Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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In 1983, China submitted an application to the Olympic Council of Asia to host the 1990 Asian Games.

The Olympic Council of Asia Congress in Seoul the following year competed with Hiroshima, Japan, and Beijing, China won the right to host with 43 to 22 votes.

In recent years, most of the mainstream European and American media reports on China have been negative. China needs to give full play to the role of sports as the main platform for people-to-people diplomacy, and take the opportunity of hosting the Asian Games to open up the situation and improve the surrounding environment.

Therefore, the Asian Games held in Beijing, China in 1990 was very important.

In April 1985, the Beijing Asian Organizing Committee was established.

In the following year, the Asian Games project, including the National Olympic Sports Center and the Athletes Village, broke ground on hundreds of hectares of crop land at the northern end of Beijing's central axis.

At the same time, a number of supporting projects have also started.

Although it is already the tenth year of reform and opening up, China’s economic foundation is still very weak for hosting the Asian Games. At this stage, the central government allocates more than 200 million yuan for sports every year. According to the current The price level is equivalent to buying a popsicle for every person in the country.

In order to host the Asian Games, the central government appropriation plus the local government self-raised nearly 2.9 billion yuan, and there is still a shortfall of more than 2 billion yuan.

Speaking of which, Xu Cun is also to blame for this matter - just after the establishment of the Beijing Asian Games Organizing Committee, Xu Cun donated one billion Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to more than 300 million yuan) to the Asian Games, which made the Beijing Asian Organizing Committee overestimate their money-raising Ability.

In addition, with Xu Cun's help, China's reform and opening up in this life is obviously much more successful than the previous life, and it also made China much richer than the previous life.

Therefore, when the Beijing Asian Games Organizing Committee formulated the Olympic Sports Center, Asian Games Village and supporting facilities for the current Asian Games, it abruptly increased the project that could have been built with less than 3 billion yuan to at least 5 billion yuan. In order to build a good project.

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Now China can be regarded as a bit of a family.

But China needs to use this wealth to make money with world trade, and it is impossible to throw them at a sports meeting.

Moreover, the Ministry of Finance has successively allocated 1.3 billion yuan to the Asian Organizing Committee (only 700 million yuan was allocated in the previous life.).

Therefore, for the remaining funding gap of more than 2 billion yuan, calling for private fundraising has become the only way.

To this end, the Asian Games Organizing Committee has set up a "fund-raising department" - donations, sale of broadcast rights, advertisements, construction of the Asian Games Village to sell houses, issuance of sports lottery tickets, etc. A number of media, including People's Daily, also launched the activity of "Looking for the No. 1 Donor of the Beijing Asian Games", and the whole country was immersed in the passionate atmosphere of hosting the Asian Games.

Faced with the difficulties encountered in the preparations for the Beijing Asian Games, the whole country launched a donation boom from top to bottom.

"The people of the whole country are hosts!"

"Everyone cares about the Asian Games, and everyone contributes to the Asian Games"

"The Asian Games strive for honor for the country, and I will add glory to the Asian Games!"

From central government leaders to people from all walks of life, from retirees to kindergarten children, Chinese people including compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese donated money and materials for the Asian Games, performed and sold free clinics.

Huo Yingdong, a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong, personally donated 100 million yuan to build the "Yingdong Swimming Pool" named after him.

According to statistics later, the Fundraising Department of the Beijing Asian Organizing Committee received nearly 200 million donations, of which the total amount of donations reached 600 million yuan (more than 300 million yuan was donated by Xu Cun, and 100 million yuan was donated by Huo Yingzhong. In other words, the other nearly 200 million person-times actually donated a total of 170 million RMB. This shows that China is really poor now.).

But even so, there is still a gap of nearly 2 billion yuan, and it is still difficult to raise a gap.

In addition, there is no turning back when the bow is opened - the Asian Games project that has been planned and has been under construction for nearly two years cannot be stopped at all.

Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, the Asian Organizing Committee has to find a way to plug the two billion that is difficult to raise!

I don't know when, a saying became popular in Chinese official circles - find Xu Cun if you have difficulties.

Therefore, the desperate Asian Organizing Committee tried a lot to contact Xu Cun who was vacationing on Musha Island, hoping that Xu Cun could close the gap that was hard to raise for the two billion.

The members of the Asian Organizing Committee also knew that it would be shameless to ask Xu Cun for money again—after all, Xu Cun had already donated one billion Hong Kong dollars two years ago.

After some discussion and research, the Asian Games Organizing Committee gave Xu Cun the four best plots of land in the Asian Games Village. I feel that the difference is still too much. Before discussing with Xu Cun, the Asian Organizing Committee discussed with the Beijing Municipal Government and got Xu Cun two pieces of land in Chaoyang District. According to the current land price in Beijing, These six pieces of land are worth about 400 million yuan, which is too much.

After getting through Xu Cun's phone call, Wu Shaozu, the director of the Sports Committee who was appointed in danger, carefully talked about the actual difficulties of the Asian Games Organizing Committee, and hoped that Xu Cun would buy four pieces of land in the Asian Games Village and two pieces of land in Chaoyang District to help the Asian Organizing Committee solve part of the current funds. gap, and euphemistically expressed the hope that Xu Cun can donate some more money to the Asian Games.

Xu Cun pondered for a while on the other end of the phone, and said: "How about it, Director Wu, I will buy these six lands for one billion yuan, but I have one condition."

Wu Shaozu was overjoyed when Xu Cun said that he was willing to spend one billion yuan to buy these six pieces of land worth only 400 million yuan! Then he hurriedly said: "Say, Mr. Xu, as long as our Asian Organizing Committee can do it, we will definitely agree!"

Xu Cun said bluntly: "I hope that when signing the agreement, the actual prices of these six lands can be marked. If your Asian organizing committee is not too embarrassing, I also hope that the authoritative price department can issue a relevant certificate. price procedure."

Upon hearing Xu Cun's request on this point, Wu Shaozu immediately took care of it and said, "Mr. Xu, please rest assured that these two matters will be taken care of by my old Wu!"

Xu Cun said: "Then I will leave it to you, Director Wu. Well... I will personally donate another two billion Hong Kong dollars. After all, the Asian Games is the Asian Games for every Chinese. As a Chinese, I should contribute a little bit."

Hearing that Xu Cun donated another 600 to 700 million RMB, Wu Shaozu was moved to tears! Immediately, Wu Shaozu choked up and said: "Mr. Xu, the people will never forget what you have done for the motherland!"

Xu Cun said hypocritically: "I don't want this."

Before Wu Shaozu could speak, Xu Cun said again: "I guess you may still have shortcomings, so I will let the artists of my company come to a national voluntary tour to help you plug in the missing part of the money, and by the way, promote our Asian Games."

"Mr. Xu..."

Wu Shaozu was so moved that he couldn't even speak!

Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, Wu Shaozu asked: "Mr. Xu, on behalf of all the members of the Asian Committee, please come to the Asian Games Village and meet our athletes!"

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