Energy: profiteering list topped the list for a reason
Keywords: coal bosses, oil shortage, government coal collusion
Beijing's Mr. Wang is now driving a new habit, far from seeing the red light is on, hanging in neutral on the skidding. He didn't do this before, but did so solely because neutral saves gas. The soaring gas prices along the way have forced him to figure out how to reduce the frequency of refueling.
The year 2005 was all about energy, and it was all about profiteering or price increases. Oil prices, coal prices, as well as the annual staging of a large area of "power shortage", so that Beijing's residential electricity also rose from 0.44 yuan to 0.48 yuan.
Small and large coal mine accidents, we can hear almost every other day. Behind the repeated collusion between government and coal is the support of profiteering.
This year's various rich list and a new force, is from Tangshan or Shanxi, this kind of energy-producing areas of coal mine owners. Despite all the news that next year there is a trend of supply exceeding demand for electricity in China, but this can not affect our determination to put energy in the first place on the list of profiteering.
Whether or not the energy industry is one day able to fade out of the era of profiteering, the year 2005 alone is absolutely all the way up.
Pharmaceuticals and health care: when will reform succeed?
Keywords: 5 million medicine, health care reform iron failure, number of traffickers
The end of 2003, in a pharmaceutical industry seminar, the National Development and Reform Commission, a director was invited to attend. When the director stood on the lectern and asked the audience, "Do you want to hear the truth?" After getting the expected answer, the director asked all the reporters present to turn off their interviewers. For the next half an hour, all we could hear were complaints and grievances, contradictions and incongruities between various departments. Strangely enough, not a single reporter reported on this matter after this meeting. And the reason for the lack of coverage was simple: everyone felt a loss of confidence and a lack of hope. A year later, when the official announcement of the failure of the health care reform was made, people already seemed unperturbed.
Based on the ratio of the retail price of drugs to the cost of production, the retail price of many drugs is more than three times the cost of production, and it doesn't seem wrong at all to include drugs in the profiteering industry. The high price of drugs, for pharmaceutical companies is false, most of the difference is not attributed to the production company profit account. According to the investigation of the relevant personnel, drugs from the factory to the final to the hands of consumers, the enterprise is currently only about 15% of the profits, the rest is in circulation, which most of the profits fell into the hospital. This phenomenon, called drug prices are high. Drug prices are inflated to what extent? Let's look at the "affordable drugs" sales know. Hefei's people edge pharmacy, the average drug price reduction of 45%, the pharmacy is still profitable.
This is often the case, and when legitimate interests are not protected, the interests will lurk in a roundabout way, and the amount is even greater than that obtained in a legitimate way. When governments resolved a few years ago to give up financial support for most and reduce it for a small number of hospitals, the so-called "profiteering" was already well established and justified in the industry.
Primary and secondary education: unethical high profitability
Keywords: school fees, compulsory education all free
Recently, in Hunan Guiyang County, six of the withholding of student meals incident once again focused people's attention to the education industry. In three and a half years, the deduction of student meal costs nearly a million dollars. Most of these meal expenses were misappropriated or privately shared by the school, while students basically had to eat only boiled bean dregs skin for every meal, and three meals a day did not reach the standard of 3 yuan. (China Youth Daily reported on Dec. 7)
According to conservative estimates by some education experts, 10 years of indiscriminate education fees have taken more than 200 billion yuan from the pockets of primary and secondary school students.
The profiteering in primary and secondary education is the last thing we want to see. Primary and secondary education is supposed to be a public good. In our country, schools are fully-funded financial institutions. Since they are public welfare organizations, they should not aim at making profits. However, primary and secondary education is not only profit-making, but has also become a profiteering industry. Some people think that it is a national shame that education has become a profiteering industry. Regarding the profiteering of this industry, it comes from the indiscriminate charging of fees. In essence, the education of indiscriminate fees in the final analysis is the "use of public **** power for private profit.
