As a former employee of Sunshine Resort and the Management Committee, I think the answer to this question is (Editor’s note: Refers to the question “How do you view entrepreneur Mao Zhenhua’s public accusation against Heilongjiang Yabuli Management Committee?”) It couldn't be more appropriate.
Let’s talk about sunshine first.
The predecessor of Sunshine Resort is Windmill Villa. As the first commercial ski resort in China, it can be said to have dominated the scene in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, advertisements for "Go Skiing in Yabuli" were overwhelming in the south. In those years, Yabuli It can be said that people make a lot of money.
Then in 1994, China International Futures Brokerage Co., Ltd. invested 300 million to build the reception venues needed for the third Asian Winter Games, but like most investments made for the event, the Asian Winter Games The Winter Games have passed, infrastructure investment has been too large, the number of skiers is small, and business operations are in a downturn.
China International Futures Brokerage Co., Ltd. ran out of money until 2006 and could no longer afford it. Together with Western Real Estate, it invited Hong Kong's Melco Group to acquire Windmill Villa and invest 1.2 billion to build infrastructure. As of 2009 The reception venue for the annual Winter Games was renamed Sunshine at this time.
Then, just like last time, after the Great Winter Party, I hit the streets again. At that time, Sunshine had 800 million yuan in debt and 400 million yuan in bank loans, and the annual interest alone was 37 million yuan. However, the Chinese ski market was only so big at that time, so even if it was full, the money earned was not enough to pay the interest. It would lose more than 70 million yuan every year. The attack was very thorough.
Then why does Melco want to invest? Melco is the company of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho. In fact, people don’t care about the money. There is a saying that when they invested in Yangguan, they wanted to be the first in the mainland in the snowy mountains. The casino is remote and hidden, and you can also go skiing. It is a perfect place for the rich. It is a pity that this gap has not been opened, but it seems that Melco does not care too much about it.
And how miserable was Yangguan after 2009? At the beginning of 2010, the bank even closed down Yangguan for settlement. At that time, it opened secretly and could only accept cash. The Mediterranean delivered hundreds of Once the rent of 10,000 yuan comes in, it will be directly intercepted by the bank, and it will be troublesome to keep the salary.
At this time, China Chengxin appeared. To be honest, CCX is here to take advantage.
CCX started investing in 2010. How much did the president invest? It was 290 million yuan in cash, of which 270 million was used to repay part of the debt and interest, and 20 million was used to renovate hotel infrastructure. But even so, Sunshine still has a debt of 400 million, and there is still an interest of 2 million to repay every year, but it is not bankrupt anyway.
So how many shares did China Chengxin exchange the money for? Holding, 35% of the shares, Sunshine's largest shareholder, Melco is now 28%, and Chen Dongsheng's personal shares are 8%. (Sunshine was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada in 2008 when Melco was here.)
So, CCX started to invest in shares in 2010. At that time, it thought it was getting a big deal, but it didn’t expect that it would be a big deal. Big hole.
Businessmen, if there were no benefits, China Chengxin would not have come. Therefore, what Mao said in the video was 100 million a year, investing in Yabuli for 22 years, and focusing on regional development. It was all nonsense.
Then let’s talk about Sunshine’s operations in Yabuli.
After several rounds of investment, how big a place does Sunshine have in Yabuli? Not to mention the entire snow mountain in Sanguokui, starting from the foot of the snow mountain and extending towards Yabuli Town, the area of ??about 3 or 4 kilometers is still Sunshine. It can be said that most of the most prime areas in Yabuli Resort are in the hands of Sunshine.
But as I said just now, Sunshine is poor. For more than ten years, the only land that has been invested in construction and development is the ski resort, leaving a large area of ??land unused, which cannot be afforded and unwilling to invest. Sell ??cheap.
So are the ski resorts well managed? To be honest, the management is quite bad. The Northeast is not only poor in the investment environment, but also in the humanistic environment.
Except for the main senior staff, most of whom are from local towns, the coaches are basically farmers from the surrounding villages. They come out to coach during the winter break. Taking advantage of the company, ticket scalping and patchwork are rampant in a place like this, which is an understatement. A large part of the company's due income goes into the pockets of employees.
As far as I know, Sunshine’s former ski school principal used system loopholes to dump out hundreds of snow cards every day, and the money was shared with his small team. He was fired as principal because of this. position, but he has not left and is still working as a supervisor in other departments of Sunshine.
His next principal embodies another shortcoming of the humanistic environment in the Northeast, which is to cultivate relationships and appoint people as relatives. Every time Beijing's top executives came to Sunshine, they would be entertained with wine and meat, and a group of female coaches would accompany them throughout the whole process.
The later principal was originally a coach, but he was very good at the wine table. He was young and beautiful, and had close personal relationships with several high-level officials. So he rose through the ranks in a short period of time, and now it seems that he has been promoted from The principal was promoted to another position.
