CCTV China Economic Person of the Year, hosted by the "Economic Half Hour" column, this year belongs to the first session. It also took the lead in launching the online voting model, with a total of more than 1.237,000 netizens voting for candidates, and then 10 economists and 50 financial journalists served as judges, and finally selected 10 economic persons of the year.

The program will be broadcast on New Year's Day, but since it is recorded, the real award presentation time is December 28.

The award ceremony was held at the Beijing Hotel. Perhaps because this was the first session, it was not even prepared for a dinner. The winners and judges from other places had stayed in the hotel arranged by CCTV early, and they could only eat a buffet tonight. After the award ceremony was over, they left.

I have to say that CCTV is very stingy!

Just like the Spring Festival Gala in previous years, the performance fee is only enough for round-trip air tickets and accommodation. Big-name stars have to lose money when participating in the Spring Festival Gala, and pay their wages to the accompanying assistant.

Song Weiyang had dinner in the courtyard and then took Chen Tao, Chen Si and Hong Weiguo to the hotel, and was then guided by the staff to the lounge.

"Boss Song, long time no see you." Wang Shitou greeted him on his own initiative.

Song Weiyang walked over with a smile, gave Wang Shitou a hug, exchanged greetings and reminiscing, then turned around and shook hands with Zhang Ruiming and said, "Mr. Zhang, I wish you a happy New Year's Day in advance."

"Boss Song is so polite," Zhang Ruiming said quickly, "I wish you a happy New Year's Day, too."

Wang Shitou pointed to the seat against the wall and said, "Old Wu is there."

Song Weiyang nodded and said, "As soon as I came in, I saw that there were the most people around Mr. Wu, so let's not join in the fun for the time being."

Among Mr. Wu’s 10 winners this year, the only pure scholar is most of the others, and most of them are corporate bosses, and there is also a chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

At this moment, Mr. Wu and the chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission were sitting on a chair, surrounded by more than a dozen financial personnel, and even financial reporters were taking the opportunity to interview.

On the other side of the lounge, Lenovo President Liu was chatting with Boss Zhang of Oriental Group, and the boss of Qingdao Beer was chatting with CEO of Hisense.

Suddenly, a few more people came in, and the leader was Mr. Tian of Netcom. Song Weiyang immediately went over to say hello.

The boss of Netcom must provide support, because Song Weiyang also has to do online games. The telecom servers in the north are too stuck, and only Netcom can retain players.

"Hello, Mr. Tian!" Song Weiyang said with a smile and shook hands.

The President Tian smiled and said, "Boss Song, I have long admired Daming. Today I finally saw the real person!"

Song Weiyang said: "Each one another."

President Tian said a few casual words and ran to President Liu directly. Obviously, his relationship with President Liu was not ordinary, and later he even became a non-executive director of Lenovo.

After a brief exchange between the 10 award recipients, they were clearly divided into three small groups; one was a financial group, led by Mr. Wu and Consultant Liang; one was an electronics and communication group, led by Mr. Liu and Mr. Tian, ​​and all members of the Taishan Association were also vassals there; the other was an industrialist group, with the core figures being the bosses of Haier, Hisense and Qingdao Beer, which happened to be the three from Qingyu City.

Song Weiyang didn't go anywhere, and sat alone in the corner playing with his cell phone, talking to Chen Tao and Shen Si from time to time.

There were 50 financial reporters in the lounge, all of whom were judges of this event. These people chatted with the bosses everywhere, and of course Song Weiyang was not let go. Several of them asked him to do exclusive interviews another day.

"Boss Song, didn't you bother you?" A young man in his 30s came over.

Song Weiyang nodded and smiled: "Hello."

The young man held his glasses and took out his business card and said, "I am Wu Xiaobo, a reporter from the Zhejiang Branch of Xinhua News Agency, and graduated from the Fudan News Department in 1990."

Song Weiyang immediately shook hands and said, "Hello, senior, I have long admired my name!"

"I dare not be a famous person, I only have some flaws in the circle," said Wu Xiaobo. "I have always wanted to interview Boss Song, but unfortunately I didn't have the chance. This is a great regret in my heart."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I'm afraid you have interviewed more than 90% of the well-known Chinese entrepreneurs?"

Wu Xiaobo said: "It should be 50%.

Song Weiyang said: "Among all the financial writers in China, I like the articles you write the most. The information is detailed, the views are novel, the serious, and the text is full of agility."

Wu Xiaobo said: "I am very happy to have such a high evaluation from Boss Song."

Song Weiyang suddenly smiled and said, "After all, I am a senior. Of course, I have to pick up good words when I meet for the first time."

