Chapter 339 Big Melon and Official Announcement

After the Lantern Festival, the news about Jiahe’s financing remained hot on the Internet.

Even the news that JD.com received more than 30 million US dollars in second-round financing could not divert too much attention.

At that time, JD.com was just a little-known Internet company, and its related business was only in big cities.

Therefore, the news of JD.com’s financing was originally spread only within the investment and Internet circles.

However, among JD.com's investors this time is Liu Zhou's Zhoushan Capital, which has caused some heated discussions about JD.com's second round of financing.

But at that time, JD.com was not well known to everyone, so after some discussion, everyone stopped paying attention to it.

Compared with JD.com, they are more interested in Jiahe’s financing, and it is also a better topic of conversation when they drink and chat.

However, compared with the outside world, the news of Liu Zhou's investment in JD.com caused greater waves in the investment circle and the Internet circle.

Although Liu Zhou hasn't invested for a long time, he is famous for his accurate vision.

This is not just true for investment, it also applies to Sina's operations.

Needless to say, the two core businesses of Sina Group, Sina Video and Sina Weibo, were developed under the leadership of Liu Zhou.

Therefore, both circles have a certain amount of admiration for Liu Zhou.

Now Liu Zhou actually invested in an e-commerce company that is not favored by everyone, which makes everyone quite curious.

Not only are some investment institutions curious, but even several well-known Internet companies in the industry are taking a close look at JD.com, a little-known e-commerce Internet company.

Especially Ali, at this time they have defeated eBay, Amazon has also officially announced its withdrawal from the Chinese market, and Taobao has completely become the overlord of the domestic e-commerce field, dominating the market.

However, after seeing the detailed information about JD.com sent by his subordinates, Jack Ma felt that Liu Zhou might have lost his mind.

Why are Internet companies still asset-heavy?

This is simply an amateurish approach.

So after seeing that JD.com spent huge amounts of money to build its own logistics model, I didn’t take it seriously.

In his mind, C2C is the correct way to open e-commerce.

Not only Jack Ma, but even Pony Ma suddenly became interested in JD.com.

After going public, Penguin Group has been attacking in all directions, getting involved in almost every industry.

The past two years were a time when the e-commerce war was in full swing, and Penguin Group certainly would not miss it and established its own e-commerce platform.

But just as Ali has no social communication gene, Penguin has no e-commerce gene, making the e-commerce platform half-dead. Even if Penguin brings huge traffic to it, it is useless.

The current Internet landscape has taken shape. Penguin, Ali and Baidu are the first echelon in the industry, and the three major portals have become the second echelon.

In the field of instant messaging, Penguin can be said to have achieved a monopoly, and its position cannot be shaken. Otherwise, it would not have been causing trouble in other Internet fields.

Searching requires too much technical content, not to mention that after Google withdrew from the mainland market, Baidu has already completed a preliminary monopoly.

Therefore, e-commerce seems to be the only area where he can get involved, and Pony Ma has never given up on e-commerce.

Since he couldn’t make it on his own, Pony Ma had no choice but to turn to other e-commerce companies.

However, after looking around, Pony Ma didn't find a suitable one. He had also paid attention to JD.com, but he also felt that JD.com's model of building its own logistics was unreliable, so he didn't take it seriously.

But now Liu Zhou is optimistic about this company, which immediately made Pony Ma interested in JD.com.

Xiao Ma Ge knows Liu Zhou quite well and admires his vision very much. Since he is optimistic about JD.com, there must be something unique about JD.com that he has not discovered.

But Pony Ma looked at it for a long time and couldn’t see what was special about JD.com, so he simply stopped looking at it and called Liu Zhou.

In any case, Liu Zhou’s investment has also attracted considerable attention from the industry and investment circles.

On the other hand, just when everyone was still chatting enthusiastically about Golden Harvest on the Internet, suddenly a big piece of news stole a lot of the attention.

The first door of Zhang Ziyi's triple door, the idiotic and paralyzed door, burst out.

I dare not write about the specific situation, as I have suffered losses twice. Now if you write about celebrity scandals and gossip, it will be blocked. Anyway, those who understand will understand, and those who don’t understand can search it themselves.

Although Zhang Ziyi is not very popular among the public in China, she is still one of the top celebrities in the country.

Now, such a scandal with rich elements and shocking scale has suddenly emerged, which immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Not to mention others, even some of her classmates such as Zeng Li and Yuan Quan couldn't help but watch the show online.

In fact, this matter is not out of line or a scandal. The parties involved are a serious engaged couple, so it doesn't matter if they are a little intimate.

It’s just that Zhang Ziyi is too famous and the domestic entertainment industry is relatively conservative, so at least no similar incidents have occurred, which caused a sensation.

And because Mr. Chen’s computer incident was even more explosive at the beginning of last year, no one criticized or scolded Zhang Ziyi for this melon.

Everyone just eats melons calmly and treats it as after-dinner gossip.

Overall, this scandal did not have any negative impact on Zhang Ziyi, except that it made her the most searched topic during this period. If nothing unexpected happens, once the heat of this incident dies down, it will not have any impact on Zhang Ziyi.

