Chapter 404 Ringing the Bell
After taking a quick look around his huge mansion in Shanghai and settling his family down, Liu Zhou started to get busy again.

That evening, Golden Harvest will hold the last stop of its roadshow in Shanghai.

As Jiahe has become the focus of recent news, this roadshow was attended not only by investment institutions and investors from Shanghai, but also by many people from all over the country.

Therefore, this last stop of the roadshow also became the most lively one.

Although Liu Zhou is a ticket seller, he doesn't need to do anything to promote his products because potential buyers are always surrounding him.

Having said that, Liu Zhou is not arrogant or complacent. After all, Jiahe is a large company and it needs people like them to raise its stock price.

So Liu Zhou was also very patient and always greeted everyone with a smile.

The roadshow in Shanghai also ended successfully in a cheerful atmosphere.

When Liu Zhou returned to Yan's Garden, he saw his parents and Zeng Li and her son waiting in the living room for him to come back.

"Have you all had dinner?" Liu Zhou asked with a smile.

"I have eaten it. It's the first time for me to have a special chef cook for me at home." Liu Zhou's mother said with some emotion.

"Haha, you'll get used to it slowly."

Yan's Garden is so big that Liu Zhou specially hired a professional team of housekeepers to take care of the entire house inside and out, including three chefs.

The monthly salary that Liu Zhou needs to pay to this team of nearly ten housekeepers is as high as 200,000 yuan.

However, with them taking care of the house, Liu Zhou is less worried.

Liu Zhou doesn't come here to live very often, so they are also responsible for the daily maintenance of the house.

"I can't get used to it. I can't live in such a big house. After your company goes public, your father and I will go back."

Regarding the listing of Liu Zhou's company, Liu's father and mother were of course happy about their son's achievements, and they often showed off to relatives and friends in private.

Therefore, Liu Zhou invited them to come together to share the glory and joy of the company's listing, and they both readily agreed.

But before the company went public, she was extremely shocked when she saw the house her son bought in Shanghai.

To be honest, she had never seen such a big mansion, let alone in the Magic City where every inch of land is valuable.

This was also the first time that the couple had a direct sense of their son's wealth.

Not only was the house big and luxurious, but it also came with butler service, which was very difficult for them to get used to as they had come from difficult times.

"Why are you in such a hurry to go back? There's nothing going on at home anyway."

At this time, Liu Zhou's father said:
"We are very happy to witness your success with our own eyes. It's okay to stay for two days occasionally, but it's really hard to get used to it if you stay for a long time. Besides, we won't disturb your world of two."

After hearing what his parents said, Liu Zhou didn't say anything more.

The family came to the yard, drank some tea and chatted for a while, then went back to their room to rest.

In the following days, under the organization of CITIC Group, Liu Zhou attended several business receptions and three company briefings of Jiahe Group.

At the same time, Liu Zhou also participated in many meetings within the company to thoroughly complete the preparations before listing.

It was not until August 25th that Liu Zhou finally had some free time.

It was also on this day that Liu Zhou's Yan Family Garden welcomed its first guest, Han Shanping.

As a shareholder of Golden Harvest Group, Han Shanping of China Film Group will also attend Golden Harvest's listing ceremony. He also rushed to Shanghai the day before the listing.

Liu Zhou originally wanted to invite him to stay at Yan's Garden since there were plenty of rooms there, but he felt it was inconvenient and insisted on staying in a hotel.

However, even if you don't stay overnight in Yan's Garden, it is still possible to come and visit this famous mansion.

Liu Zhou took Han Shanping for a walk and then came to the south balcony to rest.

"This house is really nice and big. I'm sweating a little after walking around it."

"The area of ​​the entire house is only slightly smaller than a standard football field."

"You rich people know how to enjoy life. This isn't a villa, it's a manor."

"It's not like a manor. A real manor is at least two or three times the size of this one. Some large manors in the West are at least ten times the size of this one."

"Can the manors in the West compare to this place? This is the city, the Magic City, the economic center of China. Even in New York, there should be few houses this big in the city, right?"

"Almost. Haha."

There are also many luxury homes in New York, but there are indeed not many villas as big as Yan Family Garden. Even if there are, they are generally passed down from traditional wealthy families.

Han Shanping drank a sip of tea and then asked:

“Is everything ready for the launch?”

