On the evening of January 31st, #Andy Lau sang Gong Xi Fa Cai in Dong Yuhui’s live broadcast room, #Andy Lau appeared in the live broadcast room of "Walking with Hui", and many other topics became hot searches.
According to the Securities Times, at 8 pm on January 31, Andy Lau and Ning Hao appeared in the "Walking with Hui" live broadcast room to talk with Dong Yuhui with the theme of "communication and understanding". The background of this conversation is that the movie "Mr. Red Carpet" directed by Ning Hao and starring Andy Lau was released on February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Andy Lau sang "Gong Xi Fa Cai" in the live broadcast room of "Walking with Fai". Image source: Video screenshot
Before Andy Lau showed up, there were already many people waiting in the live broadcast room. At the beginning of the live broadcast, Dong Yuhui revealed that the number of viewers in the live broadcast room exceeded 1.5 million and continues to increase. The 300,000 movie tickets corresponding to the online shopping cart were all snatched up instantly , and many viewers also applied for additional tickets at the message box.
During the live broadcast, Andy Lau said that he had known about Dong Yuhui's live broadcast room before. Ning Hao said that his parents like Dong Yuhui very much, "My mother was very excited when she heard that I was coming to your live broadcast room. She said that she was finally sitting with a good student."
Image source: Video screenshot
It is worth noting that, according to CCTV News, on January 30, the 11th National Congress of the China Film Association concluded in Beijing. Chen Daoming was elected as the 11th Chairman of the China Film Association, and Andy Lau, Wu Jing (Manchu), Huang Bo, Huang Xiaoming, Fu Ruoqing, and Huo Tingxiao were elected as the 11th Vice Chairman of the China Film Association.
Regarding his new identity, Andy Lau said that the market is slowly getting hotter and there is such an opportunity. He hopes that Hong Kong movies will be in line with the mainland and content integration will be further advanced.
Oriental Selection bucked the market trend and soared! New Oriental and Yu Minhong promised to purchase a total of HK$700 million of Oriental Selection shares at market price!
In the market, on January 31, Oriental Selection (hk1797) once soared 7.85%, and finally closed at HK$23 per share, up 6.24%.
On the evening of January 31, Oriental Selection (hk1797, stock price: 23 Hong Kong dollars/share, total market value: HK$23.38 billion) and New Oriental (hk9901, stock price: 59.45 Hong Kong dollars/share, total market value: 97.69 billion Hong Kong dollars) joint announcement, Oriental The Selection Board of Directors and the New Oriental Board of Directors have each approved the termination of the subscription agreement and entered into a termination agreement; New Oriental and Yu Minhong have each committed to purchase Oriental Selection shares with a total value of HK$700 million on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at market prices.
announced that New Oriental and Yu Minhong (the director and CEO of Oriental Selection and a director of New Oriental) still have confidence in the future prospects and business potential of Oriental Selection, and are fully committed to increasing their respective equity holdings in Oriental Selection.
Among them: (a) New Oriental has committed to purchase Oriental Selection shares with a total value of HK$660 million, which will be beneficially held by New Oriental after the purchase (i.e., New Oriental’s commitment), and (b) Yu Minhong has committed to purchase Oriental Selection shares with a total value of HK$40 million. The selection shares will be beneficially held by Yu Minhong or a corporation controlled by him after purchase (i.e. director's commitment). The share purchase exercise will be carried out gradually over a period of six to twelve months from the date of this announcement and will be subject to and comply with applicable laws and regulations including the Listing Rules and the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
Previously, on January 24, Oriental Selection released the "Interim Results Announcement" stating that in the six months ending on November 30, 2023, the company's total revenue increased by 34.4% year-on-year to 2.795 billion yuan, and the company's owners should account for the period. Profit was 249 million yuan, a decrease of 57.4% compared with the same period last year.
Recently, Yu Minhong, chairman and CEO of Oriental Selection, emphasized that the split between "Walking with Fai" and Oriental Selection is not so obvious, and many fans are fans of both accounts at the same time. Moreover, from the perspective of sales, although the daily traffic of Oriental Selection is not as high as that of "Walking with Hui", the sales of Oriental Selection are relatively stable, so the sales volume has not been greatly affected.
Regarding the platform’s dependence on Dong Yuhui, Yu Minhong said: “If Oriental Selection only relies on Dong Yuhui’s development alone, then this is not a normal company. A normal company should develop in an all-round way, and all these anchors will go all out. development, the company itself is also going all out to develop."
(Source: Daily Economic News)
