also rented a building in Singapore as a temporary liaison office, so he doesn't have to worry about everything, and he also needs to take a good rest.
However, instead of looking for a place to vacation, he came to Colombia and boarded the Ranger, which he hadn't been on for two years, to be a captain for a while.
The Ranger found the sunken San Jose in the Caribbean Sea, which touched the nerves of the three South American countries and Spain, and Zhou You promised that all the antiques would be distributed by these countries through negotiation, and he would only charge 10% of the labor fee to keep the basic expenses.
Although the treasure on the San Jose was assessed at more than one billion dollars, at this time, even two billion dollars were not in the eyes of Zhou You at all. Apple's stock gains in a year alone have increased the value of its assets by more than $2 billion.
The salvage of the San Jose has been going on for almost two years, and it is not easy to salvage the antiques scattered everywhere on the seabed of 200 square kilometers and up to 2,000 meters deep.