"Everything is ready, just waiting for tomorrow."

"In the blink of an eye, Golden Harvest is going public again. The scene when you first acquired Golden Harvest seems to be right in front of me."

"The mainland's film and television industry has been commercialized for so many years, and it's time for film and television companies to go public."

As the first listed film and television company in China, Golden Harvest represents the official rise of the domestic film industry.

Just like what Meng Xiaojun said in the movie "China Partners", when we stand at the New York Stock Exchange and swing the hammer, only then will investors on Wall Street see us, and people all over the world will see us.

From now on, we are no longer just teachers, but representatives of the world's largest education industry stocks.

The movie industry is so similar to the present, there is not even a single listed company in the industry.

Only by going public can more people see it. After all, not every company is Huawei.

Although the film and television industry seems to be very lively now, compared with other domestic industries, the current entertainment industry is not an important industry in terms of output value.

Even now, some people still hold on to the old-fashioned idea that actors are just actors.

Apart from Liu and Zhou, none of the wealthy people from the film and television industry can rank in the top 100 of the Forbes Rich List.

Therefore, only when companies in the film and television industry are listed can more people recognize the value of the film and television industry, and more funds will be invested in it to promote the development of the industry.

In the original time and space, Huayi played this role. The management was actually very optimistic about Huayi and provided Huayi with a lot of convenience in the first few years after its listing.

But later on, Huayi failed to live up to expectations and became obsessed with real estate, and tried to adapt it into film and television.

Moreover, the leaders probably did not expect that the film and television industry would develop so rapidly. In just a few years, it has grown from an industry with a value of tens of billions to a large industry with a value of hundreds of billions.

So Huayi, which was once so prosperous, should have been able to get the fattest piece of the cake, but unexpectedly it ended up being eliminated by the industry.

"You're right. The film and television industry should be known to more people, and it deserves to be known to more people. After this year's summer season, I am now very confident about the future. I roughly estimate that the total box office for the whole year should be able to exceed 7 billion. In a few years, it should not be a problem to exceed 10 billion or 20 billion."

"Boss Han, you are too conservative. I think it shouldn't be a problem for the annual box office to exceed 50 billion or even 100 billion in the future."

"One hundred billion? I dare not think about that. I hope that during my term, the annual total box office can exceed 20 billion. I will be satisfied and can retire with peace of mind."

"Don't worry, your wish will definitely come true. Believe it or not, in the past two years, there have been movies in the mainland that have box office revenues approaching 1 billion yuan, and it may even become the norm in the future.

So it is not a problem at all for the annual box office to exceed 20 billion, the mainland market is so big.”

"Haha, maybe you're the only one who's so optimistic about the future of the mainland film market. Right now, the highest-grossing movie in the country only has 700 million yuan.

You should also know that the higher the box office goes, the harder it is to increase it. I believe that a movie with a box office of over 1 billion will appear, but I think it will take at least three or four years.”

"Then we can wait and see." Liu Zhou replied with a smile.

To be honest, if Liu Zhou had not known what happened later, he would have done the same as Han Shanping and would never have thought that a billion-dollar movie would be released in 2010.

The situation in the original time and space was even worse. At that time, the highest-grossing domestic film was only over 400 million yuan, and that was "Founding of a Republic", which was booked out by many departments.

Even the popular "Transformers 2" only earned more than million yuan in the mainland.

Who could have thought that "Avatar" would raise the domestic box office record to 1.2 billion in one fell swoop?
This is even more shocking than the 3.6 ​​million box office of "Titanic".

"I hope it's true as you said. By the way, when does the listing ceremony start tomorrow?"

"There are 12 companies going public tomorrow. The ceremony will be a bit long. It will start at 7:40. We at Jiahe have a better schedule, so we will ring the bell at o'clock."

Jiahe is the company with the highest market value and the greatest popularity among the group of companies preparing to go public.

Although this is the first time that a film and television company has gone public, it is also highly valued by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which arranges for the bell to be rung at the best time.

“Okay, I hope that Golden Harvest can go public smoothly this time. Not only do the higher-ups have high hopes for Golden Harvest, but even its peers, such as Huayi, Bona, and Guangguang, have also been keeping an eye on Golden Harvest.

