I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 448: 198-199: The significance of Hillhouse looking up to sales figures! (4000 words)
"Hillhouse hopes to bring everyone a comfortable and intelligent experience that surpasses that of million-dollar luxury cars." The flag set by Hillhouse Group's boss and largest investor Gao Huaijun when he previewed this car more than half a year ago is still vivid in our minds.

At that time, many people laughed at Gao Huaijun, thinking that he was too ambitious and overestimated his own abilities.

Does China have experience in producing high-end car models?
Have!
For example, the national car Hongqi.

But before 2016, this car had more symbolic significance for China.

It won't generate much sales at all.

So having or not having doesn’t make much sense.

And now Hillhouse Capital’s first month’s sales have been released.

It’s 2000 vehicles!
This is the first month that Hillhouse Capital has been looking forward to this product, and it is an achievement achieved while many wealthy people are waiting and watching.

What is this concept?

It is 1/3 of the annual sales volume of Mercedes-Benz G-Class!

This number is very scary.

This means that Hillhouse Capital is looking forward to this car, which will no longer become a model with greater symbolic significance like the national car Hongqi, but a tough weapon that can snatch the fattest cake from these big-name companies in the market!
And now, the implicit support of Hillhouse in the News (River Crab) Broadcast has pushed this signal to the highest point.

There is no way. In the eyes of many national leaders, Hillhouse is now the country's vanguard, so both publicity and government policy support are very clear. Not only Hillhouse, but also other technology-based companies, such as Zhongwei, which is also very popular now, and Dajiang, have also obtained the endorsement of the country.

Building a country through science and technology is more than just a slogan!
In recent days, many internet trolls have been questioning Hillhouse's bragging and claiming that the sales data that Hillhouse looks up to is fake.

But after the news was broadcast on the Internet, such remarks and doubts disappeared.

Who of those who question and look up to the orders has the guts to cheat on the News (river crab) broadcast?

On the contrary, some netizens who support Hillhouse Capital directly refuted the remarks that Hillhouse Capital was a vehicle on old posts.

It directly silenced those water army groups that appeared in groups!
Hillhouse Capital can do some small moves on the Internet, but it dare not try to be clever with the central bank!

This means that the monthly sales figure of 2000 vehicles is true!

The production of 2000 Hillhouse Yangwang cars is equivalent to the sales volume of this car reaching nearly 22 billion yuan within one month.

Then, within a year, relying on the sales momentum of luxury cars, it will not be difficult for the sales of this luxury car to exceed 10 billion!
Many friendly competitors were shocked when they came to this calculation.

Hundreds of billions of luxury car sales and hundreds of billions of A-class car sales are two completely different concepts.

It is very likely that an A-class car worth hundreds of billions of yuan will make a profit of less than 500 million yuan. It is even possible that the company will suffer losses when the accounts are settled at the end of the year.

The sales logic of A-class cars is not profit logic at all.

For this type of vehicle, due to the increasing competition, profits have begun to be postponed, and the steady flow of money generated by repairs at 4S stores has gradually become the mainstream.

It is common practice for 4S stores to charge three times the price of repair parts as compared to original parts, and a difference of four to six times is not uncommon.

To exaggerate a little, Mercedes-Benz's parts-to-whole ratio is 823.59%, which means that the total price of parts for a Mercedes-Benz C-class car exceeds the price of 8 new cars. This is far higher than the market average of 350.93%.

But even so, the sales of A-class cars still rely on large volumes to barely maintain basic operations.

Once sales collapse, it will be the end!

But Hillhouse Capital and Mercedes-Benz G-Class are different.

The profits from the 100 billion yuan in annual sales are divided in half.

This means that Hillhouse can provide higher wages, more jobs, and more infrastructure construction!

There’s no way, I have more money in my pocket!

Moreover, compared with A-class cars, the profit margins are as thin as paper.

This product is more resistant to compression.

The price of Mercedes-Benz G-Class has been increased by so much, so there is no need to play tricks when it comes to price reduction.

People who just watched CCTV’s “News (River) Network”.

They posted their thoughts online.

A Chinese-made car actually made its way onto the CCTV News Network. That's really amazing.

This high-level platform has made the popularity of this already popular model even higher.