Beijing is probably the most serious area for school choice. It is said that the normal fee for choosing a school is 30,000 yuan, while many of the first-class school selection fee is seriously over the standard, up to 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and some even as high as 60,000 or 70,000 yuan. There are 791 secondary schools in the Beijing area***, of which more than 200, or about one-third, have selective schools. Comprehensive calculations, the city's annual income of secondary school selective students in more than 1 billion yuan, and this is only a relatively conservative estimate. According to preliminary statistics, there are at least 20 secondary schools in Beijing with revenues of more than ten million dollars, and these revenues can be regarded as pure profits. In another big city, Shanghai, the government has explicitly stipulated that the maximum (one-time) school selection fees for boarding senior high schools and municipal key high schools are 40,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan respectively. As for the use of these fees, in Beijing, school choice fees for high schools are not paid, and those for junior high schools usually retain 70 to 75 percent of the fees, with the remaining 25 to 30 percent uniformly transferred by the education bureau to the three types of schools with weaker teachers, in order to improve the teachers' strength and teaching standards of the three types of schools.
In China, children's money is always so good. Children's education has become one of the biggest consumer expenditures for many families. In addition to primary and secondary education, even kindergartens are monstrously profitable. Some parents complain that primary and secondary school students cost more money than college students. We hope that, in China, children are able to enjoy the country's education to the greatest extent possible, and even more so, we hope that less money will be spent, or the money that is spent, will be used to improve the children's education.
Funeral: no way to calculate the profit
Keywords: marked price
According to the survey, many funeral services and funeral supplies operators do not mark prices, and the phenomenon of asking for money is common. Jinan Lok River District, a funeral supplies store Mr. Li said: "Now funeral supplies are the price, we want to be high, I can not be sold at a low price, and many people also think that the more expensive to the dead on the more respect, cheap people are still not willing to buy it!"
This is an industry that we are all too shy to mention. But everyone always inevitably has to deal with them at some point. The biggest news about this industry is that it's very high on the list of profitable industries of all years.
Why is there such a large profit margin. The Chinese are a nation that honors filial piety. When a loved one passes away, many people are willing to see them off in style during the final send-off. This has fueled the industry's habit of asking for exorbitant prices.
An urn that costs only a few dozen dollars can be sold for three or four thousand dollars or more. The death of a loved one often costs tens of thousands of dollars. Typically, the funeral industry is able to guarantee a profit of about 300 percent in general, and can even reach 1,000 or even 2,000 percent.
Teaching materials publishing: please give a chance to choose the textbook
Keywords: teaching materials, Xinhua Bookstore
July this year, Xinhua News Agency published an article, "a large number of officials," behind the publishing and distribution of "water. How deep", threw out the publishing and distribution industry in the chain of corruption.
Gao Shengrong, former manager of the Xinhua Bookstore in Linxian County, Shanxi Province, embezzled more than 7 million yuan of public funds, was sentenced to death by the Lvliang Intermediate Court in the first instance, with a two-year reprieve. Hou Fukang was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes and embezzlement; Liu Che, who was the manager of the Finance Department of Hunan Xinhua Bookstore and the head of the Audit Section, embezzled 10 million yuan to speculate on stocks, almost bloodless, resulting in a direct economic loss of 11,740,000 yuan, at the beginning of 2004, Liu Che was sentenced to death. So many officials one after another east window, visible Xinhua bookstore such a distribution unit has inevitably become the hardest hit by corruption, which has a long monopoly on the distribution of textbooks, has a profiteering discount rebates are inextricably linked.
The lucrative textbook publishing industry is mainly related to the highly administrative monopoly of the textbook publishing and distribution system that has been practiced in China -- the monopoly of the education administration on editing and reviewing, the monopoly of the education publishing house on publishing, and the monopoly of the Xinhua bookstore on distribution. Mr. Ma Zhanfeng, general manager of China Education Network and executive director of China Association of Educators, believes that China's primary and secondary school textbook publishing and distribution has always been in accordance with the publishing administration designated publishing houses, Xinhua Bookstore total distribution of this monopoly operation mechanism, the textbook industry is basically a monopoly. Although China began to implement the reform of primary and secondary school textbook distribution in 2002, the introduction of competition mechanism, not simply rely on Xinhua Bookstore, but the monopoly of Xinhua Bookstore in the short term is still difficult to break. Textbook distribution has been the "profit cow" of Xinhua bookstores at all levels for several years. According to expert analysis, at present, most provinces Xinhua bookstore more than 70% of the profits rely on the distribution of teaching materials, in many grass-roots Xinhua bookstores, this ratio is even as high as 90% or more. According to the statistics of the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China, 170,962 kinds of books were published in the country, with a total print run of 6,870,000,000 copies and a total pricing of 53,512,000,000 Yuan, while 8,260 kinds of primary and secondary school textbooks were published, with a total print run of 3,312,400,000 copies and a total pricing of 15,498,000,000 Yuan. The varieties of primary and secondary school textbooks accounted for only 4.8% of the total varieties of books, but the total print run and total pricing accounted for 48% and 29% respectively.