Wu Xiaobo pointed casually: "Qin Shuo over there is also an alumnus. He was in the same class as me in Fudan and was also admitted to graduate school at the same time. He is now the editor-in-chief of "Nanfeng Window"."

Song Weiyang said: "One day I will invite two seniors to dinner and accept your interview by the way. Anyway, I can't escape this interview."

Wu Xiaobo is very eye-catching. When another reporter comes, he takes the initiative to say goodbye and give up his seat.

After waiting for about half an hour, everyone was taken to the hotel auditorium. Ten winners and award presenters sat in the front row, economists and financial reporters sat up from the second row, and Chen Tao, Shen Si, Hong Weiguo and other friends of the winners sat at the end.

The host is a man and a woman, both of whom are guest stars of the host of "Economic Half Hour". The man is called Zhao He and the woman is called Wang Xiaoya.

Zhao He's hosting style is relatively stable, Wang Xiaoya's hosting style is relatively lively, and the two match together complement each other. This year is the first session. The host first talked about the original intention of the selection event, and introduced several heavyweight award presenters, and finally got to the point.

There is no large screen on site, and VCR cannot be played. The host can only read the winner's resume and award words.

The first person to come to the stage to receive the award was Mr. Liu of Lenovo, followed by the chief consultant of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. The third person read Song Weiyang's name... regardless of ranking, he directly arranged the order in the pinyin of the name, so that no one would offend him.

"Let us applaud the award presenter, President Yu of the China Council for Promotion of International Trade!" host Zhao He said loudly.

President Yu was wearing a loose suit, waved his hand and walked in from the side of the stage, shook hands with host Zhao He and stood side by side.

Zhao He asked with a smile: "The winner who will be announced soon has created many Chinese firsts and is also very famous in society. Can President Yu guess who this person is?"

President Yu said: "The 10 candidates this year are all very famous and have all created the best in China. Your questions are too broad."

"Then listen to me read the award speech," Zhao He said in a standard broadcast accent, "He is a contemporary young entrepreneurial idol in China. In the business tide of reform and opening up, he became a trendsetter at the age of 17. He owns the first private enterprise to be listed overseas. The agricultural cooperation model created by this enterprise has helped more than 80,000 farmers across the country increase their income..."

The winning words were read for three minutes, and Zhao He asked, "President Yu, do you know who it is now?"

President Yu smiled and said, "It's Xifeng's Boss Song, I met him yesterday."

Zhao He said in surprise: "Did you meet him yesterday?"

President Yu nodded and said, "Yes. We are discussing something that is conducive to the development of many domestic companies. The progress is currently going well. As for the content, you will know next year."

"It seems like another great thing," Zhao He said, "President Yu, come and announce it officially."

President Yu slowly opened the envelope: "The one who won the first CCTV economic figure of the year is Song Weiyang!"

"Smack!"

Song Weiyang walked onto the podium with applause and took the trophy from President Yu: "Thanks to CCTV, thanks to "Economic Half Hour", and also to President Yu. At that time, we should thank the country even more. Without the great decision of reform and opening up, there would be no chance for me to come to the stage to receive the award today. Thank you!"

"Okay, let's leave the stage to Mr. Song Weiyang." Zhao He said and left with President Yu.

Wang Xiaoya then walked up to the podium, stood beside Song Weiyang and said, "Mr. Song, choose one. Do you want to give a topic selection speech or accept a live interview?"

A topic-chosen speech is filled with ten topics in the envelope. The winner will randomly draw one to give a speech. The on-site interview is an interview with Wang Xiaoya.

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Let's interview on the spot, it's a great time to chat with the beautiful girl."

"It's a great honor," Wang Xiaoya opened the note in her hand. "Mr. Song, there are 5 questions on this note, all of which were selected from the questions asked by netizens. The first question is, how much money do you have?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The audience burst into laughter because this topic is very popular and is often discussed in paper media and online forums.

Song Weiyang asked: "Do you really want to answer?"

Wang Xiaoya said: "I think this is what everyone here and the people of the whole country want to know. Of course, Mr. Song can also choose to keep it confidential."

Song Weiyang said: "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Wang Xiaoya said in surprise.

Song Weiyang said: "I really don't know, it's not that I want to conceal it deliberately. I haven't touched money on these two companies for a long time, and I have not even counted the dividends of shareholders who have been transferred to the account every year. Taurus Capital has invested in many projects. How much these projects are worth requires professional property personnel to figure it out. Take Google in the United States for example. It was valued at more than one billion US dollars a year ago, but now it has fallen to hundreds of millions of US dollars. These assets are changing at any time."

