Rebirth of the Wild Age

CCTV China Economic Person of the Year, sponsored by the "Economy Half Hour" column, this year belongs to the first session. In addition, it took the lead in launching the online voting mode. A total of more than 1.237 million netizens voted for candidates, and then 100 economists and 50 financial journalists acted as judges, and finally selected 10 economic figures of the year.

The program will be aired on New Year's Day, but since it was recorded and broadcast, the real awarding time is December 28.

The awards ceremony was held at the Capital Hotel, perhaps because it was the first time, even the dinner was not prepared. The winners and judges who came from other places stayed in the hotel arranged by CCTV early on, and they could only eat the buffet until tonight, and they left after the awards were over.

I have to say that CCTV is very stingy!

Just like the Spring Festival Gala in previous years, the performance fee is only enough for round-trip air tickets and accommodation. Big-name stars have to lose money to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, and pay the accompanying assistants out of their own pockets.

Song Weiyang took Chen Tao, Shen Si and Hong Weiguo to the hotel after having dinner in the courtyard, and was guided to the lounge by the staff.

"Boss Song, long time no see." Wang Shitou greeted him proactively.

Song Weiyang walked over with a smile, hugged Wang Shitou, exchanged some pleasantries, then turned to shake hands with Zhang Ruiming and said, "Mr. Zhang, I wish you a Happy New Year in advance."

"Boss Song is too polite," Zhang Ruiming said quickly, "I wish you a happy New Year too."

Wang Shitou pointed to the seat by the wall and said, "Mr. Wu is over there."

Song Weiyang nodded and said: "I saw it as soon as I came in. Mr. Wu is surrounded by the most people, so let's not join in the fun for now."

Among the 10 winners of Mr. Wu this year, the only pure scholar, most of the others are business executives, and there is also a chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

At this moment, Mr. Wu and the chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission were sitting on chairs, surrounded by more than a dozen financial people, and even financial reporters took the opportunity to interview.

On the other side of the lounge, President Liu of Lenovo was chatting with Boss Zhang of Dongfang Group, and the boss of Qingyu Beer was joking with the boss of Hisense.

Suddenly a few more people came in, the leader was Mr. Tian of Netcom, and Song Weiyang immediately went over to say hello.

The boss of Netcom has to pay for it, because Song Weiyang still wants to make online games, and the telecommunications servers in the north are too slow, so only Netcom can retain players.

"Hello Mr. Tian!" Song Weiyang smiled and shook hands.

Mr. Tian said with a smile: "Boss Song, I have admired your name for a long time, and today I finally met a real person!"

Song Weiyang said, "Each to each other."

Mr. Tian said a few casual words, and then ran directly to Mr. Liu. Obviously, he had an unusual relationship with Mr. Liu, and later even became a non-executive director of Lenovo.

After a brief exchange with each other, the 10 recipients were clearly divided into three small groups; one was the financial group, headed by Mr. Wu and Mr. Liang; the other was the electronics and communication group, headed by Mr. Liu and Mr. Tian. The members of the association are also attached there; one is a group of industrialists, and the core figures are the bosses of Haier, Hisense and Lantau Beer, and it happens that these three are all from Lantau City.

Song Weiyang didn't go anywhere, just sat in the corner playing with his mobile phone, talking to Chen Tao and Shen Si from time to time.

There were also 50 financial journalists in the break room, all of whom were judges for the event. These people chatted with the bosses everywhere, and Song Weiyang was certainly not let go. Several people asked him to do an exclusive interview on another day.

"Boss Song, didn't I bother you?" A young man in his 30s came over.

Song Weiyang nodded and smiled: "Hello."

The young man adjusted his glasses, took out his business card and said, "I am Wu Xiaobo, a reporter from the Zhejiang Branch of Xinhua News Agency. I graduated from Fudan Journalism Department in 1990."

Song Weiyang immediately shook hands and said, "Hello senior, I have long admired your name!"

"I don't dare to be a big name, I only have a little reputation in the circle," Wu Xiaobo said, "I have always wanted to interview Boss Song, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity. This is a great regret in my heart."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I'm afraid you have interviewed more than 90% of the well-known entrepreneurs in China?"

Wu Xiaobo said: "It should be 50%."

Song Weiyang said: "Among all the financial writers in China, I like your articles the most. The information is detailed, the viewpoints are novel, serious, and the whole text is full of agility."

Wu Xiaobo said: "I am very happy to receive such a high evaluation from Boss Song."

Song Weiyang suddenly smiled and said, "After all, you are a senior, so of course you have to say something nice when you meet for the first time."

Wu Xiaobo pointed at him casually: "Qin Shuo over there is also an alumnus. He was in the same class as me at Fudan University and was admitted to graduate school at the same time. He is now the editor-in-chief of "Nanfengchuang"."