It’s directly taking over the screen on Weibo!
At its peak, even the top three topics on Weibo were related to Hillhouse, which is unprecedented.

Even the people who operated Weibo burst into exclamations of disbelief.

You should know that Weibo is an entertainment-oriented website, and the news that dominates its charts are generally more related to entertainment.

There are entries related to economy and industry, but they are basically just one or two on the weekly list and do not dominate the mainstream.

Now that Hillhouse Capital has been able to achieve such strong results, it is really far beyond their expectations.

"I didn't know about the Hillhouse Yangwang before, but it's really popular now. We have a second-generation car here. After buying the Hillhouse Yangwang, the rich father told the family driver that only his son is allowed to drive the Hillhouse Yangwang. No other cars are allowed at all. After all, the family has all kinds of cars, but only one son. Every time he drove out in the past, he was worried about car accidents (a rich friend of his had a son who was disabled while driving a sports car). He didn't feel relieved until he got home safely. Now, when he heard that the Yangwang would not roll over even if the tire was punctured, he immediately paid more and bought one. From then on, he no longer worried about his troublesome son getting into trouble."

“As a car owner that Hachiju looks up to, I hope the people who look up to me will be nicer.”

"This car is really popular now. In the video of car reviewer Wang Yin, it was seen that when people were looking up at others driving sports cars, they would catch up to take pictures and give them a thumbs up. The emotional value was directly maximized."

"It's true. When I see someone looking up at me on the road, I roll down the window to take a photo and post it on WeChat Moments: 'I spotted a big guy', and I don't even want to look at the tires next to me."

"Indeed, children are the most important thing to the wealthy. Once the security attribute is fully utilized, the payment symbol will be enough for Hillhouse to make money. Just thinking about it makes me salivate! With 100 billion yuan in sales and 50 billion yuan in profits per year, this will surpass % of listed companies in seconds."

"50%? That's too little! This car alone can make up for more than 90% of the profits of listed companies! Some listed companies talk about being glamorous, but in fact, even the Panamera they drive is bought with loans! These people are just glamorous in front of others."

Driven by the CCTV News (river crab) broadcast, Hillhouse Capital's car model has become extremely popular across the country.

In the past, the old men and women in their seventies and eighties had no idea what Hillhouse was.

Who would not say, "Hey! I know that company, China's Glory"?
. . . . . .

Just as competitors in the automotive industry were staring at Hillhouse and admiring this product, and had all purchased the finished products of this product, hoping to discover product features that they could absorb and develop on a large scale, another product of Hillhouse was about to be launched.

That is Hillhouse Entertainment’s first product, and also a heavyweight product - "The Wandering Earth"!
This work has attracted much attention due to its high investment amount. Adding up all the investment, it is nearly 600 million, which is far ahead of the second place!

This is not just bragging about the 600 million, but the real 600 million!
To break even with a box office of 18 million, the film would need at least billion. The pressure on Guo Fan is enormous.

You know, in 2016, so far, the movie that ranks first in sales is "The Mermaid" by Hillhouse's old friend Zhou Xingxing, with 34 billion yuan.

But the second place, "Zootopia", only had 15 billion.

Now, "The Wandering Earth", a heavy-industry film product that China has never produced before, needs to make more than 20 billion yuan, especially during the summer vacation, which is a very competitive time. The difficulty is very great.

"Is Director Guo ready now?" Gao Huaijun asked Ning Yuan who was standing beside him.

Although Hillhouse Entertainment has been established for more than two years, it only has one product so far, and Gao Huaijun is still very concerned about this product.

"Director Guo is ready. They are planning to hold the premiere of this product in Shanghai." Ning Yuan answered directly.

He was very skeptical about this work at first, wondering what a romance film director could possibly produce.

However, now he has deep respect for Guo Fan.

He can actually handle such a large-scale science fiction film.

Now it’s even finished.

He was also deeply shocked by Gao Huaijun's vision.

It would be fine if he had such a sharp eye in the field of technology, but investing in movies is a high-risk industry where basically nine out of ten investments are losses. Many people regard it as a money laundering industry, but he can watch people for so long. He can only be described as a god of business.