Highway: transportation director have fallen behind
Keywords: Bi Yuxi, Department of Transportation
The profiteering of the transportation industry can be clearly reflected from a typical case and a peculiar phenomenon. On March 16 this year, Bi Yuxi, former deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Transportation, was sentenced to a suspended death sentence for accepting bribes and misappropriating state assets. He became the 17th director of the Department of Transportation to "fall from grace" in China since 1997. This long list of directors has also become the preferred case in the China section of the 2005 Global Corruption Report just released by Transparency International, a leading international anti-corruption organization.
The phenomenon of "roads open to traffic, the director falls" has become a major feature of China's anti-corruption field, and even appeared a rare phenomenon in Henan Province, where three directors of transportation were "corrupted" before and after. Why has the transportation system become a "corruption-hit area", the reason, I'm afraid, including highways, including the existence of the transportation industry profiteering can not be blamed.
According to a CCTV report, an ordinary toll collector on a highway in Jiangsu province earns more than 8,000 yuan a month, and some even earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, which shows that the profiteering in this industry has risen to what extent. Moreover, the highway company has huge cash flow, take Fujian Expressway for example, its operating cash flow per share is as high as RMB 0.68, and its high cash flow is not comparable to any other industry in China. Therefore, the highway industry is figuratively compared to a high-speed money printing machine.
The profiteering nature of the expressway industry has led to the commercialization of the expressway industry, and the commercialization of the expressway has complemented and continued to promote the growth of its profits. Take the Beijing Capital Airport Highway as an example, in the first half of 2005, the traffic flow of the capital airport highway increased by 10.68%, turnover increased by 9.7%. This data can be seen, the traffic flow of our highway is still showing a trend of rapid growth, the highway will continue to further maintain the profiteering nature.
Cable TV: the most unthinking industry
Key Division: price hikes
"So many homes, so many TVs, and yet they're all paying for one company." An expert who has long been concerned about the development of cable TV said so. After the price hike, Beijing, a city will bring 140 million yuan a year for the "Gehua Cable" new revenue. About this industry, can be summarized in one sentence: it is monopoly trouble. Beijing, with a population of more than 10 million, has only one cable TV network operator, which can be called the monopoly of monopolies.
Despite the rising cable TV rates, the quality of cable TV service has not risen with the "rising tide". Some analysts say: "Exclusive cable TV operating rights monopoly in China cable TV, is China's most enterprising industry, in addition to the wave after wave of TV charges, as if there is no other way to increase their own revenue. In foreign countries, developed countries have long seen the amazing resource potential of the cable TV network, cable TV network can not only be used to watch cable TV, but also can be used to access the Internet and make phone calls, completely triple play, not only can greatly reduce the waste of resources, but also can greatly reduce the user's expenses." In fact, it's no wonder that an industry that has absolutely no competitive pressure yet can reap huge profits where there is still any incentive to forge ahead!
Real estate: the house has become a kind of futures
Keywords: futures, monopoly
Today's real estate, in fact, has long been and the demand for homebuyers have no direct relationship, and the house for the developers, has long been not belong to the economic significance of the commodity category. The real estate market, similar to the futures market.
Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from January to August this year, the national average sales price of commercial real estate was 2,996 yuan per square meter, an increase of 18.7% compared with last year's price of 2,525 yuan per square meter. Real estate development also maintained a fast growth rate. from January to August, the country's real estate development investment of more than 890 billion yuan, an increase of more than 20 percent year-on-year.
The people's dream of housing is still a dream come true. Why is it so difficult to bring down housing prices? Standing on the side of the new housing reform if only real estate developers, then, the implementation of the new housing reform is too simple and easy. The problem is that the real estate developers are also standing beside the banks and the government departments in charge of the industry (not only the local government industry authorities), which is a very powerful group army. So it's hard to say who will win and who will lose.
