Simply put, it is Caesar and all believers together.

Judging from public reports and comments, it is more of a capital-level combination of words and skills such as the equity structure, the combined market value, and the change of actual controllers. In fact, this is the merger of the two top 20 Chinese tourism groups, which will have a broad and profound impact on the direction of the travel service market and the future of innovation and development of the tourism industry.

In this regard, we can’t just see the game of capital, let alone be a melon-eater, but also think about the impact of this event on the rights and interests of tourists, employee rights and benefits, the outbound market competition, and even the construction of a modern tourism system Deep influence.

The internal mail of the merged party defined the relationship between the two companies before the merger as “competition”, emphasizing that “Alltrust is good at wholesale, and Caesar is good at retail.” Accordingly, the two companies should be located in the wholesale and retail links of the travel service industry chain. In most cases, the relationship between upstream and downstream companies should be cooperation greater than competition.

Major auto sales companies and 4S stores, clothing wholesale markets, and terminal sales points may have inter-industry games in terms of wholesale and sales terminal pricing power, distribution agency power, channel management power, etc., which belong to the influence and discourse under the pattern of interdependence. The struggle for power will not be the same as between wholesalers and retailers.

In fact, the two companies have both wholesale competition and retail competition in the European tourist market for Chinese citizens.In recent years, there has been direct competition between the two parties in terms of resource management and control, product and service innovation in the shopping, small transportation and local life markets. Now that we have merged, I am afraid it will not be as simple as “in the future, we will go together, learn from each other and learn from each other”, but also accept changes in the actual controller and the board of directors, the board of supervisors, the senior management team, as well as professional managers, technical teams and cultural genes. The challenge of restructuring and reengineering must accept the scrutiny of the tourism administration department and the scrutiny of the tourism industry counterparts.

In this sense, whether “A merges with A” or “groups to withdraw money”, they are all just describing the appearance of the capital game in news language, rather than systematically interpreting typical events from the perspective of market rationality and business ecology. We hope to see the merged “Caesars-Zhongxin” system better protect the rights and interests of tourists and bring service quality to a new level.Competition is the norm in the market. The more intense the competition, the greater the pressure on the enterprise. From the perspective of tourists, the fiercer market competition is, the more consumer rights and interests can be protected. This is also the internal reason why every market economy country encourages competition and mobilizes legal, administrative, media and social resources for anti-monopoly. For Chinese citizens traveling to Europe, it may be because the company has turned resources to defend against competition to product development and quality control to enjoy updated products and higher-quality services, or it may be due to the lack of competitors of the same magnitude in the short term. Do not pay a higher price for the same product. We hope to see the former rather than the latter, and we also hope that the merged company will make the company’s strategy more transparent through dialogue and communication at an appropriate time. We hope to see more product development, service upgrades and business model innovations.Travel agencies are a typical form of the tourism industry. They have played a key and active role in the inbound tourism market in the 1980s, the domestic tourism market in the 1990s, and the outbound tourism market in the first two decades of this century. With the maturity of consumption and the advent of the digital age, traditional travel agencies are facing the reality of repositioning. One is to continue to follow the classic business model of “charter flights, charter ships, and hotels, inter-industry wholesale + direct sales, and get the intermediate price difference”. Second, while grasping the source of customers, strengthen cooperation with suppliers of self-financed items such as shopping stores and entertainment performances, and copy the model of “unreasonably low prices, zero negative group fees, rebates, and rebates” in disguise to overseas, and through investment Payment platforms, immigration agencies, and study abroad agencies obtain high non-main business profits. The third is to take the road of “cultural and tourism integration + cross-industry cooperation”, and provide tourists with more quality products and services endorsed by goodwill with an open and transparent business model. In the past few years, Caesars has chosen a third model that is more in line with the development needs of contemporary tourism, and has withstood the test of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, which is what modern enterprises should be.We have reason to believe that the merged “Caesars-Zhongxin” system will inherit Caesar’s business model and carry out business under the sun to the end. The sea is turbulent. For our tourism industry, no matter where the two companies will go in the future after this merger, they will always be the “true heroes” of the year

Illustration. (Source: CNET) WarnerMedia, the company that owns the news channel CNN and TV channel HBO and Discovery media company revealed the company name after the merger will be Warner Bros . Discovery . During a chat hosted by WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on June 1, Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced the company name following the merger of Warner Bros. Discovery for WarnerMedia employees. Last month, US telecommunications giant AT&T announced the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery Media. It is expected that, once established, the new company will be owned by AT&T (with a market value of $230 billion) and Discovery (with a market value of $24 billion). The deal could create a “giant” that can compete with Netflix and Disney+ in the field of live streaming, two companies that have seen the number of account subscribers skyrocket during the pandemic. broadcast. WarnerMedia has net sales of $30.4 billion in 2020, and Discovery, which now owns Eurospor, posted $10.7 billion in net sales in the same period.