Song Weiyang said: "I will treat the two seniors to dinner another day, and accept your interview by the way. Anyway, this interview cannot escape."

Wu Xiaobo was very discerning. When another reporter came over, he took the initiative to leave and give up his seat.

After waiting for about half an hour, everyone was taken to the hotel's auditorium. Ten winners and award presenters sat in the front row, economists and financial reporters sat in the second row, Chen Tao, Shen Si, Hong Weiguo and other friends of the winners sat in the back.

The hosts are a man and a woman, both of whom are guest hosts of "Half an Hour of Economics". The man's name is Zhao He, and the woman's name is Wang Xiaoya.

Zhao He's hosting style is more stable, while Wang Xiaoya's hosting style is more lively, and the two complement each other perfectly. This year is the first one. The host first talked about the original intention of the selection event, and then introduced several important award presenters, and finally started to get down to business.

There is no big screen on site, let alone VCR, and the host can only read the winners' resumes and award words.

Mr. Liu of Lenovo was the first to receive the award, followed by the chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and Song Weiyang's name was the third... The rankings are in no particular order, and the order is arranged directly with the pinyin of the names, so that no one excuse me.

"Let's applaud and welcome the award presenter, Chairman Yu of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade!" the host Zhao He said loudly.

President Yu, wearing a loose suit, walked in from the side of the stage with a wave, shook hands with the host Zhao He and stood side by side.

Zhao He asked with a smile: "The winner who will be announced soon, he has created many firsts in China, and he is also very famous in society. Can President Yu guess who this person is?"

Chairman Yu said: "This year's 10 candidates are all well-known, and they have all created China's No. 1. Your question is too broad."

"Then listen to me read the award speech," Zhao He said in a standard broadcast tone, "he is the idol of contemporary Chinese youth entrepreneurship. In the business tide of reform and opening up, he has been a trendy person since he was 17 years old. He owns the first A private enterprise listed overseas, the agricultural cooperation model created by this enterprise has helped more than 80,000 farmers across the country increase their income..."

After the award speech was read for three minutes, Zhao He asked, "President Yu, do you know who it is now?"

President Yu smiled and said, "Boss Song from Xifeng, I met him yesterday."

Zhao He was surprised and said, "Did you meet him yesterday?"

Chairman Yu nodded and said: "Yes. We are discussing something that is beneficial to the development of many domestic enterprises. It is going smoothly. As for the content, we will know next year."

"It seems to be a very good thing again," Zhao He said, "President Yu, please come and announce it officially."

President Yu slowly opened the envelope: "Song Weiyang won the first CCTV Economic Person of the Year!"

"Papa papa!"

Song Weiyang stepped onto the podium amidst applause and took the trophy from President Yu: "Thanks to CCTV, Thanks to "Half an Hour of Economy", and also to President Yu. At that time, we should be more grateful to the country, there was no reform and opening up I would not have had the opportunity to accept the award on stage today without my great decision. Thank you!"

"Okay, let's leave the stage to Mr. Song Weiyang." Zhao He said and left with Chairman Yu.

Wang Xiaoya immediately stepped onto the podium, stood beside Song Weiyang and said, "Mr. Song, choose one. Are you going to give a speech on a topic, or accept an on-site interview?"

The topic selection speech means that there are ten topics in the envelope, and the winners randomly choose one to give a speech, and the on-site interview is an interview with Wang Xiaoya.

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "Let's interview on the spot, chatting with beautiful women is very pleasant."

"It's a great honor," Wang Xiaoya opened the note in his hand, "Mr. Song, there are 5 questions on this note, all selected from the questions asked by netizens. The first question, how much money do you have?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The audience roared with laughter, because this topic is very popular, and it is often discussed in print media and online forums.

Song Weiyang asked: "Do you really want to answer?"

Wang Xiaoya said: "I think this is what everyone here and the people of the whole country want to know. Of course, Mr. Song can also choose to keep it secret."

Song Weiyang said, "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Wang Xiaoya asked in surprise.

Song Weiyang said: "I really don't know, I don't want to deliberately conceal it. Xifeng Company and China Science and Technology, these two companies, I haven't touched money for a long time, and I haven't even counted the shareholders' dividends that are transferred into the account every year. Taurus Capital has invested in many projects, and the value of these projects requires professional financial personnel to make statistics. Take Google in the United States as an example. It was valued at more than one billion U.S. dollars a year ago, but now it has dropped to several hundred million U.S. dollars , these assets are changing at any time."

Wang Xiaoya summed it up: "That is to say, you have too much money to count?"

"That's not the case. You can still count clearly if you count carefully." Song Weiyang said.

Wang Xiaoya said: "Counting money is also a trouble."

