After returning to Hutchison, Chen Zhiwen called Zhou Jiayang and said: "Two things are arranged for you to do, first, TVB needs to invest in building a cinema in Tseung Kwan O, but the Hong Kong government has not approved it, so we buy our own land for construction, commercial land, as long as the location is not too remote." Second, I want to increase the number of overseas distribution channels for TVB, what do you think? ”

"Buying land in Tseung Kwan O is not a problem, even if there is no large area of land, if you buy those old houses and compensate the locals, you can do it, but I don't know how much land Chen Sheng is going to buy?" Zhou Jiayang asked after thinking for a moment.

"Let's try to collect 1 million square feet first, the area is larger, and it is always more convenient to build it at one time." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

The current Shaw Brothers Cinema has an area of almost 500,000 square feet, and since it is going to be built, it is natural to build a bigger one, and because the new one must be newer, it is more in line with the current aesthetics, so that we can be prepared enough for the outbreak of Hong Kong movies and TV series in the 80s.

You must know that as a loyal fan of TVB TV, what made Chen Zhiwen complain the most was the simple shooting style of TVB TV series, a piece of clothing Golden Wheel Dharma King wore it, Xuan Ming and the two elders wore it, and Xiang Shaolong also wore it. This may also have a lot to do with Shao Yifu's picking, but the limitations of its own hardware are also one of them.

"1 million square feet, if you choose a place where the land is a little more partial, 20 or 30 million Hong Kong dollars is enough." Zhou Jiayang thought about it and said, now Hong Kong's land prices are beginning to pick up, the ordinary house price on Hong Kong Island is more than 300, the Kowloon Peninsula is about 200, and the Tseung Kwan O is naturally only about 100, but here is talking about commercial housing, and the construction of a cinema naturally does not need to be in a place with many people or good commercial facilities, Tseung Kwan O is so big, just find a piece with fewer people, 1 million square feet, in fact, it is not much, a radius of 300 meters.

"It is estimated that there will be more than so many movie theater constructions." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "Although this matter is not very urgent, it is better to find the land as soon as possible and buy it." ”

After all, the outbreak of Hong Kong TV dramas will have to wait for at least 5 years, but the land is more urgent, not to mention that after two or three years, that is, in another half a year, the wind of property speculation in Hong Kong will blow again, and countless scalpers are scrambling to buy house qualifications, and various real estate pre-sale offices will start queuing late at night.

At that time, it will be a bit difficult to get another piece of land with a large area.

"Okay, I'll go to Tseung Kwan O tomorrow," Zhou Jiayang nodded in agreement.

Chen Zhiwen asked: "What do you think about increasing TVB's overseas distribution channels?" ”

"It's a bit difficult, the easiest way is to find overseas local people to cooperate, we produce content and they make connections and make money together, but TVB content can only have a market in places like Chinatown." Zhou Jiayang frowned and said.

"Overseas Chinatowns, in fact, the market is also very large, it is estimated that there are tens of millions of Chinese in Europe and the United States alone, which is several times that of Hong Kong, if this market can be developed well, it will be very beneficial to the development of TVB." Chen Zhiwen said.

Zhou Jiayang nodded and said, "That's the case, but Chinatowns are too scattered, they are all over the world, and they are also in every big city. ”

"That's why it's more troublesome, even if Hong Kong movies are sold abroad, you can only find Southeast Asian countries, and you can't go to Europe and the United States, because the people are too scattered, and you can't gather them when you watch movies." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, if European, American and Chinese can contribute to the Hong Kong box office, then even if Hollywood movies invaded in the 90s, Hong Kong films may not decline, as long as they can still make money, then there will be no fault line in talent, and they may be able to survive until the 21st century.

Relatively speaking, Hong Kong TV dramas have been supported for a longer time, because of the mainland market, TVB also produced many classic TV series in the 00s, which are very popular in the mainland, such as "Looking for Qin", "Love Through Time and Space", "Golden Branch Desire", "Sister Tuogun", "Legal Pioneer", etc., also has a very strong team of actors, but it still declined after 10 years, but unlike Hong Kong movies, Hong Kong TV dramas declined because the actors' treatment was too poor, and all these people came to the mainland after the contract expired.

"If it's just selling music, in fact, we can find a way to open up the channels of Chinese supermarkets in Europe and the United States, and the Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown basically cover all the local Chinese." Zhou Jiayang thought for a while and said.

"Chinese supermarket? That's a good idea. Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, the Chinese group, the living habits are too different from Westerners, a large number of unaccustomed to bring business opportunities, many Chinese have vision and courage, so they naturally opened supermarkets, imported goods from Asia, and then sold them in Europe and the United States, and their customers are also Chinese. This is suitable for TVB to sell music.

Zhou Jiayang said: "But there are many of these Chinese supermarkets, and we still need to find a local Chinese to be in charge of the channel." ”

"Okay, let's try it, let's start with the US, you get a few people from the sales team in the US, and let them take care of this." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, in fact, it is not a big deal in itself, just arrange someone to do it.

"Well, the team of Midea and Red Bull in the United States is also a local expert, and such people should be found." Zhou Jiayang said that although TVB's net profit in a year is less than a medium-sized real estate under Hutchison, he knows that his boss attaches great importance to TVB, and its media characteristics far exceed its profit characteristics.

"Is the Galaxy Headquarters Building ready to start?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"Yes, the drawings of the building designed by Master Pei Jinming for us, I sent it to another third-party construction agency to verify its safety, and I have received a positive reply, this building is safe, the initial budget construction cost is 130 million Hong Kong dollars, a total of 49 floors, 43 floors above, 6 floors underground, a total construction area of 888,000 square feet, is expected to be completed by the end of next year." Zhou Jiayang replied.

"Okay, it's a little slower, but we finally have our own headquarters building." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

The design of an office building itself takes several months, and with a master-level figure like Pei Jinming, other businesses must be busy, so it was not until last month that Pei Jinming sent someone to deliver the drawings of the Galaxy headquarters building.

Naturally, no one understands this kind of drawing, so it was sent to a third-party company in Europe for review to ensure safety and energy saving.

By this month, I got a positive answer, that is, the Galaxy headquarters building can start construction.

"Yes, recently, the people over there in the United States have become crowded again, Lei Shengli asked me for a small office building in Hehuang, and with a little decoration, it can accommodate hundreds of people." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

"Yes, beauty is developing too fast." Chen Zhiwen frowned and said, the development is too fast, and there are their own troubles, not that there is no place to rent, but that you need to rent a short-term office building, which is not easy to find, as he knows, the future ByteDance, in 13-15 years, will have to change the office every few months, because the speed of ByteDance's development is far more than Zhang Yiming's prediction every time.

Zhou Jiayang thought for a while and said: "It's really a bit difficult to wait for another year and a half, so let's find a larger office building and let Midea move over, how about it?" ”

The landlord in Hong Kong is Hongkong Land, and although Hutchison is also one of the four major foreign firms, he did not care about the self-owned commercial office building before, and the entire Central Building is also used by himself.

"Actually, it doesn't have to be in Central, we have a shuttle bus anyway, even if we move to Kowloon." Chen Zhiwen thought about it and said, the current beauty no longer needs to stay in Central to reflect its value.

"Okay, I understand." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said.

(End of chapter)