"I got a big bargain, or would I have done it so soon?" 10/0 On October 30th, Huang Weijian, like a housewife who came back from a special auction, said smugly, "I only spent $45 million on a boat that cost at least $250 million to build."
Huang Weijian is the chairman of Wenzhou Private Capital Investment Service Center. The "Asia Star" cruise ship he just bought is the flagship luxury product under the name of Mr. Stanley Ho, and it has been renamed as "China Star". The only six-star catamaran cruise ship in the world is 13 1.2m long and 32m wide. There are 172 rooms on the 12 floor, which can carry more than 400 passengers.
"The cruise ship is being renovated after taking over and can be opened to Zhejiang during the year." Huang Weijian revealed.
This luxury goods transaction is only the first step in the overall plan of the upstart under 40. Signed an investment agreement with Zhoushan Municipal Government of Zhejiang Province to build a "cruise industry empire" with Zhejiang as the core. "We want to form the first cruise fleet in China." He said.
"Picked up a bargain"
The idea of acquisition sprouted because of an accidental opportunity.
In mid-April this year, Huang Weijian visited Chongqing with the Wenzhou Economic and Trade Delegation to participate in the activities of Wenzhou Week in Chongqing. From an overseas Chinese in Paraguay, Huang Weijian learned that "Asia Star" would be sold.
"Cruise is a hot emerging industry in China," Huang Weijian said. "China will have an unprecedented cruise tourism market in the future, and now it is the lowest price."
The bid for "Asia Star" gave Huang Weijian the impulse to bargain-hunting.
"Asia Star" was built in 1992, and it cost more than 2 billion yuan at that time. "Now the cost of the new cruise ship is 65.438+0 million tons, which is 65.438+0.2 billion dollars. According to this calculation, the tonnage of this ship is 20,295 tons, and the construction needs 250 million US dollars, while the asking price is only tens of millions of US dollars. This is too cost-effective! "
Of course, there are exchange rate changes. At that time, the US dollar exchange rate was 8.9, and now it is 6.35. But Huang Weijian still thinks it's worth it. "As far as the steel plate of this ship is concerned, our domestic technology can't be done now." He made the final decision. When the acquisition was launched in June, it coincided with the outbreak of Wenzhou usury crisis and the company's position was in a hurry. However, when Huang Weijian and others raised funds for this acquisition in Hongkong, all the capitals were very enthusiastic. In addition to Wenzhou, there are also investors from Fujian, Beijing, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Shanxi, and a large number of overseas Chinese funds returning from Europe and the United States. Under the European debt crisis, the European and American markets are weak and overseas Chinese funds are also looking for a way out.
In order to facilitate the entry and exit of overseas funds, it is not bound by mainland policies. Huang Weijian established China Marine Industry Investment Company in Hongkong for this acquisition, so as to raise funds as a whole.
Because there are too many participants who want to sign up, the original fundraising scale of 400 million has expanded to 500 million. It only took more than three months from fund-raising and negotiation to closing on September 26th. Generally speaking, such an acquisition will take at least one year.
After the acquisition, it was renovated. Huang Weijian said that the "China Star" cruise project cost a total of $65 million.
Dream of "Cruise Empire"
Buying a cruise ship is only the first step.
One month after the acquisition, 10125 October, Huang Weijian People's Capital Center signed an investment agreement with Zhoushan with a value of 2 billion yuan, preparing to open cruise routes from Zhejiang to Keelung and Taichung Port in Taiwan Province with Zhoushan as the home port.
Huang Weijian revealed that these routes are being submitted to the government for approval and are expected to sail from the end of this year to the beginning of next year.
The cruise terminal located at the former site of Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong was opened in 20 13. After the planning of Hainan International Tourism Island is clear, he also wants to expand the cruise route between Hong Kong and Hainan.
Huang Weijian's greater "ambition" is to build "China's own cruise fleet". He intends to buy four or five international cruise ships and gradually open international tourist routes from Zhejiang to South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The "cruise empire" in Huang's dream includes tourism, film and television, commerce, entertainment, professional exchanges and other industrial chain links. The acquisition of "Asia Star" raised more than 500 million yuan, 4160,000 yuan was used for the acquisition, and the extra10,000 yuan, Huang Weijian decided to set up a film and television company to shoot movies around the cruise ship.
He is also interested in the yacht industry and is currently negotiating to acquire a yacht manufacturer in Europe. "Yacht-related design, manufacturing, maintenance, marine tourism and high-end leisure industries will also be a big part of the future."
As a Wenzhou native, Huang Weijian finally wants to drive his cruise ship back to his hometown. He intends to initiate the establishment of Wenzhou Marine Industry Development Fund, and wants to establish a cruise economic headquarters base in Wenzhou.
Wenzhou's luxury turn?
When Huang Weijian completed the acquisition, Wenzhou was mired in usury. Under the coordination of the government, Huang transferred 200 million yuan from Hong Kong to Wenzhou to help local enterprises repay their loans.
Young Huang Weijian is from Lucheng, Wenzhou. In his early years, he managed Wenzhou Digital City, and then went to Hangzhou and Beijing to do venture capital. Compared with Huang Wei, another Wenzhou capital tycoon and head of the New Lake Department, Huang Weijian is even more high-profile, and some people even say that he is "a little puffed up".
After hosting the establishment of Wenzhou Private Capital Investment Service Center, Huang Weijian's attention has further increased. This platform was established in June, 2065438+00 with the support of Wenzhou government.
Wenzhou has huge private capital, and according to the estimation of local regulatory agencies, the capacity of private lending has reached more than 60 billion. These production lines made meager profits and swarmed with speculation, which eventually led to the usury crisis. It has always been the idea of local governments to seek new economic growth points and guide the transformation and upgrading of private capital investment industries.
"The function of the private capital center is to gather Wenzhou private funds and guide them to invest in emerging industries encouraged by the government." A financial supervision official in Wenzhou who participated in the establishment of a private capital center explained, "While looking for different types of investment projects, we accept the registration of private funds with willingness to invest, so that capital and projects can be docked on this platform."
The Private Capital Center claims that in the past year, about 654.38+07 billion yuan of funds have found investment projects through private capital centers, and the registered private funds seeking investment are between 654.38+05 billion and 654.38+08 billion yuan.
After the usury crisis broke out this year, private capital centers were also ordered to operate some projects in Wenzhou Financial Comprehensive Reform Zone, such as private lending registration centers. The comprehensive financial reform zone under construction aims to seek new value-added outlets for Wenzhou private capital.
Therefore, in today's troubled times, the government's intention is faintly visible behind this joint acquisition led by Huang Weijian and with the participation of funds from the three sides of the strait.
"Starting the cruise industry is to give everyone a demonstration, so that everyone can see that Wenzhou not only has usury and real estate speculators, but also has attraction and development potential as long as there are good projects." A person in charge of the private capital center said.
In Huang Weijian's view, the industrial power brought by the cruise economy to the city is enormous. "The economic benefit of building an international cruise home port is 10 to 14 times that of the port of call." Huang Weijian plans to invest 800 million yuan to build Wenzhou cruise economic headquarters in the future. The headquarters will be responsible for the supply, management, maintenance, material distribution and customer reception of the cruise fleet.
This idea has also been supported and docked by the government. The construction of Zhuangyuanao Cruise Terminal in Dongtou County is accelerating. "Our goal is to show the national cruise industry under the leadership of private capital."