Energy: There's a reason for topping the profiteering list.

Keywords: coal boss, oil shortage, collusion between government and coal

Mr. Wang in Beijing has developed a new habit of driving now. When he saw the red light coming from a distance, he slipped in the gap. He didn't do this before, but he did it because the gap can save fuel. The soaring oil price forced him to consider reducing the frequency of refueling.

Generally, 2005, which is closely related to energy, is related to profiteering or price increase. The rising prices of oil and coal, as well as the large-scale "power shortage" staged every year, have caused the electricity consumption of Beijing residents to rise from 0.44 yuan to 0.48 yuan.

We can hear about mine accidents in large and small coal mines almost every other day. Behind the repeated collusion between government and coal is the support of profiteering.

Another new force in this year's rich list is the coal mine owner from Tangshan or Shanxi, an energy-producing area. Although there are all kinds of news that China's electricity supply exceeded demand in, this does not affect our determination to rank energy as the first in the profiteering list.

No matter whether the energy industry can fade out of the era of profiteering one day, 2005 alone will definitely be bullish all the way.

Medicine and medical care: when will the reform succeed?

Key words: 5 million medical expenses, failure of iron and blood medical reform, traffickers

At the end of 2003, a director of the National Development and Reform Commission was invited to attend a seminar in the pharmaceutical industry. When the director stood on the podium and asked everyone, "Do you want to hear the truth?" After getting the expected answer, the director asked all the reporters present to turn off the interview machine. In the next half hour, all you can hear is complaints and complaints, which are contradictions and disharmonies between various departments. Strangely, after this meeting, no reporter reported this matter. The reason for not reporting is simple. Everyone feels that confidence is lost and there is no hope. A year later, when the official announced that the medical reform had failed, people were already calm.

According to the ratio of drug retail price to production cost, the retail price of many drugs is more than three times the production cost, so it seems reasonable to include drugs in the profiteering industry. The high drug price is virtual for pharmaceutical companies, and most of the price difference is not included in the profit account of the production enterprise. According to the investigation of relevant personnel, at present, the profit of enterprises from factories to consumers is only about 15%, and the rest is in the circulation field, and most of them fall to hospitals. This phenomenon is called high drug prices. How high is the drug price? Let's take a look at the sales of "affordable drugs". In Renmin Yuan Pharmacy in Hefei, the average price of drugs was reduced by 45%, and the pharmacy was still profitable.

This is a daily - happened thing. When the legitimate interests are not guaranteed, the interests will lurk forward in a roundabout way, and the amount is even greater than that obtained in a proper way. When local governments made up their minds to give up financial support for most hospitals and reduce financial support for a few hospitals a few years ago, the so-called "profiteering" was justified in the industry.

Primary and secondary education: immoral high profit rate

Keywords: school choice fee, compulsory education is free.

Recently, the incident of deducting students' food expenses from No.6 Middle School in Guiyang County, Hunan Province once again focused people's attention on the education industry. In three and a half years, students' food expenses were deducted by nearly one million. Most of the food expenses are appropriated or shared by the school. Students basically eat boiled bean dregs under the skin for every meal, and three meals a day can't meet the standard of 3 yuan money. (According to China Youth Daily reported on February 7, 65438+)

According to conservative calculations by some education experts, the unreasonable charges for education in 10 stole more than 200 billion yuan from the pockets of primary and secondary school students.

The windfall of primary and secondary education is the last thing we want to see. Primary and secondary education should belong to public welfare undertakings. In China, schools are fully funded institutions. Since it is a non-profit organization, it should not be for profit. However, primary and secondary education is not only making money, but also a profiteering industry. Some people think that it is a national shame for education to become a profiteering industry. The huge profits in this industry come from arbitrary charges. Indiscriminate charges for education are essentially "seeking personal gain from public interests".

Beijing is probably the most serious area for choosing schools. It is said that the normal school selection fee is 30,000 yuan, but many first-class schools seriously exceed the standard, reaching 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, and some even reach 60,000 to 70,000 yuan. There are 79 1 middle schools in Beijing, including more than 200 schools, accounting for about one third. According to comprehensive calculation, the annual income of middle school students in the city is more than 654.38 billion yuan, which is only a conservative estimate. According to preliminary statistics, at least 20 middle schools in Beijing earn more than10 million, which can be regarded as pure profits. In another big city, Shanghai, the government expressly stipulates that the maximum (one-time) school selection fee for boarding high schools and municipal key high schools is 40,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan respectively. As for the use of these fees, in Beijing, the school selection fee for senior high schools is not paid, and the school selection fee for junior high schools is usually kept at 70% to 75%, and the remaining 25% to 30% is allocated by the Education Bureau to the three types of schools with weak teachers, so as to improve the teachers' strength and teaching level of the three types of schools.

In China, children's money is always so easy to earn. Children's education has become the biggest consumption expenditure of many families. In addition to primary and secondary education, even the profits of kindergartens are abnormally high. Some parents complain that primary and secondary school students are more expensive than college students. We hope that in China, children can enjoy national education as much as possible, and we hope to spend less money, or all the money spent can be used to improve children's education.

