Phoenix Satellite TV reports personnel earthquake, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and CCTV executives will airborne Liu Changle and withdraw

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Written by: Li Ting, Jiang Gengyu, Lao Xianliang

2021-02-09 17:00

The last update date: 2021-02-09 17:09

The Phoenix Satellite TV, which is headquartered in Hong Kong, reported a major personnel earthquake, and the alleged chairman and general manager have changed.

Rumors have it that this wave of personnel adjustments is related to the Phoenix Financial Thunderstorm, which involved as many as 70,000 victims and involved nearly tens of billions of yuan, which led to Beijing's rectification.

An employee of the news department of Phoenix Satellite TV confirmed to the reporter of "Hong Kong 01" that there will be changes in high-level personnel, and news has been circulating within the company, but there is no internal announcement.

The employees also said that when the company held its annual meeting on February 1, the newly hired management had already met with the senior staff, but the company's middle-level and lower personnel were temporarily unaware.

The reporter asked Phoenix Satellite TV's public relations department, but as of 4 p.m., there was no reply. Several Phoenix Satellite TV employees said that they were unaware of the changes in senior personnel.

According to news from the mainland network yesterday (8th), Beijing has taken an effort to rectify the situation, and the senior officials of Phoenix Satellite TV have been replaced.

According to reports, Xu Wei, secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, became the chairman of Phoenix Satellite TV, and Sun Yusheng, the deputy director of CCTV, took over as the general manager of Phoenix Satellite TV. The Liu Changle family retired from Phoenix.

Xu Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, is a reporter and has been in charge of the propaganda department in Shanghai for a long time. He was the director of the Shanghai Municipal Government Information Office.

Sun Yusheng is also a reporter and has worked for CCTV for a long time.

Internet news also stated that Phoenix employees had not paid any food for 3 months.

It was reported on the Internet that Phoenix employees had not paid any food for three months, but many Phoenix employees denied it.

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A Phoenix TV news department employee confirmed the personnel changes to "Hong Kong 01": Phoenix held its annual video conference in Beijing and Hong Kong on February 1. Xu Wei, secretary of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, who will take over as Phoenix chairman, and will take over as president The manager’s former deputy director of CCTV, Sun Yusheng, attended meetings in Beijing and Hong Kong respectively. The new management has met with the company’s senior management, but has not officially announced to all employees.

In addition, at least three Hong Kong employees of Phoenix TV, including news anchors, production department and new media platform staff, and one employee of Beijing Phoenix.com (a subsidiary of Phoenix Satellite TV Group) all stated to "Hong Kong 01" that the company's salary is still paid normally; but They all expressed ignorance of the news of personnel changes.

The picture shows the live news program of Phoenix Satellite TV.

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Since Phoenix is ​​a listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the reorganization of the board of directors needs to issue a listed company notice, which has not been announced as of today (9th).

A reporter from "Hong Kong 01" checked the company registry information and found that Phoenix still had no director changes.

There are rumors that this wave of personnel adjustments is related to the Phoenix Financial mine explosion case. According to the WeChat public account "Crow Difficult Friends Home", in recent years, under Beijing's support for inclusive finance and "Internet +", many people have believed in Phoenix Satellite TV. , Lend the funds to Phoenix Finance, and they will lend to those who need the funds, and get a low interest rate.

The holder of the official account stated that he is also one of the lenders of Phoenix Finance.

Allegedly, on September 11, 2020, Phoenix Finance suddenly stopped online lending products without any public notice or notice.

On September 30, Phoenix Financial issued a statement in response to outsiders' speculation that it stopped the online lending business because of "the payment of some products was not timely."

On November 5 of the same year, Phoenix Financial issued a public notice again, stating that it would "protect the rights of lending users to the greatest extent possible" and "is developing a variety of exit channels to help lending users carry out exit work."

Tens of thousands of lenders from Phoenix Finance rushed to defend their rights:

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By January 15, 2021, Phoenix Financial has launched three "Emergency and Early Exit Channels for Lenders."

The above public account disclosed that the first is the emergency exit channel in case of serious illness and extreme difficulty, but the dedicated line cannot be reached or no one answers; the second is the emergency fund exit channel, allowing the fund management company to purchase unexpired or overdue credits of lending users, but this For this kind of purchase, the lender had to set the bid, and some people filled in the 30% discount and failed to complete the transaction; third, the creditor's rights redemption mall, that is, the creditor's rights mall was introduced to allow the lender to use the creditor's rights to purchase home appliances, grain, oil, rice, and daily necessities.

In the past few months, the lender has repeatedly negotiated with the person in charge of the platform, repeatedly complained on Weibo and black cat complaints, and even surrounded the office building, and has not seen the repayment plan for a long time.

It is said that as of October 2020, there are 70,400 existing users of the Phoenix financial platform, all over China, and the outstanding loan balance is about 9.8 billion yuan.

Phoenix Satellite TV was launched in Hong Kong in March 1996. The founder and chairman of the board of directors is Liu Changle, a former PLA officer.

The company was listed on the Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market on June 30, 2000.

In August 2014, Phoenix Finance was incorporated in Beijing, and Liu Changle’s son-in-law He Xin served as the chairman and CEO of Phoenix Finance.

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