Chapter 1302: LD Series Fleet

On January 2, Gome’s subscription for new shares ended.

And that night, the first batch of planes purchased by Yuanfang Airlines landed at Xiangjiang International Airport for repairs.

It is unrealistic to disassemble and transport large cargo planes back to China. The cargo planes purchased from afar this time were delivered abroad and then flew to China.

Of course, flying directly to the country will not work either.

There are many procedures for buying an airplane. The approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China is only a process, and then customs declaration is required.

In addition, you have to apply for a route.

The purpose of repairing in Xiangjiang this time is to wait for the approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and to wait for the Jiangbei Minghu Customs to make preparations for acceptance.

Customs declaration is not just a simple sentence, nor is it just for others to see.

According to the relevant regulations of the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the State Administration of Taxation, if the aircraft is declared at customs, it is necessary to pay customs duties.

Yuanfang purchased a total of 20 767-300f and 5 757-200 aircraft this time, at a total cost of nearly 5 billion yuan.

In terms of taxes, it is also scary.

In 2009, the policy of replacing business tax with VAT has not yet been implemented, according to the document issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation in 2004.

The import tariff alone is as high as 5%, and the value-added tax is as high as 4%, which is still for large passenger and cargo aircraft over 25 tons.

For minicomputers, taxes are even higher.

But this is a tax on the bright side. There are tax rebates and relief policies for some companies in China, which can obviously be enjoyed in distant places.

But even so, the purchase price is as high as about 5 billion. Even after the tax reduction and rebate, Yuanfang will have to pay nearly 200 million in taxes for this purchase.

Sometimes money is really worthless.

If you buy something casually, you have to pay hundreds of millions in taxes, which is unbearable for most people.

Li Dong is actually an ordinary person.

So, in the temporary parking area of ​​Xiangjiang International Airport, when Li Dong heard that he still had to pay 200 million in customs duties and value-added tax, he couldn't help but ask, "Can you reduce it a little more?"

Lan Xingguo said helplessly: "4% tariff and value-added tax are already the lowest. As for the private jet you mentioned earlier, the tax is higher, but the order has not been placed yet, so there is no need to declare it at customs now.

For private jets, the tax is as high as more than 15%. Even if the tax is reduced or refunded, it will be at least about 10% in the end.

We can get this tax rate this time, and we have already received the same treatment as the domestic state-owned aviation group.

Just us, SF Express may be higher than us, Mr. Li, this is not the time to care about taxes. "

Li Dong rolled his eyes, to put it simply, the key is how much you overspend for me!

Yuanfang Airlines, which was originally planned to be 2 billion yuan, now has 5 billion yuan just for the purchase price plus taxes and pre-operations.

In the later stage, Yuanfang will have to invest a lot, and when it realizes profitability, it will have to run up at least 5 billion.

Instead of worrying about the tax issue, Li Dong looked at the 7 planes in front of him.

Although Yuanfang has ordered a total of 25 aircraft, the remaining ones still need to be maintained and surveyed. Currently, they are working overtime to complete the refurbishment of the 7 aircraft in front of them.

5 767-300f cargo planes, 2 757-200 passenger-to-cargo planes.

Not to mention the 757-200, the 767-300f freighter can be regarded as the Jumbo series.

The aircraft is 94 meters long, 8 meters high, with a wingspan of 57 meters and a width of more than 5 meters.

As soon as the five 767-300fs landed, it was a bit of a shock that you couldn't see the side at a glance.

Li Dong stopped worrying about tariffs, stared at the plane in front of him, grinned and said, "It feels pretty good. If 25 planes line up in a row, tsk tsk, it's really a bit bluffing."

After speaking, Li Dong said again: "Tomorrow's press conference will be held here!

Let the big guys follow and appreciate my fleet,

If you have money back, it will be even more shocking to get a few retired fighter jets. "

Lan Xingguo and the others were helpless. They held a press conference. In fact, everyone had no objection. Yuanfang Airlines was established and the plane was shipped back to China. It really needs to make a name for itself.

But the purpose of their boss, no matter how you look at it, does not seem to be for the airline to gain fame, but it is a bit like a child getting a new toy and showing off with his companions.