Wang Xiaoya summarized: "In other words, you are too much money to count?"

"This is not enough, you can still count clearly by counting carefully." Song Weiyang said.

Wang Xiaoya said: "Counting money is also a worry."

Song Weiyang said: "It's true."

Wang Xiaoya said: "I want to have this trouble too."

"Hahaha!"

The scene burst into laughter again.

Wang Xiaoya said: "So, let's change the point. You ranked second in the 'Hurun Rich List' this year, with your personal assets counting at 10 billion yuan. You roughly estimate that the data is really more than 10 billion yuan, or less than 10 billion yuan?"

Song Weiyang said: "Let's get more."

"Are you too much?" Wang Xiaoya confirmed again.

Song Weiyang said: "Anyway, Hu Run was just guessing when he was doing statistics. I am just guessing now. It depends on who you believe in."

Several other bosses laughed because Hu Run guessed this statement, which obviously hit their laugh point.

Wang Xiaoya said again: "The second question for netizens is, what is your biggest worry?"

Song Weiyang said solemnly: "He is so handsome."

"Ah?" Wang Xiaoya was stunned.

Song Weiyang said with a serious expression: "I have a friend named Ma Xiaoyun. He always tells people that a man's wisdom is inversely proportional to his appearance, which is equivalent to determining my IQ is negative. I usually don't dare to go out for fear of being watched by girls and making people fall in love with him. Among the 10 winners today, I dare not be the first in other places, but I must be the most handsome. So when I was in the lounge before, they sat together and chatted, leaving me alone in the corner to play with my phone. This is so handsome that I was isolated by everyone."

The other nine winners sat in the audience, smiling one after another, all amused by Song Weiyang's shamelessness.

Wang Xiaoya was fucking her stomach and thinking, "Well... Mr. Song is very humorous and confident. People with humor and confident often succeed."

Song Weiyang said: "Thank you, the host for helping me summarize my successful experience."

There was laughter again at the scene, and those who didn't know thought it was a talk show.

Wang Xiaoya was almost unable to hold it. Song Weiyang's thinking was too out of the blue and hurriedly said: "The third question from netizens is that as the world's richest man, Bill Gates donated $16 billion in 1999, and in 2000, he donated $5.1 billion in 2000. As a wealthy Chinese tycoon, how does Mr. Song view charity? How much money do you plan to donate?"

This question seems pretentious, but CCTV is very sensible because they have investigated and know that Song Weiyang has charitable donations every year, which is equivalent to helping Song Weiyang promote his positive image in disguise.

Song Weiyang didn't play by the rules at all: "The 20 billion US dollars donated by Bill Gates are a reasonable tax avoidance method."

The director of the program and Wang Xiaoya's face suddenly changed at the same time, and hundreds of people at the scene were also shocked. They were all incredible by Song Weiyang's answer - not surprised that Bill Gates was evading taxes, but surprised that Song Weiyang dared to say anything.

Wang Xiaoya smiled and said, "Why is it a tax avoidance method?"

Song Weiyang said: "This is not what I said, it is what the American Fortune magazine said. American charitable funds can be tax-free, and charitable funds can be used for investment. Bill Gates' donations are donated to his own funds. These donations have no accurate purpose, and it means that the money is his own, but it is just a name. Of course, I appreciate Bill Gates' charitable actions. Although he may be for tax avoidance, he will definitely use this money to do charity, which can help many people in need. As for netizens asking me when I donate, I donate millions of dollars every year, unlike Bill Gates, who donate tens of billions of dollars at once. Don't ask me about charity questions in the future, otherwise it will be a show if you say too much."

Wang Xiaoya is completely unsure now. She has informed Song Weiyang in advance of the program process. Even if Song Weiyang chooses to give a speech, the topics of the "random" speech must be revealed in advance. The first two winners are very stable. Just like Song Weiyang, this guy, Wang Xiaoya said in fear: "The fourth question, do you have confidence in the upcoming Chinese economy in 2001?"

Song Weiyang said: "A variety of data show that China's economy will completely get out of the predicament in 2001. Entrepreneurs can take action. Next year, there are opportunities everywhere, just to see if you have the ability and luck to seize it!"

Wang Xiaoya finally breathed a sigh of relief and did not dare to make jokes anymore. She quickly asked the fifth question.

Today's award ceremony was broadcast live online. When Song Weiyang said that Bill Gates' donations were tax avoidance, it directly caused netizens to quarrel. Because there is no such thing as charity tax avoidance at all, Bill Gates' $20 billion donation was praised to the sky, which made many Chinese people admire and admire it. As a result, it was a long time to make a fuss to avoid taxes.
Chapter completed!