Gao Huaijun seemed to have no idea what Ning Yuan was thinking, he nodded slightly.

"I won't go to the premiere. You can go on my behalf and say hello to Director Guo for me." Gao Huaijun didn't seem to want to show his face in public on such an occasion. He said to Ning Yuan.

Hillhouse Entertainment is the most low-key subsidiary of Hillhouse so far.

But it will soon shine brightly!
Movies have such a strong ability to promote things that ordinary soft advertisements cannot compare with them.

In many people's minds, the United States is an ideal country that exists today, is powerful and sensitive, and it is thanks to Hollywood's continuous publicity day after day.

He now wants to treat Hillhouse Entertainment as his own Hollywood and all practitioners in this industry as his own resources to lay the best foundation for Hillhouse's global development!

Half a month later, at 8 o'clock during prime time, the premiere officially began.

Today, Guo Fan invited Han Sanli and other bigwigs, as well as some theater bosses and science fiction fans, and the three groups of people screened the finished film of "The Wandering Earth" together.

In Gao Huaijun's eyes, this movie can be called a milestone work in Chinese science fiction films. It was released in 2019, three years ahead of schedule from 2016.

At this time, after Guo Fan and Han Sanli gave their speeches, the lights at the scene slowly dimmed.

Compared to another classic science fiction movie "Interstellar", the pace of this movie is very fast.

After playing for less than ten minutes, the show entered the stage of Earth's wandering journey away from the orbit of the solar system.

The people at the scene couldn't help but exclaim.

This environment is rendered so realistically!
There are a lot of special effects movies in China, oh no, most of them are shoddy stuff.

What kind of 50-cent special effects are there of a galloping horse? It makes people feel like the play is out of place.

In this era, realistically rendered animations of heavy industry are almost exclusively the preserve of Hollywood films.

But now this drama has an almost full-tempo rhythm, and the perfect interpretation of the so-called saturation rescue and the law of the dark jungle makes the audience present unable to take their eyes off and shout that it is so exciting.

In Gao Huaijun's previous life, the special effects of the movie "The Wandering Earth" were barely completed thanks to Guo Fan's perseverance, hard work, and the final sponsorship of Wu Jing, but many details in it are still very rough.

But this time, it was thanks to Gao Huaijun's investment of several hundred million and the strong sponsorship of China Film Company.

This movie has neither a shortage of people nor a shortage of money. Its completeness is much better than its previous life. Its stunts and costumes are also on a higher level.

This also makes "The Wandering Earth" much more complete than all the movies of the same era!

Before coming here, many people were worried about this work, fearing that the 600 million yuan investment would have no chance of being recovered.

Although "The Mermaid" had a box office of more than 3 billion yuan, it was achieved by selling emotions and creating an atmosphere where everyone owed Stephen Chow a movie ticket.

Moreover, this movie is the box office champion in China's history!

It broke the box office record of Chinese movies!

It is really impossible to imagine that another movie will break China's box office record half a year later.

However, the quality of "The Wandering Earth" is far beyond their expectations, and it has also made theater chains such as Wanda Cinema and Dadi Cinema have inexplicable expectations for this movie!

Who doesn't want to make money?
The cinema chain earns 1/2 of the profit.

If this movie becomes a hit, it will make a ton of money!

In addition, the movie also has several shots specifically reserved for Gao Ling looking up, which also made them feel extremely amazed.

The fierce blocking battle on the ice field on the surface of the Wandering Earth and the powerful driving performance while driving through the frozen magic city left a deep impression on these big guys.

A real-life car model does not seem out of place in a science fiction movie.

The sense of incongruity is an element that every responsible director takes very seriously and tries his best to avoid.

What does this show?

This shows that the product power is really strong!
Even a few bigwigs in the entertainment industry who were present felt itchy and wanted to buy a Hillhouse after seeing it and hearing the introduction of the people next to them.

At the last moment when the last cast came out to announce the show, the lights in the venue suddenly lit up, and everyone in the audience stood up and applauded at the same time.

The whole room applauded, and it could even be said to be outstanding.

The premiere of "The Wandering Earth" was a complete success!
Next, we will have to wait and see how The Wandering Earth performs after its release.

(End of this chapter)