Chapter 1478: Can't Help

Simon leaned on the sofa and flipped through the script in his hand. Hearing Lin Suyi's pointed words, he said, "You can do what you want, but don't expect too much. The Chinese film and television industry has too many restrictions on light and shade. It’s impossible to make it bigger.”

Before Lin Su could speak, Lin Lan had already walked over, handed a cup of tea to Simon, sat down beside him, and said in disapproval, "Didn't Jin Shu do a good job?"

Simon shook his head: "I just made a random layout here, and it's only been like this for a few years. What does it mean?"

"It means that brother-in-law is very powerful."

"That's right," Simon smiled, and continued in Lin Subai's eyes: "But to explain a little more, the Chinese market is already here. After I dug a little, it's just such a big gold mine. Then why didn't anyone do it before?" ?”

Lin Lan came to her senses and repeated what Simon said just now: "There are too many restrictions."

Simon raised a finger and 'ding' on the teacup he was holding: "bingo!"

Lin Su interjected: "Since you can do it, it means that the restrictions have been gradually loosened. A lot of reforms have indeed been made in the past few years, and there will definitely be more adjustments in the future."

"This is the threshold on the bright side," Simon said: "I just said that there are hidden rules under the water. In short, don't expect too much. It will take at least ten years for China's film and television industry to scale up. Moreover, even after ten years, it will only be on a scale, but it will still be very chaotic inside."

The Lin sisters were a little puzzled for a while.

Simon didn't elaborate either.

Hard to say.

For example, movies, do movies make money? Maybe ten or twenty years later, the public will be able to see films that continue to break through new box office records every year, one billion, two billion, five billion... But, compared to China's annual production of thousands of films in more than ten years However, the entire industry as a whole is losing money.

Why do you still do it when you lose money?

This is another very interesting topic, with different reasons at different stages.

Let's talk TV.

The best era of the Chinese TV drama industry was actually the decade around the millennium.

I didn't say it before, but later, Simon felt that there was a small node in it.

An old drama player who created classic series such as "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" and "Miracle Doctor Xilaile" participated in a certain project because the producer wanted to extend the series from 30 episodes to 33 episodes. Bone objected, saying that you can't do this, which is irresponsible to the series and the audience, and finally couldn't stand it and took the producer to court.

Then it was blocked.

Then the public opinion overwhelmingly attacked the old drama players as opera bullies, blah blah blah.

Then, it’s nothing if the 30 episodes are extended to 33 episodes, it’s nothing. In the following years, 40 episodes, 50 episodes, 80 episodes, and 120 episodes of “big dramas” came one after another. If you make one, there will only be 20 or 30 episodes. TV series, I am embarrassed to say hello to people when I go out.

Therefore, the TV series can not be watched.

Are the audience stupid?

not stupid.

No response, just because everyone doesn't care.

Moreover, the key question is, who the hell has time to watch a TV series that can be finished in 20 episodes but stretched to 80 episodes?

Then again, the TV drama industry began to involve.

The form of introversion is that fewer and fewer people watch the drama, what should I do? The answer is to catch the few remaining people and squeeze them hard until they die.

Here comes the problem.

If you talk about money, such a hurtful thing, everyone will care about it.

The result is a vicious cycle.

Some people may think, that’s not true. Twenty years later, China’s TV drama industry is also very prosperous. There are still so many dramas every year, and it’s a giant production of one billion or eight billion. It's often terribly rotten, but in short, it's still very prosperous, so what's going on?

The truth is, because the whole thing has nothing to do with the show itself.

It has nothing to do with the TV series itself. Of course, the quality of the series doesn't matter. If you can make do with it, you can make do with it. If you can't make do with it, you have to make do with it. After all, no one cares.

Here comes the problem again.

What does that have to do with it?

Um……

This is another big big problem.

So, is there no future for China's film and television industry?

have.

Just like a movie, after a period of chaos and impetuosity, it gradually returned to the right track.

The constantly breaking box office records let the circle understand that you can only get high box office if you make movies that the audience likes. You can’t make do with it like a TV series.

It should be noted here that it is a movie that the audience likes, not a "good movie" praised by professional media or film critics in the traditional sense.

A good movie may not get a high box office, because the audience may not like it.

What kind of movies does the audience like?

no one knows.