The number of real estate companies in China is extremely large, although there is no monopoly name, but there has been a monopoly of reality. The reason is that, no matter how many developers, but in front of the buyers are showing extremely uniform behavior, as if it is the same company: the price is up all up, this property up that property up, the city up, the city followed by the rise in house prices, which continue to climb. Real estate price increase behavior, there seems to be a virtual head office in the price increase notice.
Some scholars have analyzed that real estate developers become rich in a short period of time, not by virtue of normal market competition, not by their personal market ability and market wisdom, but by using the power of the government to the disadvantaged groups of the city and the plunder of farmers' land resources. I think this points to the nature of the real estate developers to get rich: under the banner of the market, selling market prices, but enjoying the benefits of the scheme.
Online games: free, but still profiteering
Keywords: Chen Tianqiao, Internet cafes
November 28, "hot-blooded saga, permanently free of charge," eight blood-red letters jumped into the eyes of the player "Regulus", but he did not feel the slightest bit of this. But he did not feel the slightest excitement for this. "Today is not the same as in the past, and my monthly investment of thousands of dollars on the 'Legend' compared to the exemption of a month point card fee of 35 yuan is really nothing!"
"Hot-blooded Legend" has been running for three years, pushing Shanda boss Chen Tianqiao to the top of the Hurun edition of "China's 100 richest people"; "World of Warcraft" has been around for just a few months, turning Nine Cities into a profitable company. According to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by the end of April 2005, China's Internet users have exceeded 100 million, the number of Internet users in the world's second only to the United States. And one of the network game players has close to 20 million, such a huge number, it is the network game profit the most solid foundation. Because of this, by the network game to earn a lot of money, after the Shanda in order to return to the "popularity", at the expense of "Legend" of the "free" as the price.
Industry insiders say that the gross profit margin of the online game industry is as high as 50% or more, the highest even 75%, while the net interest rate is also between 25% -50%. The main reason is that, on the one hand, manufacturers only need to maintain and upgrade the management of online games, without plant, storage and manufacturing, to a large extent, cost savings. On the other hand, the online game because the game code is stored in a high security server, by a professional organization responsible for the management, so that compared with other products, especially the stand-alone version of the game, greatly reduces the outside world can be copied - piracy. That's why the major game makers are rushing in.
Cosmetic plastic surgery: beautiful behind the money
Keywords: Shi Sanba, South Korea plastic surgery beauty
In the capital is quite famous plastic surgeon Shi Sanba for other people have done countless plastic surgery, but she has been refused to move their own noses, in her view that is a symbol of wealth. Her big nose and cosmetic surgery industry for her to bring more and more abundant wealth does complement each other. The ordinary woman who had to think twice about buying a skewer of lamb for her son is now a successful woman with fame and fortune.
In Shi Sanba's store, the reporter also saw a series of huge plastic surgery costs: 28,000 yuan to grind the jaw angle, 18,000 yuan to fill the temples, 11,000 yuan to cut the upper and lower lips, 5,500-28,000 yuan to augment the rhinoplasty ...... When the beautician roughly took a look at the reporter's face, it was very easy to calculate the cost of a face. A face overall plastic surgery required cost, **** 120,000 yuan. And this total value of more than 100,000 yuan of surgery can be completed in just a few hours, like rhinoplasty so that some small surgery is even more out of the question, three minutes to complete a beautiful nose, pay is nearly 10,000 yuan of surgical costs. A little later the beautician is also very proud to tell reporters that on average every day at least 1-2 people to do more than 100,000 yuan of overall face contouring surgery.
A staff member in the beauty salon told reporters that they do a single facial basic care is 99 yuan, while the salon needs to be 30 cents of the cost. (Intern reporter Zhang Xue Li also contributed to this article)
Top 10 Profitable Industries in Ancient Modern Times
1. Opium Trade:
This is the most shameless trade in history, which has brought huge wealth to the West and endless disasters to China.
2. Triangular Trade: The mutual trade between glass balls and cheap toys in Western Europe, slaves in East Africa, and tobacco, sugar, coffee, and sweet peppers in North America, which was the most profitable voyage in the era of the
Great Maritime Age, with brutal primitive accumulation, and laid the economic foundation for the later expansion of the Western powers.