Facebook may be fined $ 1.8 million in Israel for “acquiring” 2 companies without permission According to Reuters, Facebook is facing a fine of up to $ 1.8 million for its act of acquiring two Israeli companies, RedKix Inc in 2018 and Service Friend Ltd in 2019 but without approval and violating the law. clause in the Economic Competition Law of Israel. Authorities in the country argue that Facebook has a market share in Israel in excess of 50% and that the group must report transactions and obtain consent before any merger in the country. . The authorities also said that Facebook and Istagram are two exclusive social networks in Israel. Facebook will face a hearing soon and the company will have 60 days to appeal the charges before serving the fine. Talking about this, Facebook has denied allegations of antitrust behavior and said that Facebook is still cooperating with the investigations of the authorities. In addition, Facebook believes that there is no reporting obligation in relation to these transactions and hopes that the competent authorities will come to the right conclusions. Last year, Facebook was also fined by the US federal court up to $5 billion related to data privacy violations and forced Facebook to strengthen privacy protections, provide quarterly report on the implementation of the agreement and the establishment of an independent monitoring board. In Canada, Facebook was also fined $6.5 million by the Competition Bureau for sharing user information with other companies.

Israeli security forces patrol the Citadel in Jerusalem. Documentary photo: AFP / VNA This square is originally a traditional gathering point for Palestinians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In recent days, the city of Jerusalem has seen its worst violence in years, stemming from Israel’s decision to block Palestinians from entering the Damascus Gate after praying. Tensions are heightened after a series of videos posted online showing Arab youths attacking radical orthodox Jews, then violent Jews also went down the street to attack Arabs. On April 22, at least 125 Palestinians were injured in repeated clashes with Israeli police. A police spokesman said the decision to remove the barrier was made by police after consulting with local leaders, religious leaders and assessing the situation. “Our forces are still deployed in the field and it is impossible for the violence to increase,” the official added. Several young Palestinian men have been arrested by police. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 24 called for “restraint on all sides” after several nights of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in its annexed areas in East Jerusalem.

Reporter | Cui Peng Reporter | Cui Peng Two years after Tencent’s “930” reform, the organizational structure and business lines of PCG (Platform and Content Business Group) ushered in the first major adjustment. On April 15, Tencent’s Platform and Content Business Group (PCG) announced a new round of organizational structure and personnel adjustments. In this adjustment, Weishi will formally merge with Tencent Video to form an online video business. The new business implements a dual VP (Vice President) system and is jointly led by Lin Songtao (head of Microvision) and Sun Zhonghuai (head of Tencent Video). Yao Xiaoguang, vice president of Tencent, president of the Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) Tianmei Studio Group, concurrently serves as the person in charge of the platform and content business group (PCG) social platform business, and is in charge of QQ. Liang Zhu, former head of QQ business and current vice president of Tencent, will assume the position of CEO of Tencent Music. In addition, Chen Juhong, vice president of Tencent, currently in charge of media business, will leave, but will remain in Tencent to be responsible for new businesses related to corporate social responsibility. The position of Tencent’s news leader is temporarily vacant. In fact, after the New Year in 2021, news about Tencent PCG’s internal adjustments began to circulate internally. There are also internal rumors that Tencent News will be integrated with Tencent Kandian, and the new business will be jointly led by Zeng Yu, the vice president in charge of PCG technology, and Yin Yu, the head of Kandian. However, due to excessive disagreements, the merger plan between Tencent News and Tencent Kandian was shelved, and the two businesses will only undergo internal adjustments in the near future. The adjustment has been brewing for nearly half a year. An insider from Tencent News told Jiemian News that as early as the end of last year, Chen Juhong was preparing for the handover work, but no one has taken over his position.

Not only that, Tencent Sports will also optimize some teams and management personnel, and the general manager of operations Zhao Guochen will be transferred to other businesses.

