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According to Caijing.com, Tianshi Group, a health care direct selling company from Tianjin, took about 6,500 employees on a luxury four-day tour in France from May 6 to 9 to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary.
Immediately after that, the Global Times, citing the Bangkok Post website, reported that from 10 to 20, direct-selling company Infinity (China) organized a tour of Thailand for 12,700 people in batches to reward its employees. The group entered Thailand on 110 flights, for which Thai travel agencies deployed 400 buses and booked 38,000 four- or five-star hotel rooms.
6500 employees, 140 hotels, a total expenditure of 13 million euros, but also in formation on the Côte d'Azur, set the Guinness World Record for the longest human body visible from the air creative word group. Compared with other "tycoon" enterprises, Tianshi in addition to the shocking luxury figures, but also harvested another "honor". Recently, the group's chairman Li Jinyuan was received by French Foreign Minister Fabius. It seems uncommon for an entrepreneur to be received by the French foreign minister alone. So, what kind of specification is it to be received by the French foreign minister?
I used keywords to check the news, and compiled a list of guests of the French foreign minister in recent years. Politicians dominate Fabius' meetings, from Xi to ...... at least an ambassador to France.
Of course, the French foreign minister's busy schedule isn't limited to politicians, as he has also met with Chinese entrepreneurs, but this entrepreneur is Jack Ma, the former richest man in the Ali empire. In comparison, Tianshi, which specializes only in health products, is a thousand miles behind in terms of fame. It is indeed a great honor to be met by the foreign minister. This is also the first time since the 51st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France that the French foreign minister has met with a Chinese entrepreneur alone.
Let's take a step back from the Frenchman's ill-fitting smile.
If you are still for 6500 people airborne group and stunned off the jaw, prove: too young! It is reported that this is not the first time Tianshi Group stunned Europeans, in 2002 Tianshi Group held in Berlin, Germany, Tianshi annual meeting, Tianshi came up with 100 BMW cars, 32 helicopters, 43 yachts and 6 villas, to reward Tianshi's outstanding contributors.
According to the company's official website, since the first international annual meeting of TIANSHI GROUP was held in Moscow, the capital of Russia, in 2000, TIANSHI has so far held its annual meeting in six overseas countries, namely, Russia, Thailand, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya and France. Each annual meeting seems to have become a showpiece for the direct selling company.
In addition to Tianshi, several well-known domestic direct selling companies have created huge tours, the size of which have reached the level of thousands, or even ten thousand people.
On March 14, 2009, 12,000 outstanding marketing staff of Amway Daily Products Limited traveled to the motherland island of Taiwan in 9 batches. The tour group is the largest one ever to the island of Taiwan. Amway group of 10,000 people to travel to Taiwan has become a practice. 2013 March 12, Amway China 10,000 marketing elite to visit Taiwan.
On June 6, 2014, Perfect China Ltd. overseas seminar, a total of 6,000 people group travel to the United States, the scale of a new record since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States since China's single group to travel to the United States of America's largest scale, the largest number of people.
Why are direct selling companies keen on high-profile large-scale collective gatherings? Last year, when People's Daily disclosed that Nu Skin, a direct selling company that has violated the law, had organized 16,000 Chinese employees to travel to Dubai, it critically stated that some direct selling companies are keen on large-scale gatherings, which is nothing more than creating role models and utilizing the group effect to carry out the "brainwashing" of mind control. ".
The China Entrepreneur issued an even more shocking question: Was the African people paying for the 6,000-person luxury European trip of the Tianshi Group? According to the article, Tianshi has branches in West Africa, as well as Uganda, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe in East Africa and other African countries. More than 200,000 Ugandans have joined the Tianshi direct sales force, so perhaps it's fair to say - the people of Africa sponsored this luxury European tour for Tianshi. For most Tiens members, success is out of reach. But Tianshi tells them: the reason for failure is simple: individuals don't work hard enough. But the reality is that failure is not the fault of the individual, it is just a specific business model. This "multi-level marketing" is designed to extract money from the many to satisfy the few and is not sustainable.
Chinese culture and travel critic Tao Yong (pen name Tao Shoufang) commented in the New Beijing News that the trip to France was more like a business trip than a vacation. "It's no secret that the tactics used by direct selling companies," Tao Yong was quoted as saying in the New York Times, "are the most important thing for them to impress people, otherwise they can't keep developing new downlines." Indeed, the business model of direct selling companies relies on getting existing employees to develop more salespeople.
An employee of the company interviewed by the Times in Beijing said that TIANSHI's sales representatives do not receive a base salary, but rather, "the more products they sell, the higher their commission." Thus, hosting a large number of employees in Europe is less of a vacation and more of a way to boost morale and increase their motivation to sell.