But if there is a continuous flow of negative news, it will have a great impact on Zhang Ziyi.

Liu Zhou even suspected that Zhang Ziyi was being targeted, as three doors came one after another.

The first two doors were not actually a big problem, but what pushed her to the forefront was the most serious "explosion of Juan" incident that was revealed at the end, which was a fatal blow.

This incident, together with the previous two events, suddenly brought Zhang Ziyi's image to the bottom.

In the end, it was Zhang Ziyi who was lucky enough to get the movie "The Grandmaster" which made her regain a lot of money. Otherwise, even if she was as popular as she was, she might have been out of fashion.

And if this incident happened in the future, Zhang Ziyi would never be able to make a comeback.

However, there is never a shortage of news in the entertainment industry. Zhang Ziyi’s hot search lasted only for two days before another incident set off the entire entertainment industry.

On February 20th, Golden Harvest, which was at the center of the storm, publicly announced that Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Liu Yifei and Zhou Gongzi had officially joined Golden Harvest and expressed their welcome to them.

In addition, Golden Harvest also announced that it has signed contract extensions with Qin Hao, Fan Xiaopang and Huang Xiaoming, and the contracts will expire in 2015.

Finally, it was stated that a grand signing ceremony would be held for the joining of Liu Ye and others, as well as the contract renewal of Qin Hao and three others.

As soon as Golden Harvest announced the news, it immediately caused a stir in the industry and heated discussions outside.

Jiahe’s financing in the past few days has been a hot topic in the industry. While everyone is shocked, they are also looking forward to what big moves Jiahe will make in the future.

But no one expected that Jiahe's action would come so quickly, and its first move would be so extraordinary.

In the past, artists in the circle always complained that Golden Harvest rarely signed people, but unexpectedly, this time Golden Harvest signed four people at once, and each of them is a popular star in the industry.

Not to mention Liu Ye, one of the four young actors in the circle. Although his popularity has been left behind by Qin Hao and Huang Xiaoming, he is still a top male actor in the industry.

Hu Jun became famous with the drama “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”, and combined with his accumulation in the past and recent years, he is also one of the most well-known male actors in the circle.

As for Miss Zhou, needless to say, she is currently the one with the best popularity among the four major actresses.

The most important thing is that Miss Zhou is an artist under Huayi. Now that she has joined Golden Harvest, it goes without saying that Golden Harvest has definitely taken advantage of the situation and dug up Huayi's talent.

Miss Zhou is no ordinary person. She should be considered the top artist under Huayi, the most popular one.

Now that she has been poached by Golden Harvest, everyone is watching how Huayi will react. Facing the giant Golden Harvest, will Huayi dare to react?

The last one is Liu Yifei. Although she is not one of the Four Dans or Two Bings, her popularity is no less than them. Even Li Bingbing plays a supporting role to her.

Liu Yifei can be said to be the strongest female artist of the new generation.

Moreover, she also had a big feud with Huayi and was directly banned by Huayi.

Now Jiahe has taken Liu Yifei in without any mercy, which can be said to be trampling on Huayi's face again.

If Huayi really doesn't dare to say a word, then he will lose face this time.

As for the contract renewal of Qin Hao and the other two, Golden Harvest was not reluctant to sign three new top stars, although they were already artists under Golden Harvest.

After signing these four new people, Golden Harvest now has three of the four top young actors: Qin Hao, Huang Xiaoming and Liu Ye.

In addition, there is Hu Jun, whose fame is no less than the four young actors, as well as Zhu Yawen, Zhang Yi and Huang Bo, who have already made their mark in the circle.

The male stars under Golden Harvest are truly dazzling.

Zhu Yawen made his debut in last year's "Crossing the Guandong", and this year he played the leading male role in CCTV-1's opening drama "Going West".

"Going West" was as popular as Liu Zhou expected, with the highest viewership rating reaching 12.47%, the average viewership rating for the whole series reaching 9.60%, and the average viewership share reaching 23.13%.

This result is even better than last year's "Crossing the Guandong", whose average viewership was only 7.78% and the highest viewership was 10.9%.

In 2009, when there are more and more entertainment options and a viewership rating of over is considered a hit, after the results of "Going West" came out, people outside predicted that this year's ratings champion had already been decided.

Zhu Yawen, the leading male actor, also became very famous because of this.

As for Zhang Yi, he became famous for his role as Meng Fan in the TV series "My Captain, My Regiment" which is currently being broadcast on the four major satellite TV stations.

"My Captain, My Regiment", a war-themed TV series created by the original team of "Soldier Assault", has been highly anticipated before it was broadcast.

After the show was aired, the ratings exploded, almost approaching that of "Going West".

Just when everyone thought that "My Captain, My Regiment" might break the ratings record of "Going West", its ratings began to decline because it was too heavy.

But despite this, as the second male lead in the TV series, Zhang Yi has also made his mark in the circle.

The last one, Huang Bo, is no less impressive. Although his image is not as good as Zhu Yawen and Zhang Yi, he is a movie star and the leading actor in a billion-dollar box office movie.

He may be less famous now, but his status is much higher than the other two.

(End of this chapter)