Funeral: The profit cannot be calculated.

Keywords: clearly marked price

According to the survey, many funeral services and funeral supplies operators do not clearly mark prices, and the phenomenon of asking for exorbitant prices is common. Mr. Li of Jinan Luohe Community Funeral Supplies Store said: "Now the funeral supplies are all at this price. Everyone wants a high price, so I can't sell it at a low price. And many people think that the more expensive it is, the more respect it is for the deceased. People are not willing to buy! "

This is an industry that no one dares to mention. But everyone has to face them sometimes. The biggest news about this industry is that it is very high on the list of profiteering industries over the years.

Why is there such a big profit margin? China people are a country that respects filial piety. After the death of a loved one, many people are willing to send their loved ones away in the final farewell process. This encourages the industry's habit of charging exorbitant prices.

An urn with a cost of only a few tens of yuan can be sold for three or four thousand yuan or more. When a relative dies, it often costs tens of thousands of yuan. Under normal circumstances, the profit of the funeral industry can generally be guaranteed at around 300%, even reaching 1000% or even 2000%.

Publication of teaching materials: Please give a chance to choose teaching materials.

Keywords: textbooks, Xinhua Bookstore

In July this year, Xinhua News Agency published an article, "How deep is the water behind the fall of a large number of officials", which threw out the corruption chain of the publishing industry.

Gao, the former manager of Xinhua Bookstore in Linxian County, Shanxi Province, embezzled more than 7 million yuan of public funds and was sentenced to death by the Lvliang Intermediate People's Court, with a two-year suspension; Hou Fukang, former director of the distribution center of teaching materials for Xinhua Bookstore in Guizhou Province and former deputy director of the service center of Guizhou Press and Publication Bureau, took bribes of more than 4.7 million yuan. At the end of 2004, Guiyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hou Fukang to life imprisonment for accepting bribes and corruption. Liu Che, former manager of finance department and director of audit department of Hunan Xinhua Bookstore, embezzled10 million yuan in stock trading, almost losing all his money, resulting in direct economic loss 1 1.74 million yuan. In early 2004, Liu Che was sentenced to death. So many officials have been caught in the news one after another, which shows that publishers like Xinhua Bookstore have inevitably become the hardest hit areas of corruption, which is closely related to the long-term monopoly of textbook distribution and huge discounts and kickbacks.

The rich profits of the textbook publishing industry are mainly related to the highly administrative monopoly system of textbook publishing and distribution that has been implemented in China-the monopoly of editing and editing by the education administrative department, the monopoly of publishing by the education publishing house and the monopoly of Xinhua Bookstore. Mr. Ma, general manager of China Education Network and executive director of China Educators Association, believes that the publication and distribution of textbooks for primary and secondary schools in China has always been carried out in accordance with the monopoly management mechanism of publishing houses designated by publishing management departments and Xinhua Bookstore, and the textbook industry is basically a monopoly industry. Although China began to reform the distribution of textbooks in primary and secondary schools in 2002, introducing a competitive mechanism and no longer relying solely on Xinhua Bookstore, the monopoly of Xinhua Bookstore is still difficult to break in the short term. Textbooks have been the "profitable cows" of Xinhua Bookstore at all levels for several years. According to expert analysis, at present, more than 70% of the profits of Xinhua Bookstore in most provinces depend on the distribution of teaching materials, and in many grassroots Xinhua Bookstores, the proportion is as high as 90%. According to the statistics of the General Administration of Press and Publication, there are 6.87 billion copies of books 170962 published nationwide, with a total price of 535120,000 yuan, while there are 8,260 kinds of textbooks for primary and secondary schools, with a total print run of 331240,000 copies and a total price of154.98 million yuan, which only accounts for books.

Expressway: Behind the Fall of Traffic Commissioner.

Keywords: Bi Yuxi, Communications Department

The huge profits of the transportation industry can be clearly reflected from typical cases and strange phenomena. On March 16 this year, Bi Yuxi, former deputy director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Transportation, was sentenced to death with a suspended execution for accepting bribes and privately dividing state-owned assets. He became the17th director of communications department in China since 1997. This long list of directors has also become the first choice for the China part of the 2005 Global Corruption Report just released by Transparency International, an internationally renowned anti-corruption organization.

The phenomenon of "the road is open to traffic, and the director falls off the horse" has become a major feature in the field of anti-corruption in China, and even a rare phenomenon of "corruption" of three traffic directors in Henan Province has appeared. The transportation system has become the "hardest hit by corruption", and the huge profits of the transportation industry, including expressway, are hard to blame.

According to CCTV reports, the monthly salary of an ordinary toll collector in expressway, Jiangsu Province is more than 8,000 yuan, and some even exceed 1000 yuan, which shows to what extent the profiteering of this industry has risen. And expressway has a huge cash flow. Take Fujian Expressway as an example, its operating cash flow per share is as high as 0.68 yuan, which is higher than any other industry in China. Therefore, expressway industry is figuratively compared to a high-speed printing machine.