You can tell just by looking at the plane in front of you. Last time Li Dong said to spray his name on it, but he changed his mind later.

In addition to spraying people's names, it is not easy to declare at the Civil Aviation Administration.

In the end, Lan Xingguo simplified a bit, and each aircraft was numbered, from ld002 to ld008.

As for ld001, that is the serial number left for Li Dong's private jet.

The external explanation is that the leader series is the leader and leader of private cargo airlines.

But now, who doesn't know that Li Da's richest man is narcissistic?

Yuanfang's ranks are divided into two series, l and d. Oppo's first smartphone comes out, and it is also the l series.

Now Yuanfang Airlines is using the ld serial number again, and their brains will turn a little bit. Everyone knows that I am afraid it is not the so-called leader series, but the Li Dong series.

Lan Xingguo didn't have time to talk to him about this, and said again: "The press conference ends tomorrow, and I have to fly back to Jiangbei with the fleet, so I won't stay here for a long time.

The remaining 18 aircraft are still being refurbished abroad. I have to guard them and try to transport them all back to China before the Spring Festival. "

Li Dong nodded and said: "Then I will trouble you, brother, it can be shipped back to China before the Spring Festival, and next year, Huaxia will have our plane flying in the sky.

Retail, logistics, the Internet, including real estate companies, are now expanding and improving their own systems.

The establishment of Yuanfang Airlines means that our logistics industry chain is more complete and complete.

In the future, Yuanfang Logistics will go further.

The logistics industry is not just a supplementary part of the retail industry and the Internet industry, but a crucial node.

Today, our mall and retail group cannot achieve such great success without the logistics group.

Its importance is even more important than Dongyu Real Estate, and even Weibo is not as important as the logistics group.

Now inside Yuanfang, many people are saying that the logistics group has invested tens of billions in the past few years, but they can't see the benefits and it's not worth it.

These are mediocrity!

Without the development and growth of the logistics group, how could there be the current Yuanfang Retail and Yuanfang Technology, which has long been at a disadvantage in the competition with Ali.

Those who should understand will naturally understand, and those who don't understand don't need to understand.

All in all, the importance of logistics cannot be understood by others, but I deeply feel its necessity. Yuanfang's core competitiveness is closely related to the growth of logistics! "

As soon as Li Dong said this, Lan Xingguo immediately smiled and said, "It's good that you can understand, this time I'm seriously overspending, and I'm still a little nervous.

Now hearing what you said, I feel much more at ease. "

Li Dong laughed and said: "I just don't have money, if I had money, it would not be uncommon for me to spend tens of billions to enter Yuanfang Airlines.

With the advent of the mobile Internet era, in the future, online shopping will develop rapidly year by year.

Moreover, logistics is not only for shopping malls. In the future development trend, the importance of express logistics will gradually increase.

Speed ​​and efficiency will become the competitive lifeblood of logistics enterprises.

Others deliver in one week, we deliver in three days, others in three days, we in one day, others in one day, we are 1 hour faster than him!

Warehousing centers, sorting centers all over the country, express distribution points all over the country, as well as distant airports and distant cargo planes all over the country, this is our goal!

The United States has ups and fedex, Germany has dhl, island countries have nipponexpress...

In the future, our Huaxia will also have a distant place! "

Everyone just laughed at this, don't take it seriously.

The companies listed by Li Dong are all members of the top ten logistics groups in the world, and Huaxia Post has not entered.

Logistics and express delivery are not the same.

Even if Li Dong achieves Huaxia Express's all-inclusive package, it does not mean that he can achieve the level of other logistics groups.

At least, Yuanfang Logistics is still running in China, and there is not even a branch abroad.

In the eyes of everyone in Lan Xingguo, it is enough to be the number one in logistics for retail companies and the number one in retail for logistics companies.

The key to Yuanfang logistics lies in its own industrial supplement.

Li Dong usually likes to talk about big plans and big goals when he has nothing to do. Everyone is used to this, and it is worth being happy if he can do it. If he can’t, Li Dong will not be serious.

...

January 3rd.

Hong Kong stocks were closed.

On this day, Yuanfang held a press conference at Xiangjiang International Airport.