If the situation is very good after Golden Harvest goes public, they will definitely follow suit immediately, which is good for the entire industry."

"Then Mr. Han, you can get them ready for the listing."

Hearing Liu Zhou's confident words, Han Shanping said with a smile:

"You don't need me to call them. I think some of them should have already made preparations in secret. Once they see the success of Jiahe, I believe that within two years, these industry giants will definitely go public."

“That’s a good thing, too.”

After the original Time and Space Huayi went public, companies such as Berna and Guangxian also went public one after another.

However, the second listed film and television company was not one of these two, but Huace, which mainly produces TV dramas, but it also achieved huge success.

Moreover, Yu Dong, who was quite ambitious, actually took Berna to the United States for listing.

Although it caused quite a stir at the time, and even overshadowed Huayi for a time, Berna’s glory was only for a short period before its listing.

On the day Berna went public, its stock price fell below the issue price at the close of trading.

Moreover, after five years of listing in the United States, the company has raised a total of only more than 6.6 million US dollars, less than 8.8 million US dollars, and its market value has only increased from million US dollars to million US dollars.

What can you do with more than 9000 million dollars? Moreover, Bernard wants to build a cinema.

A company needs funds to develop. Huayi raised 12 billion yuan on the day of its listing. In five years, Huayi and Guangxian raised tens of billions of yuan.

In those years, Huayi and Guangxian left Bernard far behind.

However, Yu Dong is also a very courageous person. He raised funds to directly delist Berna from the US stock market and re-list it in the mainland.

Berna's development then returned to the fast lane.

Blockbuster movies such as "Mekong Heartbeat", "Operation Red Sea", "The Bravest" and "Changjin Lake" were all produced by Bernard.

The two chatted for a while, and then Han Shanping said goodbye and left.

The next day, August 26th, the sun was shining brightly in Shanghai, a change from the rainy weather of the past week or so. It seemed that God was very kind to us.

Liu Zhou woke up naturally at 6:30 in the morning, ate the breakfast carefully prepared by Zeng Li, and then put on the custom-made suit specially prepared for today with the help of Zeng Li, and his whole body was neatly arranged.

"Lizi, you really won't be there?"

"No, I'm waiting for your good news at home with my parents and Xiaobao."

Liu Zhou stepped forward and gently kissed Zeng Li on the forehead, then held her in his arms and said:
"Then wait until I come back."

After hugging for a while, Liu Zhou said hello to his parents in the living room and went out.

The driver had already prepared the car. When the Maybach carrying Liu Zhou drove out of the gate of Yan's Garden, the cars of Zhang Zhao, Zhong Lifang and other executives quickly followed.

A line of more than ten all-black Mercedes-Benz cars drove towards the Shanghai Stock Exchange in a mighty manner.

Such a cool convoy attracted everyone's attention along the way.

Liu Zhou, who was sitting in the car, felt a little excited at this time.

Although he also has listed companies like Sina under his umbrella, these were acquired and Liu Zhou had no sense of involvement in its listing process.

So strictly speaking, this is the first time that Liu Zhou has fully participated in the entire process of listing his company.

In the previous life, due to the rise of the Internet, in the first decade of the new century, many Internet companies went public in the United States.

Almost every company can cause a huge sensation when it goes public. This is not only a myth of wealth creation, but also the most glorious moment for the entrepreneur. It really makes one famous overnight.

Whenever Liu Zhou saw those big guys enjoying such great success, he would always fantasize about how great it would be if he were standing under the spotlight.

Now it can be said that he will get what he wanted, and Liu Zhou is even a little nervous at this time.

However, when Liu Zhou arrived at the gate of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, he calmed down as he watched the media reporters flocking towards him.

It was not the time for interviews yet, so Liu Zhou and his group entered smoothly with the help of bodyguards and security guards.

Although there are twelve companies listed today, there is no doubt that Liu Zhou is still the focus of the market.

As soon as he came in, not only did the CEOs of several other companies come to say hello, but the head of the Shanghai Stock Exchange also came over in person and chatted with Liu Zhou for several minutes.

As time passed slowly, it soon came to seven forty. After going through a series of listing procedures, the first company officially rang the bell to go public.

Looking at the people cheering on the stage, Liu Zhou could clearly hear that Zhang Zhao and others beside him were breathing faster.

(End of this chapter)