Some internal officials in Tencent told Jiemian News that Ren Yuxin (currently the COO of Tencent Group) is determined to advance this reform. The adjustment involves many businesses and teams, and it is very troublesome to sort out, but “Mark (Ren Yuxin) has a strong ability to act” .

Strengthen the senior management binding mechanism

After Tencent’s “930” major adjustment in 2018, Ren Yuxin established a senior management partner system within PCG. All 8 corporate-level VPs (Vice Presidents) responsible for specific businesses were included, and the assessment and incentive mechanisms were uniformly adjusted to jointly undertake PCG performance. .

Regarding this system, Ren Yuxin’s original words are “to do well to share benefits, not to do well to share responsibilities”, which aims to emphasize the cooperation between VPs. However, in the follow-up actual implementation level, there are still some organizational walls and the phenomenon of fighting alone in each business line.

According to Jiemian News, before the National Day last year, in a voting activity involving more than 250 employees within PCG, there were more than 200 employees who chose “no” and “don’t know” regarding the question of whether there was a “group spirit” in PCG. To a certain extent, this reflects the barriers that exist at the grassroots level.

After this adjustment, PCG’s management style will shift from VP cooperation to emphasizing VP binding, further strengthening the joint advancement and retreat of various business lines within the business group.

Combining with Tencent’s past internal integration history of the business, this integration also implies internal horse racing, and the winning business and leadership may go further within Tencent.

Video number upper position

In this adjustment, the short video business involved is also worthy of attention.

The video account was developed by Tencent’s WXG (WeChat business group) in 2019 when a special team was formed. The early team was very small, with only ten or twenty members. However, the data of the video account is growing very fast. In 2020, the DAU will exceed 200 million. Correspondingly, the DAU of Weishi was only 40 million at that time.

This has caused a lot of discussion within PCG. Some employees raised questions at the internal sharing event for the second anniversary of PCG. As Tencent’s company-level trump card in the short video track, how Microvision will continue to move forward in the future.

Lin Songtao, vice president of Tencent, who is in charge of Weishi, gave a detailed response at the scene and spoke for longer than the prescribed time. Ren Yuxin immediately said that “microvision is worth more time” and encouraged him to elaborate on all the points.

At the end of last year, Weishi announced that it would invest 1 billion yuan to support the micro drama business, indicating that it will focus on this business this year. In Tencent’s 2020 financial report, Weishi’s achievements in the “micro drama” business are also highlighted. In previous Tencent financial reports, this type of small-scale new business was rarely described separately.

According to Jiemian News, regarding the direction and business division after the merger, Weishi has recently completed interviews with middle-level cadres.

The merger of Weishi and Video also means that in the short video track, the video account will take on more important responsibilities, as well as the strategic demands from the group’s senior management.

The North Branch will continue to adjust

The adjustment of the content team of Tencent North Branch has been going on for many years.

As early as 2017, during the high-level adjustments, Liu Shengyi, a member of the general office in charge of OMG (online media business group), was transferred to the chairman of Tencent Advertising Alliance until he completely withdrew from the Tencent General Office this year and became a senior management consultant.

The VP of Tencent News, Information Flow, and Tencent Video began to report directly to Ren Yuxin, who is in charge of MIG (Mobile Internet Business Group) and IEG (Interactive Entertainment Business Group).

After the establishment of PCG, Ren Yuxin focused internally on promoting the construction of two major middle stations, content middle stations and technical middle stations, to provide support for front-end business.

After more than two years of development, the integrated front-end content business has become executable at the operational level. However, in this PCG announcement, there is no mention of a plan to integrate information flow and news services. The two businesses may continue to adjust in the future.

Subject to the impact of the macro environment, the revenue of media advertising with Tencent Video and Tencent News as the main carriers has shown a downward trend year by year. Tencent’s latest financial report data shows that in 2020, Tencent’s media advertising revenue will decrease by 8% year-on-year.

Chen Juhong once wrote an article “Leaving” to record his “golden days” in Nanfang Newspaper Group. After his departure, Tencent’s reforms on the media content side will continue.

The news department is the brand image business that Tencent hopes to retain. In the future, as the PCG reform is further deepened, the news team and the information flow team will have more collisions between content and algorithm recommendations, which is a problem that Tencent news leaders will need to face in the future.

Defense Minister of Ukraine Andrii Taran. Source: Anadolu

Speaking to the defense subcommittee of the European Parliament in Brussels, Minister Taran warned that Moscow could attack Ukraine to secure water supplies for the annexed Crimean peninsula.