The theme of the press conference has nothing to do with Gome. Yuanfang mainly announced the establishment of Yuanfang Airlines, and the 25 cargo planes purchased by Yuanfang, which have arrived in China one after another.

The site of the press conference is not far from the 7 planes of Yuanfang Airlines.

It's not that Xiangjiang's reporters have never seen a plane, but this is the first time Xiangjiang knows that the richest man in the mainland, who was not well-known in Xiangjiang before, has actually established his own cargo airline.

And it is said that, according to rumors, the price of the plane purchased by Yuanfang itself this time is as high as 4 billion U.S. dollars, or more than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars!

Of course, everyone knows whether it is true or not.

The quotation of the new machine is 4 billion US dollars, which is indeed true, but the quotation is a quotation, and the transaction price of the new machine is not so high, and it is not difficult to get a 30% discount.

The aircraft purchased by Yuanfang this time are all second-hand mobile phones that have been in service for many years. According to the general algorithm in the industry, the value of the aircraft will automatically return to zero if it has been in service for more than 8 years.

Of course, this is just a value determination. In fact, even if it has been in service for more than 8 years, the value of a second-hand mobile phone can be sold for half of the new one.

Although it is impossible for Yuanfang to purchase 25 aircraft this time to reach HK$30 billion, it is probably close to HK$10 billion after calculation.

Rich and powerful, nothing more than that!

While vying for Gome, the mainland tycoon also spent huge sums of money to set up his own airline, and previous reports said that the other party is still fighting a global battle of self-media platforms.

And how confident and calm it is to promote Internet finance in mainland China.

It has to be said that even though everyone thinks that the young richest man is quite capable of bragging, but at this time, what he bragging is not disgusting, but instead feels that it is a kind of indescribable self-confidence.

But wait until Lan Xingguo announced that Yuanfang Aviation's fleet will be named the ld series.

Off the court, there was finally an unusual commotion.

On the Xiangjiang side, the acronym mode is generally not adopted. Xiangjiang people generally have their own English names and abbreviations, which are also English abbreviations.

But this does not mean that everyone knows nothing about Hanyu Pinyin.

In particular, the previous ol series mobile phones were ridiculed as jokes in the mainland.

In the past two days, Xiangjiang's media has also paid attention.

Now listening to the series name of the opponent's fleet, the ld series, everyone is a little dumbfounded.

Lan Xingguo saw the commotion in the audience, coughed lightly, and explained a little more: "Using the leader as the fleet number is also the future goal of our Yuanfang Airlines!

To be the leader in aviation and to be the leader in logistics.

Continuing to make Yuanfang Airlines bigger and stronger is the goal of our establishment of the airline..."

On the stage, Lan Xingguo was still explaining, but in the audience, a reporter couldn't help saying in a low voice: "If you want to be the number one, Mr. Li Dong really has the demeanor of a leader!"

Several reporters next to him rolled their eyes, and someone coughed lightly and said, "Tony, you probably haven't read the news from the mainland, have you?"

The reporter who spoke before was stunned for a moment, and said with a little embarrassment: "I was not in charge of Mr. Li Dong's business before..."

"No wonder, I just said how easy it is for you to believe the words of Mr. Lan on stage.

Do you know how to spell Li Dong's Chinese pinyin? "

Although many southerners can't tell the difference between l and n, but Li is a common surname, so of course such an oolong will not happen.

Li Dong's Chinese pinyin flashed in the minds of the previous reporter, and he opened his mouth wide after a while and said, "ld?"

"Do you understand now?"

The corner of Tony's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but look at the reserved Li Dong on the stage, and said dryly: "Understood, no wonder many people said before that Mr. Li Dong's greatest ability is not to make money, nor is it to lead the rise of the distant...

It's...a thick skinned..."

The next few words were said in a low voice. Even the reporters from Xiangjiang knew that a person like Li Dong would not be able to offend him.

This is already able to challenge the existence of Ban Changjiang, and the capitalist style in Xiangjiang is still very strong.

If you have money and capital, you can eat anywhere.

Everyone no longer entangled with these things. It was Li Dong's own right to name the plane. Although he seemed a little narcissistic, it was a personal style and had nothing to do with other things.

