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Even though the battle on Wall Street was imminent, Chen Yuanming stayed in the country for a few more days to arrange some trivial matters at hand.

The first thing to determine is the matter of Blizzard's travel to China.After making the promise to Allen and others, Chen Yuanming immediately arranged for someone to go to Sichuan to implement it, but the answer he received was somewhat unsatisfactory.At that time, although the Giant Panda Conservation Center was established in Sichuan Province, due to the short period of construction, funds and personnel were relatively scarce, and there was no systematic procedure for receiving tourists, so they were extremely hesitant about this visit request.

For this situation, Chen Yuanming had no good solution. With a swipe of a pen, he donated 50 US dollars to the Wolong Nature Reserve free of charge. Blizzard and his party changed from tourists to donors, and the green light was turned on along the way.Wolong even wanted to arrange some special reception activities to welcome the arrival of these rich Americans, but Chen Yuanming vetoed all those ironic proposals one by one, and finally decided not to publish in the media newspapers, not to hold special receptions, and to bring their own tour guides The purpose of the itinerary is to restore this tour to its essence: to promote Chinese culture.

Although the current Blizzard is just a little-known new company, in the next 20 years, with the popularization of the computer industry, he and a group of other American game industries will become the main force of a new round of cultural offensive, just like The expansion of the animation and comics industries in Japan after World War II, or the promotion and popularization of film and television and music in South Korea after its economic take-off.In today's global village, the impact of a cultural offensive on ordinary people far outweighs the economic benefits brought by dozens of factories.If it is possible to carry out cultural baptism for some companies within the radiation range, Chen Yuanming does not mind starting now.At the same time, he also arranged for two DVD agency companies under Feiyan to carry out the English translation of some classic martial arts and kung fu movies.

Today, the Changchun Film Studio and the Shanghai Film Translation Factory have not yet completely declined. Although ten years of turmoil and a long blockade have exhausted the artistic careers of a group of excellent dubbed film directors and dubbing actors, the salaries of the two factories The transmission of fire has caused a serious generation gap, but the introduction of the blockbuster film system that was reopened in 1994, and the efforts made by Feiyan in the introduction of DVDs in the past two years, undoubtedly opened up a new way of making money for them, instead of relying on Making a living writing "internal reference films" for leading officials.

Therefore, Changchun Factory and Shanghai Translation responded to Feiyan’s request at a high level. All the people who participated in the dubbing were top talents in the factory, and they also strived for perfection in the setting of subtitles.These films will enter the American market through Eagle's Nest Entertainment's distribution channel when the DVD player is officially on sale. Leaving aside the income, this kind of promotion will undoubtedly give the domestic film industry a shot in the arm.

Although it is impossible to talk about the soft power of culture without the hard power of the economy, it is still helpful to enter the field of vision of the American people one step ahead of time and occupy a corner in the cultural or entertainment circle.It's just that there is no support from the government. This kind of behavior can only be regarded as burning money. It is estimated that except for a real rich man like Chen Yuanming, few people can maintain it.

While arranging these, the expansion of software companies, especially game companies that are subsidiary industries, has also become the short-term goal of Touchstone.In the real electronics industry chain, there is such a nearly perfect rule: the user's demand for operation drives the upgrade of the hardware, and the software will evolve after the hardware upgrade. The terminal industry will then produce higher-level products, and users will further upgrade the hardware for entertainment needs...

Just like a real food chain, what promotes the development of software and hardware is not just the interaction between the two, but also comes from those playback terminals, those irresistible visual effects and operating experience.Therefore, if he wants to build a perfect electronics industry chain, he can't just focus on hardware or software. The film, animation, and game industries are also the top priority.

I remember that in his previous life, he had watched the Hollywood blockbuster "Transformers" in a movie theater. The simple and rough animation characters in his childhood memories became real beings who could act on the same stage as real people. When Brother Optimus Prime appeared on the screen At that moment, there was prolonged applause in the cinema.This strong sense of cultural identity is not only a victory for Hasbro's business practices, but also a great victory for Hollywood's visual effects and the entire Silicon Valley electronics industry.

If possible, he sincerely hopes that those young people who go to Zhongguancun to buy memory, buy motherboards, and choose graphics cards are not just to play American games or watch Hollywood blockbusters.

It's just that in this era, the cost of establishing an animation or game industry is not low at all.In China, there is not even a dedicated college to guide and cultivate those future Blizzard or Industrial Light and Magic talents, so what Chen Yuanming needs now is to ignite those sparks, take a route similar to Interplay, start with a software company, and build games Studios, set up training courses or directly bring talents to the United States for internships, and even develop the foundry industry, so that this emerging thing can germinate and take root on the land of China.

And what he is most optimistic about at present is Jinshan Software Company, and Taiwan Daewoo Consulting.Needless to say, the former’s achievements in office software WPS and anti-virus software, while the latter’s Legend of Sword and Fairy and Monopoly series have also greatly influenced a generation. As pioneers and prairie sparks, these two companies were able to The role played is enough.As for other younger seeds, perhaps American-style angel investment is not suitable for their development, and how to solve the "difficulties in starting a business" with Chinese characteristics is the key.