These two managers of Sunshine employees are only a side reflection of Sunshine’s operating conditions, but they are enough to illustrate certain problems.
There is something wrong with Sunshine’s management from the very beginning. Instead of relying on strength to employ people, those who are in the top positions rely on connections to squeeze out those who are capable. Many of Sunshine’s good old employees have left one after another. This year, they are responsible for the main positions. The people there are all young and new faces.
How to describe them? They are highly motivated but unstable. They want to be promoted but have no experience. To put it bluntly, they are too utilitarian.
The best example is that this year the snow was built half a month later than in previous years on the Sunshine Snow Trail. The condition of the snow trails is very bad. In this way, the original benefits for ski enthusiasts have been cut and collected. The collection was slow, the crowds were unseemly, and I didn’t care at all about the feelings of these old customers who had been skiing in Sunshine all year round.
I used to swipe my card to get on the cable car, but this year I installed iris recognition. Every time I took off my snow goggles and glasses in the winter, I still couldn’t recognize the frost on my eyelashes. A group of people stood in the cold winter wind. Waiting for recognition is really a bit retarded.
Aren’t you afraid of stealing fingerprints on the cable car? Moreover, even this can't stop people who are not stuck on the cable car. To be honest, the workers watching the cable car are letting people in without permission. If the root cause is not cured, external containment is really useless.
In short, what Sunshine has done in recent years is very unwise and has broken the hearts of ski enthusiasts. Let’s talk about the place Yabuli. Can you imagine that there are 7 ski resorts in a small area?
The Sports Commission and Sunshine are the two alpine ski resorts, and the rest are junior ski resorts. The Yawangsi Hotel was also a company brought in to attract investment for the Great Winter Fair. It occupied the other half of the prime location in Yabuli. It also lost money. It occupied a large area of ??land but had no money to invest in development, and the land was still vacant.
These are all caused by the poor planning of the original government. In order to attract investment, large areas of land were ceded, with no regard for subsequent development. I have achieved political achievements, and the troubles of the next term have nothing to do with me.
This is only the number of ski resorts, and does not include the major and medium-sized hotels. After careful inspection, there is really not much space left to develop in this resort area. There was a time when we all thought that Yabuli would slowly turn yellow.
But Zhangjiakou’s bid for the Winter Olympics was successful. Suddenly, ski resorts became a hot project again. A lot of money poured into the ski resort, but did anyone come to Yabuli? No, there was silence.
Big companies such as Evergrande and Vanke have come to take a look, but there is no blank investment area in Yabuli. The existing acquisitions are all full of debt, not to mention the huge asking prices.
You want to acquire them all, you want to satisfy the greed of dozens of companies, large and small, you want to acquire one family, and you have to wait for the remaining families to run on you. Who would come to a place like this?
But the Heilongjiang government cannot wait for this place to become corrupt, otherwise they will not be able to explain to their superiors, so the Management Committee emerged.
Finally, we have opened the Management Committee. The management committee is currently under the direct leadership of the Heilongjiang Provincial Forest Industry Administration. Because Yabuli belongs to a forest area, it is convenient for them to manage development and construction.
The Management Committee was originally a government department and should have performed government functions, but later it took over its own business. Why, because as I just said, no big company is willing to invest in this place. The day lilies are already drying up waiting for the investment to be successful. Should I wait for more than ten years before getting promoted? I can't wait.
So the management committee gathered a group of local wealthy people, and everyone funded the construction.
In the few years since its establishment, what has been built? Road construction, night lighting, summer water park, mountain bike park, amusement park, panda pavilion, hotel, and hot springs. Building folk resorts and building three-mountain networked ski trails... completely embodies the essence of China's infrastructure madness.
In four years, I have personally experienced that the entire scenic spot has changed significantly, which is greater than the changes in the previous ten years combined.
The most amazing thing is that no big companies are willing to invest in this infrastructure money, and the government will not allocate it. But how did it come from?
The first thing is to borrow from the bank, with government projects as the endorsement, so I can’t go wrong with borrowing money; I can’t go wrong with borrowing from small landowners and small contractors who don’t have money. It’s okay. I am the government, so I can’t not pay back the money; looking for a place Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs invest, you see, our place is developing quickly. There are water parks and amusement parks. We used to operate in winter and now we operate in all seasons. We will definitely not go wrong in the future.
The "shareholders" behind a wooden plank road several kilometers long include several contractors. It can be said that after building so many things, there are really few things that require money first and then work on them. They all pay for the work first and then talk about it.
Then the construction cost is there, where does the land come from? The available blank space is used up, what to do with other places?
As mentioned earlier, the prime locations are all in the hands of others. If we don’t develop the prime locations, we will not develop them. Therefore, we don’t care who owns the land and start construction directly.