The reporters briefly said a few words about the airlines, but the airlines are currently only operating in the Mainland, and they have little to do with them, and everyone doesn't really care. What really cares is the upcoming battle between Gome and the United States.

After saying a few words, a reporter raised his hand and asked, "Mr. Li, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has announced the lottery numbers this morning. May I ask, how many lottery tickets are won here?"

Li Dong said with a smile: "600 million shares, I thought I could get more, but unfortunately everyone is too enthusiastic, which is beyond my expectation."

"In other words, together with the 1.3 billion shares allotted, Yuanfang has won a total of 600 million shares of Gome.

It is very close to the Huang family. Before the Huang family held 12 billion shares of Gome, and then allotted 1.5 billion shares. This time, because the other party lacked funds, not many lottery tickets were won.

The gap between the two parties has narrowed to about 1.5 billion shares. Is Mr. Li sure to surpass Huang's by more than 1.5 billion shares in the secondary market?

In addition, at present, you and Huang's total shareholding has reached 25.5 billion shares, plus JPMorgan Chase and allotment, holding 1.8 billion shares.

As well as Gome's other executives and minority shareholders' shareholding ratio, the total shareholding capital may be close to 29 billion shares.

According to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's regulations on Gome, once you shareholders hold more than 30 billion shares, you will face the risk of forced delisting.

However, Gome has just issued new shares. Once it is forced to delist, it may trigger a risk crisis. Do you have a risk plan for this? "

Li Dong said with a smile: "It's not easy to say, it depends on the reaction of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Delisting is something we don't want to see.

It is not easy for Guomei to fight for the resumption of trading, and the market is rising. Of course, we hope to continue to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and strive to bring greater benefits to shareholders.

But if the delisting mechanism is really triggered, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will force the delisting to choose.

Of course, it is not ruled out that all parties will reduce some of their shares and continue to maintain their listing status. "

"Reduction?"

Someone said loudly: "Mr. Li, are you talking about the reduction of holdings, is it the distant side or the Huang's side?

Or JPMorgan Chase and other shareholders? "

Li Dong shook his head with a smile and said: "I can't say this right now, I can only say that it is possible.

Except for the allotment part and the previous non-public private placement of part of the share capital, there is currently a sale restriction period, and there is no sale restriction period for other share capital.

In the end, which one chooses to reduce its holdings depends on the specific situation.

Of course, you don't have to worry about this.

Even if Gome is really facing forced delisting, we will strive to resume trading as soon as possible. Anyway, this is not the first time, and we are very familiar with the process. "

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, why did this guy feel more and more unreliable.

Once faced with forced delisting and cannot resume trading in a short period of time, wouldn't it be the same as before, and everyone bought the stocks again?

Shareholders of Xiangjiang are still waiting for Gome to resume trading on the 5th and do a big job.

Now that Li Dongyi said it, everyone felt a little trembling. Once the delisting mechanism is really triggered, will Gome still strive for a short-term resumption of trading?

Also, the second suspension is still the kind of forced suspension and delisting. Will the Hong Kong Stock Exchange really agree to the other party's second application for resumption of trading?

Li Dong, the second largest shareholder of Gome, is not too responsible for saying this.

Based on today's few words, Gome's growth rate may drop a little in the next resumption of listing.

In fact, some people can understand Li Dong. He is now striving for the position of the first shareholder. If he fails, it has nothing to do with him whether Gome delists or not.

And once he succeeded, he kicked out the Huang family, and then continued to reorganize and go public. At that time, the distant family would exist, and it would not be a big problem to continue to go public.

Seeing that everyone was stupefied, Li Dong continued to laugh and said, "Today we are talking about Yuanfang Airlines, so I won't talk about Gome, since it's only a few days anyway.

Moreover, holding a press conference in Xiangjiang today is not aimless.

Yuanfang Group will officially enter the Xiangjiang market in the next one to two years. Xiangjiang, as the financial center of Asia, is also the market we have always hoped to enter, thus opening up the international expansion channel of Yuanfang..."

Li Dongyang talked a lot, but as for Gome's previous response, it seemed that it didn't come from him at all.

The reporters also can't care about Gome's affairs, and they are going to enter Xiangjiang from afar!

Retail or logistics?

Or real estate? )!!