Hollywood has struggled for a hundred years without fully understanding this kind of problem. How long has it been since the commercialization of Chinese films? But no matter what, if you don't do it carefully and make do with it, it will definitely not work.

So there is still a long way to go.

As for the recovery and return of the TV drama industry, it's a long way to go, who knows.

All in all, it is unlikely that China's film and television industry will become bigger and stronger just by betting on the content of the film and television itself.

If it is just to make money, then, at each stage,

To adapt to the gameplay at each stage, instead of naively thinking that as long as I do a good job in movies and TV, I can become a giant all the way to the top.

Let's talk about the current Jinshu Department, why it can reach its glorious state in just a few years is precisely because Simon has adapted to the current Chinese film and television industry's gameplay.

Moreover, fortunately, the current gameplay of China's film and television industry is still normal and mainstream, and the core happens to be content, whether it is TV or movies.

Of course, it's not just the content, you also need resources, connections and channels, and there is no shortage of these brocade books, so it's booming.

Even hot to a little too much.

Although Simon didn't elaborate, but with the intelligence of the Lin family sisters and the environment they were in, they quickly grasped the main point.

In fact, there is only one, if you only look at the film and television itself, there is no future.

Because of this, Lin Su quickly dismissed some thoughts.

If this matter only needs to concentrate on film and television content, she doesn't mind getting involved, but if there are too many things involved, she is a little unhappy.

It's not that Lin Su is not as good-looking as Chen Qing, but because she doesn't want to be so good-looking. The second child will be born soon, and she still needs to focus more on her two little babies.

Chatting like this, the time soon came to night.

Simon will leave tomorrow, and tonight is very lively. Lin Su's grandparents, Lin's father and Lin's mother, Lin Dong, Lin Xing, who returned from the United States during the New Year, and Lin Lan and his wife had dinner together.

The meal lasted until more than eight o'clock, and they chatted about trivial matters together. After nine o'clock, Simon and Lin Su returned to their rooms.

Coaxed a certain little guy to sleep, took a bath, and the two of them went to bed together, and they didn't feel sleepy. Turning on the TV and watching, Lin Su mentioned another thing: "A few days ago, the Economic and Trade Commission issued a "First List of Criticized and Eliminated Backward Industries, Simon, do you know?"

Simon was looking through some policy documents sent by Chen Qing, and he was very interested in one of the "Measures for Punishment of Financial Illegal Behaviors" which will be released at the end of the month.

One of the clauses can be described as famous, that is, the maximum fine of 300,000.

The most well-known case is the case where a certain big-eyed person got "Buffett Zhao". The couple manipulated the stock price to make several billions.

When Simon heard about this incident, his first impression was that it was absurd, and the whole incident seemed to be a joke.

Yet this is the truth.

However, standing in Simon's current position, he still approves of this set of bills.

After all, Simon is also a big player now, so of course he should support it with both hands and feet.

In fact, who doesn’t know that a fine of 300,000 yuan is too inappropriate. The problem is, of course everyone has to pretend to be confused, after all, too many people want to fish in troubled waters.

Hearing that Lin Su mentioned a regulation that was also issued recently, Simon nodded.

After the change of office last year, coupled with the severe economic situation, the pace of reform in China this year is very large, and various bills and regulations have been adjusted one after another.

As for the "First Batch of Outdated Industries for Elimination", to put it bluntly, it is to cut down a large number of loss-making state-owned enterprises that are increasingly unaffordable in China, relax private capital access, and further carry out market-oriented reforms. And the most direct consequence of this incident is mass layoffs.

This is a super-large-scale layoff wave that is much larger than the cumulative number of laid-off workers from the 1980s until 1999.

People who don't have a deep understanding of China's economy often think that China's economy has been on the rise since the reform and opening up in 1978, and it does not experience a business cycle every ten years like the West.

Actually not.

China has also been going through economic cycles.

Counting from 1978 to 1988, it was also ten years, when the policy of “breaking through price barriers” was launched, with the fundamental goal of promoting the transition from a planned economy to a market economy.

The result fails.

Many people know the result of failure.

Not even close.

Then there is the present 1999, almost another decade. The financial turmoil in Southeast Asia that broke out in 1997 did not seem to affect the mainland, but it was not.

How could such a strong gust of wind fail to blow such a big man in mainland China?