This leads to the argument that the management committee has occupied part of the land in Sunshine. In addition to massive infrastructure construction, we are also responsible for everything. The three mountains need to be networked, the ski resorts need to be alliances, the hotels need to be formed into associations, the market needs to be supervised, and we have the final say on pricing...
Here we need to intersperse a section on the three mountains network and alliances. What is business?
The mountain where Yabuli Ski Resort is located is made up of three conjoined peaks. The Sports Commission occupies the first two hills and Sunshine occupies the third hill. Each is neither small nor big and operates independently. Use the ski pass of whomever you want to ski.
The government wanted to build an overall brand for Yabuli, but felt that this was not possible. It was too small alone and we had to work together, so they built a connecting ski trail in the middle of the mountain, thus connecting the three. The mountains are operated together, and one card can ski three mountains. This convenience for tourists has also made Yabuli the largest ski resort in China.
So no matter what, we started construction first, but after everything was built, a bloody problem arose, and Sunshine disagreed. The Sports Commission is easy to talk to. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sports Bureau. We are all government departments. We can just discuss it and settle it.
If Sunshine doesn’t work, the ski resort I run so well is not at the same level as yours (to be honest, Sunshine has the richest ski trails and the best products). Sanshan Internet is OK, but what about the sharing? They couldn't negotiate, they asked for exorbitant prices, and they refused to cancel the cards they sold separately.
What was the final agreement? Sunshine sells its own cards and also sells Sanshan’s cards. The income from the cards it sells belongs to itself, and everyone from Sanshan’s sales will share it. Then the Sports Commission will not be involved. I also have to sell my own card.
What is the approximate price? The Sanshan Pass is about more than 4,000, and the Sunshine Card is less than 3,000. So many snow enthusiasts buy the Sunshine Snow Pass for a cheap price, but some Sanshan Roads are still slippery because of the snow now. The roads are all connected, and I just turned a corner and passed by. No one would know if I was stuck in Sanshan.
Then a particularly ridiculous thing happened. I originally sold a snow pass for the entire Yabuli, but now the three hills are run by the Sports Committee, Sunshine, and Management Committee. There are four or five combinations in the three hills. Card.
The original intention of the ski resort alliance is to form an alliance of ski resorts in the Yabuli area. Everyone will have unified pricing standards and raise prices to improve the quality of Yabuli and not to engage in low-price tours.
For more than ten years, Sunshine has been insisting on high-quality alpine products. It does not engage in low-price skiing and does not accept entry-level tour groups.
But other ski resorts in Yabuli are all beginner ski resorts, which are low-cost and do not require cable cars. They can do it with some slope construction equipment. They are all southern tour groups, and they can be used for a few dozen yuan. After skating for two hours, I patted my butt and left, just like skating.
I can’t make much money from skiing. I rely on other things, such as renting snow suits, hiring coaches, who require tips, and promoting other high-cost self-funded projects. My income basically depends on these. It can be said that they are a scam for southern tourists, but make money. Sunshine has insisted on quality for more than ten years and lost money year after year. Finally, it gave up in the first two years and started to build a junior ski resort.
What the government wants to do is to ban this kind of low-price tourism. Otherwise, Heilongjiang’s tourism reputation will be ruined in a few years (in fact, it’s not that good now), and Yabuli will be completely reduced to a low-end product.
So the management committee bluffed and kidnapped other ski resorts to join the alliance. Let's raise prices together to improve quality, and put an end to any behavior such as tipping. If you don't join the alliance, I will check you and won't let you. You opened the business, so all the ski resorts joined in.
But the sun still doesn’t get in. Then something particularly ridiculous happened again - last winter, the alliance's collective pricing increased to a base price of 70, and Sunshine charged 50. Naturally, travel agencies send people to the sunshine. Isn't it ridiculous? The management committee holds a large group of people hostage and lets Sunshine play around.
Of course, the management committee later forced Sunshine to increase the fee to 70, but in the accounts that cannot be seen in private, it seems that the fee is still 50. This year, the management committee attacked travel agencies before the start of winter, forcing them to join forces and sign contracts with them, so they tightened their grip on the source of customers. Sunshine finally formed an alliance this year. What is the collective price of the ski resort this year? 120.
It’s a good year again. In the past two years, we went to the southern provinces to promote and promote Japan and South Korea. It seems that there is something wrong with Jilin. Travel agencies are not going there, so tourists from Heilongjiang The number of tourists in Yabuli has increased sharply. The number of tourists in Yabuli has increased by 30% compared with last year. The income of the junior ski resort alliance has increased by more than 80%, because the price has doubled.
You said Sunshine has not taken advantage of it? It has; then why is it still like this? It has not taken enough advantage. It seems that there are still differences when discussing the proportion, and it does not meet Yang Guang's expectations.