3. Silk Road
This was the most dangerous shipping route in ancient China, but also the most profitable, which promoted the trade prosperity of the countries passing through the route, but it was often affected by wars, and was gradually replaced by shipping.
4. spice route
This is Portugal's proudest trade, once for the expansion of Portugal to provide a lot of wealth, and then successively by the Netherlands, the United Kingdom operation, than the gold route has been obscure, but the essence of its profiteering even more than the former.
5. Sea porcelain road
Tang and Song dynasty since the development of shipbuilding industry into a large number of sea trade, but also the achievements of the Arab re-export trade, but also the achievements of the Italian re-export trade. After the weakening of China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this trade still created a large number of wealthy merchants in the South China Sea.
6. Gold Route
The common metal of the Inca Empire was the treasure of the colonizer's frantic convergence, gold mining to the point of madness. Unfortunately, this trade is mostly government-run, and the feudalism is very strong.
7. Private salt trade
Since the day when salt became a commodity, salt smuggling has become a way to get rich. Its profits are so high and the number of people involved is so wide that it is shocking. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, many big families have become rich by virtue of trafficking in smuggled salt.
8. Dye trade
The Phoenicians were famous merchants in ancient times, Phoenicia's name is the name of a purplish-red fuel they produced. Phoenicia was located in present-day Lebanon, and it was they who taught the Jews the ways of trade.
9. Trade in swords
The Damascus sword was the finest weapon in the ancient West, and in the years of war, sales of weapons increased dramatically, and arms dealers made a great deal of money, which was the road to riches for some Arab merchants.
10. Foreign cloth trade
The typical capitalist development of the market of feudal countries, because of the low cost of machine weaving, resulting in the loss of the market of Indian soil cloth, and foreign cloth opened up the situation in one fell swoop. This trade was relatively low-profit, but very stable, and was a big source of wealth for the British India Company.
Top Ten Illegal Profit-making Industries
1. Drug Trafficking
A 50 grams will be enough to kill a person's life in the line of work, if there is no high profit as a sneak, who will be willing to take their own head as a bet!
2. Private coal mines
Risking universal condemnation, abandon the miners' lives in disregard, in the mine owners dressed in bright, luxurious private car behind, is a private coal mine collapse, a live life of the fall.
3. Pirated CD-ROMs
Bought in pounds, sold at six or seven dollars a piece, one by one, those who sell pirated CD-ROMs have entered the "well-to-do", only need equipment, do not need to pay for the copyright, the pirated CD-ROMs can be seen in the profits.
4. Trafficking in illicit salt
Refined iodized salt is collected scientifically from salt wells below 1,000 meters from the earth's surface, and then decontaminated, dried, sterilized, iodized and packaged. It is much simpler to manufacture private salt, which is extracted directly from the sea and lakes, and is more harmful but less costly.
5. Open casinos
How many people's families have been destroyed just because of a "gambling" word. I've only heard of gambling as a way to dispose of a million dollars, but I've never heard of gambling as a way to get rich. Where did all the money go? It all went to the casino owners!
6. Loan sharks
Often collude with the casino, borrow a thousand today, and fifteen tomorrow, that or "acquaintances". Compared with the bank's annual interest rate of more than two percent, the return of loan sharks is much faster and much more.
7. Customs smuggling
Have to say that the smuggling case: Xiamen Yuanhua case, shocking amount of money involved: 70 billion. What else needs to be said? Women and children have figured it out.
8. Hospital number traffickers
Caught and released, released and caught! Now we are not talking about vermin, but hospital number traffickers! What? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. It just so happens that the scam is you, a few dollars of registration fees charge you hundreds. The number of traffickers need just keep lining up, both to save time and earn money!
9. Illegal practice of medicine
No medicine, no equipment, no qualifications, rent a room, buy a table, you can open for business. Such a person, but also claimed to be able to cure all kinds of difficult and complicated diseases, the disease is not cured, the money spent a lot.
10. MLM
To instill in you the legend of earning millions of dollars a year, how many people's wives are separated, friends and relatives away from, but only the achievement of the individual rich.