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WIC Template 1 Talking Point 5 Week in 60 Seconds 6 Economy Week in China 9 Property 10 China and the World 11 Chinese Character 13 Environment 31 August 2012 14 Society and Culture Issue 162 18 And Finally www.weekinchina.com 19 The Back Page Heading for the rocks? m o c . n i e t s p e a t i n e b . w w w Shipwreck: why Zhang Zhirong’s firm faces trouble Brought to you by Week in China Talking Point 31 August 2012 Far from shipshape Insider trading scandal signals more pain for troubled shipyard Rongsheng or a company at the centre of an Finsider trading investigation, Well Advantage seems an apt name. The Hong Kong firm has caused some embarrassment for its owner, tycoon Zhang Zhirong. It is accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of being part of a group of traders that used privi - leged information to buy stock in Canadian oil and gas company Nexen. The SEC notes that company insiders seem to have bought shares just days before Chinese oil major CNOOC announced a $15.1 billion In the red? Rongsheng’s shipyard in Nantong takeover bid. There was an immedi - ate $13 million gain in value from tions. Is heavily indebted Rong - Moreover, Rongsheng would have the spike triggered by CNOOC’s bid. sheng heading for the rocks? Can he fallen into the red were it not for a The SEC likewise noted that bounce back from the SEC allega - government subsidy. Zhang is also the controlling share - tions or will they hurt his firm’s Demand has collapsed. The holder at Rongsheng Heavy Indus - business dealings with CNOOC? Shanghai Daily points out that in tries, a company that has Could the scandal even derail the first half of 2012 Rongsheng re - “significant business activities” CNOOC’s attempt to buy Nexen? ceived orders to build just two ships with CNOOC. Rongsheng’s problems seem to (versus 24 a year earlier) “as global The SEC’s announcement proved extend over a wide area, but our overcapacity deters shipowners costly for the Jiangsu businessman. starting point is the calamitous from adding ships”. Those two or - The day after the news emerged, state of China’s shipyards. ders were worth just $55.6 million shares in Zhang’s listed companies versus $1.08 billion of business in nosedived in Hong Kong. Rong - An industry all at sea? the prior period, reports Reuters. sheng Heavy Industries, China’s The shipping slowdown won’t be The reduction in demand is lead - largest private sector shipbuilder, news to regular readers of WiC: we ing to cutthroat competition too, as slumped 16.4%. His property devel - last mentioned the “perfect storm” local shipbuilders fight to win the oper Glorious Property Holdings facing the industry in February (see limited order book on offer. South shed 10.6%. WiC137). The Financial Times has Weekend spoke to one industry The scandal comes at a terrible since called it the “worst shipping player who cited a recent bidding time for Rongsheng, a company al - downturn in 25 years”. war for a container ship contract in ready suffering from a global slow - Rongsheng’s first half results which the price dropped to $25 mil - down in demand for new ships. showed that it is feeling the pain lion – a level where the yard will Making a bad PR week worse, Rong - too. The shipbuilder announced make a paltry profit. sheng subsequently delivered a that profits fell 82% in the first six dismal set of first half results and months of 2012, versus the same pe - Zhang’s voyage into troubled wa - P h o t o spooked investor confidence fur - riod in the previous year. That ters... S o u r ther by backing out of a planned meant it barely stayed in the black, Zhang Zhirong is a native of Jiangsu, c e : R e acquisition. with net income registering just one of China’s more entrepreneurial u t e r s Zhang now faces a series of ques - Rmb215 million ($33.8 million). provinces. His rise has been nothing 1 Week in China Talking Point 31 August 2012 if not rapid: still in his early forties, Zhang was ranked by Forbes as China’s 22nd richest person in 2011, with a net worth of $3 billion. He made his original fortune in real estate, primarily in Shanghai. But in 2003 he was made aware that China’s leadership wanted to see local firms take on a more domi - nant role in shipbuilding. Keen to diversify, Zhang posited that ships were like ‘offshore real estate’, says South Weekend. He decided to enter the industry, despite lacking any prior experience. Zhang rectified some of this shortfall by recruiting one of China’s most experienced shipping executives, Chen Qiang. He also had the advantage of a close relation - ship with the local