Compared with the difficulty of raising venture capital, the threshold of business management and administrative approval may be the root cause that really deters academics.In China, building a technology company may be more difficult than maintaining it.In just a few months since the establishment of the Golden Stone, they have heard countless requests in this regard, how to transform the scientific research capabilities of major colleges and departments into actual productivity, how to free those researchers from administrative and marketing responsibilities Perplexity, perhaps, is the most intuitive problem facing Golden Stone, and if this problem is solved, perhaps China's venture capital industry will embark on a completely different path.

At this time, there were still 4 years before the opening of the Shenzhen Growth Enterprise Market. Before the introduction of the real official venture capital system, perhaps Golden Stone was the only venture capital company with Chinese origin.Chen Yuanming is not afraid of spending money, or even wasting money, but fighting against time and rules requires more than mere money.

After roughly planning the bits and pieces at hand, Chen Yuanming boarded the flight to the United States again without saying hello to others.

Sun Guoqiang arrived at Yuanyang headquarters in Manhattan earlier than Chen Yuanming, where the operation of copper futures has already begun.Following Tiger Fund and Quantum Fund, Yuanyang Fund became the first batch of pioneers to cut into the London Metal Exchange. As tens of billions of dollars poured into the copper futures market, the copper price that had been rising was hit head-on and fell severely. the descending channel.Futures are not like stocks, almost every day, every hour, the price is changing and dancing, any negligence may bring unpredictable and disastrous consequences, and the price in London drives the price changes in other futures markets, New York Mercantile Exchange Therefore, the price curves of the Tokyo Industrial Products Exchange and even the Shanghai Futures Exchange began to fluctuate.

Now Sun Guoqiang can be regarded as someone who has seen the market. He has also seen the shocking scene of aluminum futures plummeting by more than 300 US dollars in just two months, and he even captured a profit of up to 200% from it.But a large-scale operation like copper futures is very rare even in the international market, let alone domestic.The connection between Guoxing and Yuanyang has reached an unprecedented closeness, even he himself couldn't help but come to Yuanyang to sit on the spot.

But unlike Sun Guoqiang's tense attitude, Chen Yuanming has completely entered the Wall Street social circle during the time he returned to the United States.The communication with Mr. Robertson has become increasingly close. He participated in receptions and golf friendly matches organized by the upper management of Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, and the partners of Sequoia Capital and KPCB became his guests.After getting rid of the initial predicament, Yuanyang Fund finally entered a period of capital expansion. Participating in copper futures trading was the beginning of his real entry into this vanity fair.

In the venture capital and banking circles in the United States, what everyone looks at is not how huge assets you have, but how to use these assets to achieve an annual rate of return of more than 50%.The recent outstanding performance of Yuanyang Fund has helped Chen Yuanming pass the initial hurdle.At the same time, the unspoken rules in the venture capital circle also mean that he must do his best to integrate into the core of Wall Street. It is not the Silicon Valley giants who really control the golden west coast, but Manhattan on the east coast.What made Nasdaq's stock price really take off is also the result of the combined effect of several major venture capital firms and investment banks.

Now Golden Stone has begun to step beyond angel investment and enter the field of VC, and the future Yuanyang Fund will also become the focus of the field of VC and PE.Therefore, it has become a top priority to establish a good relationship with these Wall Street giants in advance and recommend excellent seed companies to them.Sequoia Capital and kpcb have also shown full sincerity for Golden Stone, an emerging small company. In the past year, they found many companies worthy of attention, and Golden Stone participated more or less in the seed incubation period. .Unlike those on the outside of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, they know how much potential these seed companies will have.

And the most wonderful thing is that in the current scope, Golden Stone does not have much conflict with these venture capital companies in the later stage of their ventures, so mutual support and referrals are logical.In the unspoken understanding of the venture capital circle, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other investment banks responsible for the listing of Nasdaq stocks also began to establish a preliminary friendship with Chen Yuanming.

And as Chen Yuanming walked into the center of Wall Street step by step, the wealthy Chinese of the second and third generations of immigrants also began to show up.Through the introduction of the branch of the Liu family in the United States, Yuanyang Fund began to contact these upper-class Chinese, absorbed the funds in their hands, and became a new fund agent.While gaining benefits, Chen Yuanming also gained incalculable political capital. It must be known that these ethnic Chinese still retain some domestic blood, and more complicated interests are derived from the interaction of money and power. network.

On the copper futures market involving hundreds of millions of funds, Chen Yuanming may not operate many by himself, but he has exhausted his energy in the development of Yuanyang as a whole.Time passed like running water, and March will be over in a blink of an eye. In the last few days of the end of the month, a mail from China was placed on the desk.

The letter was very simple. It was a greeting card with a unique style. Half of it was dotted with delicate and beautiful winter jasmine and primroses, and the other half was written with a line of pen.

The spring arrives in Xishan, and I will give you the lingering fragrance.Happy birthday.

Xiao Junyi

Red, yellow, and purple, the flowers and branches are stretched, with a lingering fragrance, as if just taken from the branches.The snow-white piece of paper and the blue ink characters, just one line, brought the spring of that mountain range and the blessings half a world away.

Someone once celebrated his birthday, blessings over the phone, intimacy face to face, and expensive gifts with special colors.But no one had ever given him anything like this, a gift so small that it was hardly worth mentioning...

Chen Yuanming took this card, turned it over and over for a long time, and finally put it in the black leather notebook, and locked it firmly at the bottom of the cabinet.