I said it was the management committee, why do I seem to be praising them? No, I have to do it.
It seems that it is a good thing for the management committee to be the government. No matter what the reason is, whether it is for your own promotion or for regional development, the direction is right, but why did Sunshine play in the end? It's going round and round.
This is caused by the current situation of local government units in the Northeast. The average age of the employees on the management committee must be thirty-five, if not forty. Few of the leaders in major management positions have a bachelor's degree. Everyone is stubborn, political, and fights in private. The ideas that Northeastern people should have are also different. Few and deep-rooted.
The top leaders of the management committee implement iron-fist politics. Can you believe that in the modern Chinese society of the 21st century, with such a sound labor law, all employees of the management committee have no holidays? , there are no holidays 365 days a year, even if it is the Spring Festival. Does the original holiday job have three salaries? No, can I take consecutive holidays? No, what should I do if I ask for leave? My salary will be deducted.
It sounds like a fantasy, right? But it actually happened in this resort in Northeast China.
Are there any resistance among the employees? When the management committee was first established, everyone wrote a joint letter, but then it was somehow tamed. Now everyone still works 365 days a year, even going to work. There were no complaints to the Labor Bureau.
So sometimes when I think about it, human beings are really amazing things. Is the salary for such a demanding job high? The average monthly salary is 2000-3000. Don’t check for more than 0. That’s right. The management committee is extremely willing to spend money on construction, but it is extremely stingy on labor costs. It rains in the water park in summer. If you shut down your business, you have to deduct your salary, which is weird or not.
So do you think this kind of salary hires talented people? In a sense, it can be regarded as "talent".
The Yabuli Management Committee is like a small kingdom, and the big leader is the king. He does whatever he says, and no one dares to say no to him. Work here is not work, it is work. Just work. Don't tell me that you will leave if you don't work. Will there still be a shortage of people in government departments? In the Northeast, government departments, or those who deal with government departments, still have a good job.
The king seems to be a person who is not very good at using smartphones, but he works 365 days a day and only sleeps a few hours a day, so he requires everyone on the management committee to do the same.
If you have ideas, yes; if you have courage, yes; if you have skills, yes. However, he is seriously out of touch with society, stubbornly stubborn and still following the same tactics as the local boss. If I say the land is occupied, it will be occupied. If I say the alliance is formed, it will be joined. If I say we will do it, we will do it. Don’t worry about what I do.
So it is not that difficult to explain that what happened in the video happened. It seemed to be doomed from the beginning.
It is just such a group of people who are reluctantly running projects under the management committee with assets worth hundreds of millions. It is easy to imagine how well a group of people with an average monthly salary of several thousand yuan can manage. They work all day long. You can imagine what the state of the country is like. Sometimes I am very worried. What will you do if these infrastructures that have been built with many years of hard work are not managed well and eventually become obsolete? There is no way.
It’s still the same as my predecessor. The political achievements during my tenure are mine, and the mess after I leave is left to the next generation to solve.
How should I put it? There is a rotten smell that reveals stupidity. Occasionally, two good people are still struggling inside, and I don’t know what they are still struggling with.
Finally, let’s talk about the conflict between the Management Committee and Sunshine.
It is the things mentioned above that cause the two families to dislike each other. Yangguang thinks that the management committee is in charge of everything, and the management committee thinks that Yangguang refuses to listen even though he has nice things to say. One of them just wants to make money to satisfy his selfish desires. , I just want you to give in first to fulfill my political achievements, and many contradictions and conflicts occurred in the coming and going.
The reason why the conflict has developed to this extent is because Yangguang cannot handle the relationship with the local government well.
As mentioned before, most of the employees are local, relying on the support of the group, they do not take the management committee seriously, so the management committee mentioned above appeared and went around. When these older people came to their senses, they began to squeeze on Yang Guang, and the fight escalated.
What surprised me in the end was that the chairman of China Chengxin came forward to push the conflict to the highest point.
To be honest, Mao Zhenhua is the chairman of China Chengxin, not an executive manager of Yabuli Sunshine. The number of days Mao can spend in Yabuli in a year can be counted on his fingers. Most of the things that happen here He was not present, which meant that he basically listened to the reports from his subordinates, but he actually reported such a result.
Isn’t it ridiculous that Sunshine, who is rotten from the bottom up, is incapable of solving problems on his own and drags his boss into trouble? Finally, he arrogantly said those words in the video that were a bit slap in the face. Are CCX and Mao Zhenhua really only at this level?
Entrepreneurs are really funny. Therefore, people who are worried about Mao Zhenhua are actually worried in vain. He was deceived by his own family. It's true that the investment environment is poor, but the saddest thing is that assimilation happens so naturally and unknowingly, and you are also infected.
What happened in this small place in Yabuli is like a microcosm of the game between enterprises and governments in the entire Northeast. How real...