Besides, Mr. Tahan said, does not rule out the possibility that Russian forces in Crimea could “carry out major military provocations” in 2021, but he did not provide immediate evidence for this hypothesis.

Regarding developments, on the same day, the SBU national security agency of Ukraine announced that it was conducting a large-scale “anti-terror” exercise in the Kherson region near Crimea. SBU’s announcement said units of the Ukrainian armed forces together with police and border guards participated in the exercise.

The announcement emphasized: “The key strategic targets of key infrastructure in the Kherson region are being tightly controlled … These are seaport areas, power supply facilities, airports, demand and gas production plants “.

Earlier, the Ukrainian military posted a video, on a rock music scene, showing the country’s tanks deployed in formation with soldiers loaded and fired for artillery during a pushback drill. the attack of tanks and infantry infiltrated the defensive area near the Crimea border.

The drill comes a day after US President Joe Biden telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Russian troop reinforcement in Crimea and near eastern Ukraine, among other US concerns.

Quang Ha town, Hai Ha district, increasingly spacious and modern.

Quang Ha town is the political, economic, cultural – social center of Hai Ha district, located on the traffic route connecting Ha Long with Mong Cai, which is identified as one of two “breakthrough points. breaking an important “socio-economic development” of Quang Ninh province with the orientation of becoming an economic, commercial, industrial, tourism, service and seaport center of the Northern midland and mountainous region, of the coastal economic belt in the Gulf of Tonkin and the focal point of the Vietnam-China economic corridor, playing a role in promoting the economy of the whole district.

More than 10 years ago, Quang Ha town was only a small scale with 5 streets, walking around for a dozen minutes, the end of the town. But so far, Quang Ha has completely changed with the formation of a series of urban areas and residential areas. Especially, in early 2020, Hai Ha will merge Quang Dien, Quang Trung, Phu Hai communes into the town with the total natural area of ​​the town after the merger is 26,02km2, with a population of 14,815 people. This meets the need for urban expansion in the district.

The urban traffic routes of Quang Ha town have been expanded.

Not up to this point, but over the years, the district has focused on investment and urban upgrading. Up to now, the urban infrastructure of Quang Ha town has basically been completed. Most of the townspeople have houses with an average floor area of ​​32.2m2 / person. The traffic roads are invested, widened, spacious, clean and beautiful. All main streets in urban areas of the district have lighting equipment at night. The town has a square, green park, theater, cultural house … to meet the needs of entertainment, culture, arts, sports and sports of the people. The investment in medical and educational establishments is spacious and modern. The entire town is covered with mobile communication.

The people of Quang Ha town clean and clean the river bank that runs through the town.

Quang Ha town’s environment is focused by the people. Hazardous wastes are collected and treated in accordance with regulations; 95% of solid waste, domestic waste in urban areas is collected and treated. The water supply and drainage system is also invested quite fully, currently nearly 90% of the population in the urban area of ​​the district is supplied with clean water for daily life. In particular, the people of the town are always actively cleaning and cleaning the environment of the neighborhood, river embankment … Volunteer groups also donate to renovate the landscape of the river embankment around the town, plant trees. green … create a clean, beautiful environment.

The members of the group “Ha Co old definition” donated money and labor to plant the giant pine tree, to clean and embellish the area of ​​the embankment of the Ha Coi River running through the town. Photo: Le Thanh (Old group of Ha Coi)

Although merging 3 communes into the town, but shifting the economic structure of the town quite quickly towards increasing the proportion of commerce, service, industry and construction; reduce the proportion of agriculture. The rate of non-agricultural workers in inner-city areas reaches 89.5%. This has contributed to increase the town’s budget revenue in 2020 to above VND 863 billion, while the town’s budget expenditure is at a lower level. That helps to balance the town’s budget revenues and expenditures quite well.

The quality of life of the townspeople has been improved; Average income in 2020 of Quang Ha town will reach 2,822 USD / person. The urban appearance in Quang Ha has undergone significant changes. Currently, the poverty rate of the expanded Quang Ha town is only 0.97%.

Compared with the standards of grade-IV urban centers, Quang Ha town basically meets all the necessary conditions. Currently, the district continues to invest in town infrastructure to be recognized as a Grade IV urban center in the shortest time; at the same time, reaching the criteria of grade-III urban infrastructure by 2025.