Song Weiyang said: "Indeed."

Wang Xiaoya said: "I also want to have this trouble."

"Hahaha!"

The scene burst into laughter again.

Wang Xiaoya said: "Then, let's put it another way. You ranked second in this year's Hurun Report, and your personal assets are estimated at 10 billion yuan. If you roughly estimate, the real data is more than 10 billion yuan, or more than 100 million yuan. How many billions?"

Song Weiyang said: "More."

"A lot?" Wang Xiaoya reconfirmed.

Song Weiyang said: "Anyway, when Hurun made statistics, it was guessing wildly, and I am guessing wildly now, it depends on who you believe."

Several other bosses laughed, because Hu Run's guessing statement obviously hit their point of laughter.

Wang Xiaoya added: "The second question from netizens is, what is your biggest worry?"

Song Weiyang said solemnly: "You are too handsome."

"Ah?" Wang Xiaoya was stunned.

Song Weiyang said with a serious expression: "I have a friend named Ma Xiaoyun. He always tells people that a man's wisdom is inversely proportional to his appearance, which is equivalent to judging my IQ as negative. I usually dare not go out for fear of being caught by a girl." Onlookers, it’s not good to make people lovesick. Among today’s 10 winners, I don’t dare to say the first, but I must be the most handsome. So when they were in the lounge before, they all sat Chatting together, leaving me alone in the corner playing with my phone, it's so cool to be isolated by everyone."

The other nine winners sat under the stage, all smiling, all amused by Song Weiyang's shamelessness.

Wang Xiaoya searched his brains for words and said: "Well...Mr. Song is very humorous and very confident. People who are humorous and confident can often achieve success."

Song Weiyang said: "Thank you host for helping me sum up my successful experience."

There was laughter again at the scene, and those who didn't know it thought it was a talk show.

Wang Xiaoya couldn't hold it anymore, Song Weiyang's thinking was too out of the ordinary, and he quickly retracted it and said: "The third question from the netizen, as the world's richest man, Bill Gates donated 16 billion US dollars worth of money in 1999 In 2000, he donated 5.1 billion worth of stocks. As a rich man in China, how does Mr. Song view charity? How much do you plan to donate?"

This question may seem presumptuous, but CCTV is very measured, because they have investigated and know that Song Weiyang makes charitable donations every year, which is equivalent to helping Song Weiyang promote a positive image in disguise.

Song Weiyang did not follow the routine at all: "The 20 billion US dollars donated by Bill Gates is a reasonable means of tax avoidance."

The faces of the program director and Wang Xiaoya suddenly changed at the same time, and hundreds of people at the scene were also surprised. They were all in disbelief at Song Weiyang's answer—not surprised by Bill Gates' tax avoidance, but surprised by Song Weiyang's daring to say anything .

Wang Xiaoya smiled and said, "Why is it a tax avoidance method?"

Song Weiyang said: "This is not what I said, it was said by the US "Fortune" magazine. American charitable funds are tax-exempt, and charitable funds can be used for investment. Bill Gates' donations are all donated to the fund in his own name. .These donations have no exact purpose, which means that the money is still his own, but with a different name. Of course, I appreciate Bill Gates’ charitable actions. Although he may be for tax avoidance, he will definitely use these Charity with money can help many people in need. As for when netizens ask me when to donate, I donate every year, but it’s just a few million donations, unlike Bill Gates who donates tens of billions at once. U.S. dollars. Don’t ask me about charity in the future, otherwise it’s just a show if I talk too much.”

Wang Xiaoya is completely at a loss now. Song Weiyang has been informed of the program schedule in advance, and even if Song Weiyang chooses to give a speech, the topic of the "random" speech will be revealed in advance. The first two winners are very stable, but Song Weiyang is talking nonsense, Wang Xiaoya said with lingering fear: "The fourth question, do you have confidence in the upcoming 2001 Chinese economy?"

Song Weiyang said: "All kinds of data show that China's economy in 2001 will be completely out of the woods. Entrepreneurs can take action. Opportunities are everywhere next year. It just depends on whether you have the ability and luck to seize it!"

Wang Xiaoya finally breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't dare to make jokes anymore, so he quickly asked the fifth question.

Today's awards ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet. When Song Weiyang said that Bill Gates' donation was a tax avoidance, it directly caused the netizens to quarrel. Because there is no such thing as charitable tax avoidance at all, Bill Gates’ donation of 20 billion U.S. dollars has been praised to the sky, and I don’t know how many Chinese people admire and admire it.

Many netizens chose not to believe this news of refreshing the Three Views, and even scolded Song Weiyang for using the heart of a villain to judge a gentleman's belly. As a result, Song Weiyang's supporters retorted, and the two sides sparred darkly on the Internet.