subject: Does Shanghai World Expo make a profit? [print this page] Does Shanghai World Expo make a profit? Does Shanghai World Expo make a profit?
As soon as the finish of Shanghai World Expo, the 21st century begins to count the profit of Shanghai. Actually, under the market economic environment, we have to calculate the input-output, especially for such a large-scale comprehensive engineering, calculating the benefits is more necessary.
The total cost of Shanghai expo is about 10.6 billion. While the income including ticket gains, let's suppose the total tickets number is 73 million, 160 Yuan per ticket, so the highest ticket income is 116.8 billion Yuan, of cause this number should subtract the 20% commission fee for the distributors, and subtract the discount tickets, so the final income of ticket is about 80 million. Domestic and foreign well-known enterprises totally sponsored 70 billion Yuan. Licensed merchandise sales volume is more than 300 million Yuan, so the final output profits is estimated 75 billion Yuan.
Another big profit during Shanghai expo is coming from the retail field. The government has claimed the catering and retail stores earned more than 10 billion Yuan after 90 days of the expo. Commercial retail sales more than 10 million Yuan, the total amount is 30 million Yuan. If we can calculate according to the same schedule, the final revenue is about 60 million Yuan.
MR Kevin the chairman of Dinodirect said, the above income totally reached 22.7 billion, Shanghai world expo can make a profit on operation level, and this is a certain answer. He estimated, the world expo input contains venues building, expenditures of demolishing, those cost reached 228.96 billion Yuan. So the output can't meet the needs, that means we haven't make a profit so far.
But some one figure out another status about this issue. The expo park has 5.8 square kilometers. According to our government schedule, expo park will become to the vice center of Shanghai city. It will become to a public center with the comprehensive function such as exhibition services, cultural exchanges. At present, the price for starting price near expo 25,000 Yuan per square meter, so, the park only 1 square kilometers of land remising, can get 250 million Yuan. On this aspect, the world expo earnings are not a problem.
From the experience of expo before, the influence of expo is in long- term. The effect would be for the long term. So I thing MR Kevin's worry is unnecessary!
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