government in his hometown of Rugao, part of Nantong City. He struck up a close rapport with Rugao’s Party secre - tary Chen Huijuan, persuading her that shipbuilding was a great devel - opment opportunity. Locally they became known as the ‘Three Musketeers’ as the trio sought to build China’s biggest shipmaker from scratch. Crucially, the local government official was able to secure a prime spot for the yard on Changqingsha Island, near the Yangtze River (such an impor - tant location that it required State Council approval). The Rugao gov - ernment also gave the fledgling firm subsidies and lobbied banks to provide competitive loans (since 2008 Rongsheng has been offered credit lines worth Rmb200 billion, or roughly $31.5 billion). A Hong Kong IPO in 2010 also helped to boost growth. Key clients such as Brazil’s Vale were landed, and by 2011 Zhang was boasting that Rongsheng was China’s top-ranked shipyard by new orders. Even as the Baltic Dry Index plunged, Zhang’s manner was con - fident, telling Nantong’s deputy 2 Week in China Talking Point 31 August 2012 mayor last October that “Rongsheng is leaping towards becoming one of the global shipbuilding leaders”. Planet China Strange but true stories from the new China Not waving, but drowning? Rongsheng’s CEO Chen Qiang was PULL THE UDDER ONE. Beauty pageants can sometimes be controversial in China. But officials from Shanyin County in Shanxi province notably less ebullient. He’d earlier probably had little idea that they would spark a backlash when they came admitted that hardly any orders had up with their own pageant idea. In Shanyin’s case, the goal was to find the been obtained in the most recent ‘most beautiful cow’, a move designed to promote the local dairy industry. fiscal quarter and that profit warn - Judges selected 30 of the most charming cows in the county (from 100,000 ings were likely. unknowing contenders, apparently) and then showcased them at the Aside from the general deterio - contest. However, it wasn’t just the cows on display. Perhaps to make the ration in industry conditions, Chen pageant a little more visually interesting, the officials arranged for bikini- was soon having to deal with oper - clad milkmaids. Shanghai Daily reports that this angered many of Shanyin’s ational concerns too. In March high-minded villagers who said the event was ‘promoting vulgarity’. As Rongsheng was forced to dismiss usual, the debate went viral on the internet, with one microblogger safety concerns over the huge Vale - commenting: “If they were aiming to select the most beautiful cow, why did max vessels – a new breed of dry they hire models? I don’t think it’s good for children to watch.” One model told reporters she’d been hired to represent the harmony of humans and bulk carrier – that it has been build - nature. And the county head stood by his bikini strategy: “We want to ing for iron ore giant Vale. This promote the local dairy industry to let more people drink safe milk.” came after Chinese transport offi - cials referred to the “hidden dan - gers” of these colossal 360-metre the media now wonders if that to Rmb8.02 per share. ships. To the chagrin of their Brazil - tried-and-tested route is still open. The deal’s collapse is being ian owners, the Valemax ships have In June Chen Huijuan resigned as taken as further evidence of Rong - been barred from docking in Chi - Rugao’s Party secretary. South sheng’s constrained cashflow. But nese ports. Weekend muses: “Whether Zhang minority investors in the target The row has left Rongsheng with Zhirong and Rongsheng will still ob - company are furious. According to a headache too. It won orders from tain the powerful support of the the Economic Observer, they have Vale to build 16 Valemaxes worth a government remains unknown.” applied to the CSRC, China’s stock total of $2.1 billion. But the Brazilian market regulator, to take legal ac - firm is now reluctant to take deliv - Any more bad news? tion over the debacle. ery of ships that it cannot unload in The failed acquisition of Anhui Indeed, after the Nexen insider China – the destination for which Quanchai Engine could prove an - trading case and the botched bid for they have been designed. For in - other setback for Zhang. Last year Quanchai Engine, the 21CN Business stance, Rongsheng completed the Rongsheng agreed to acquire the Herald has concluded that the ship - 380,000- tonne carrier ‘Vale Hebei’ Quanjiao local government’s 44.5% builder “is facing an unprecedented in February but Vale has yet to ac - stake in the diesel engine maker and crisis of credibility”.
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