Due to the impact of the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, other Asian countries have tightened their finances one after another, and Western countries have also become cautious when investing in Asia. As a result, capital inflows into China have decreased significantly. In addition, China's exports to other parts of Asia have also been severely affected by the sluggish demand, which eventually led to severe deflation in China since the second half of last year, and, at a deeper level, overproduction.

Lack of money, can only tighten the belt.

Overproduction, that is now, to eliminate backward industries.

In fact, it's just nice to say.

Most of the so-called backward industries are not backward at all. The only problem is that these industries, to be more precise, are a large number of state-owned enterprises. Not only do they not make money, but they are constantly losing money, requiring continuous subsidies from the state finance.

Going on like this is not an option.

What's more, there is really not that much money to subsidize.

So what to do?

Can only be eliminated.

Except for the core industries that are not suitable for opening up, others should be restructured and closed.

The result is massive layoffs.

Compared with the large-scale investment in 1999, China's education and training industry has been under the knife many years later.

, that's a really small move.

Then, in 2008, needless to say.

And then, in 2015, the impact was no less than that of 2008, and it was a long-term pain, a precipice and a precipice.

In any case, compared with the West, which even relies on launching wars to divert conflicts to overcome the economic crisis, China is much more capable of adapting to the economic cycle. Even the several economic cycles after the reform and opening up were basically affected by the global economic environment.

For example, in the typical year of 2008, it was completely passive to undertake huge inflation losses for the United States.

In the bedroom.

Simon nodded when he heard Lin Su mention the "Catalog of the First Batch of Eliminating Backward Industries", "I know, what's wrong?"

Lin Su walked over, and accompanied the man to read the draft of the "Measures for Handling Financial Illegal Behaviors", and said: "The province recently gave me some company information, you know, it's all that kind, I hope I can help. There are more than 30 enterprises, involving more than 80,000 workers, if they cannot maintain, they will all be laid off."

Feeling the sympathy in Lin Su's words, Simon stretched his arms around her waist, stroked the woman's bulging belly, and said, "If it's only 80,000 people, we can afford it for nothing, but you have to understand, China's reforms this time are aimed at cutting off dependence and weaning many people from many industries."

Lin Su leaned on Simon's shoulder and said, "But, if they lose their jobs, what do they live on?"

Simon reached out and rummaged through the stack of folders on the bedside table next to him for a while, found a copy and showed it to Lin Su: "The "Regulations on Minimum Living Security for Urban Residents", this is also a draft, and it will be released in the second half of the year."

"I know, but..." Lin Su took it, turned it over twice, and put it back on the man's lap. He raised his eyes and glanced over, with a little emotion: "You, you just don't want to care about it?"

Simon tilted his head and kissed the woman's forehead, and said with a smile: "There are more than 30 companies with 80,000 people, and the average size of each company is 2,000 to 3,000 people. They are obviously big companies. You have to know, in my opinion In Li, the key to managing a company is actually managing people. If I really take over, the 80,000 people will all be state-owned enterprises in China, involving various types of establishments and intricate chains of personnel, relationships, and interests. How is it possible? Can I manage it? And if I don’t fight for control and just invest money, then the result is even more conceivable, I can go in with a custom-made suit, gold watch and famous shoes, and leave a pair of underwear to come out, that’s my skill.”

Lin Su couldn't help laughing at the end of Simon's words. After thinking about it, she felt that this was the truth, so she could only sigh and said, "Then, I'll choose two or three companies. I can't refuse them all. If I can't do it well, Surely you don't mind, do you?"

Simon nodded: "Yes."

In fact, in recent years, the Westeros system has been acquiring companies in mainland China through mergers or shareholdings, but most of them, to put it bluntly, are companies with a very good foundation. Very good management team.

At this stage, China's various accommodations for foreign capital also allow overseas capital such as the Westeros system to easily achieve their goals.

Since I can eat the most delicious fat meat, of course I won't go for the leftovers.

Even if vulture investment often means more lucrative profits, the problem is that this is not the United States, nor some other western countries where Simon can influence the control rules. You want to come running and be a vulture, but before you even get your mouth shut, you're preying on the native hyenas.

Anyway, things are different this time.

Simon will definitely not give up the idea of ​​hunting in this wave of turmoil, but he must wait for the opportunity. As for others who take the initiative to deliver to the door, it is better not to have any expectations.