The profiteering of expressway industry led to the commercialization of expressway industry, and the commercialization of expressway also complemented each other, which continued to promote its profit growth. Take Beijing Capital Airport Expressway as an example. In the first half of 2005, the traffic volume of expressway in Beijing Capital Airport increased by 10.68%, and the turnover increased by 9.7%. As can be seen from this data, the traffic volume in expressway is still growing rapidly, and the huge profits in expressway will continue to be further maintained.

Cable TV: the most enterprising industry

Key sectors: price increases

"So many families and so many TVs are paying for a company." An expert who has long been concerned about the development of cable TV said so. After the adjustment of the subscription fee, a city in Beijing will bring 654.38+0.4 billion yuan of new income to gehuayouxian every year. This industry can be summarized in one sentence: it is all caused by monopoly. /kloc-Beijing, with a population of more than 0/0 million, is so big that there is only one cable TV network operator, which can be called a monopoly enterprise among monopoly enterprises.

Although the subscription fee of cable TV is rising, the service quality of cable TV has not followed suit. Some analysts said: "China Cable TV, which is monopolized by cable TV operation rights, is the most enterprising industry in China. There seems to be no other way to increase one's income except to raise TV fees wave after wave. Abroad, developed countries have seen the amazing resource potential of cable TV networks. Cable TV network can be used not only for watching cable TV, but also for surfing the Internet and making phone calls. They can fully integrate the three networks, which can not only greatly reduce the waste of resources, but also greatly reduce the expenses of users. " In fact, in an industry that can reap huge profits without competitive pressure at all, it is no wonder that there is no motivation to make progress!

Real estate: the house has become a kind of futures.

Keywords: futures, monopoly

Now the real estate, in fact, has long been not directly related to the needs of buyers, and the house has long been out of the economic category for developers. The real estate market is similar to the futures market.

According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, from June 5438 to August this year, the average selling price of commercial housing nationwide was 2996 yuan/square meter, which was 18.7% higher than the price of 2525 yuan/square meter last year. Real estate development has also maintained a relatively fast growth rate. 10-August 65438, the national real estate development investment was more than 890 billion yuan, up more than 20% year-on-year.

The common people's dream of housing is still plum blossoms to quench their thirst. Why is it so difficult to bring down the house price? If only real estate developers stand on the opposite side of the new housing reform policy, then the implementation of the new housing reform policy is too simple and easy. The problem is that there are banks and government departments in charge of industries (not just local government departments) standing next to real estate developers. This is a very powerful group army. So, it's hard to say who wins and who loses.

There are a large number of real estate enterprises in China. Although there is no monopoly, there is a monopoly. The reason is that no matter how many developers are, they show extremely uniform behavior in front of buyers, as if they are the same company: every time the price rises, this property rises, that property rises, this city rises, that city rises, and house prices keep rising. The price increase behavior of real estate seems to be the same as that of a virtual head office.

Some scholars have analyzed that real estate developers get rich in a short time, not by normal market competition, nor by individual market ability and market wisdom, but by using government power to plunder the land resources of urban vulnerable groups and farmers. In my opinion, this road shows the essence of real estate developers getting rich: under the banner of the market, selling the market price, but enjoying the preferential plan.

Online games: free but still profiteering.

Keywords: Chen Tianqiao, Internet cafe

1October 28th,165438+"The Legend of Mir, Free Forever" jumped into the player's eyes, but he didn't feel the slightest excitement. "It's not what it used to be. Compared with my investment of several thousand yuan in' Legend' every month, it's really nothing to avoid the monthly card fee of 35 yuan! "

The Legend of mir has been on the air for three years, pushing Shanda boss Chen Tianqiao to the top of Hurun China's rich list. "World of Warcraft" appeared in just a few months, which made Ninetowns turn losses into profits. According to the data of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by the end of April 2005, the number of Internet users in China had exceeded 65,438+billion, ranking second in the world after the United States. Among them, there are nearly 20 million online game players, and such a huge number is the most solid foundation for online game profit. It is precisely because of this that after earning a lot of money from online games, Shanda did not hesitate to spend money to buy the "free" of Legend in order to regain popularity.

According to industry insiders, the gross profit margin of online games industry is as high as 50% or above, the highest even reaches 75%, and the net interest rate is also between 25% and 50%. The main reason is that, on the one hand, manufacturers only need to maintain and upgrade online games, and do not need factories, warehouses and manufacturing, which greatly saves costs. On the other hand, because the game code is stored in a server with high security factor and managed by a professional organization, compared with other products, especially stand-alone games, online games greatly reduce the external replicability-piracy. Therefore, major game manufacturers are rushing.

Beauty and plastic surgery: money is behind beauty

Keywords: Shi Sanba, Korean cosmetic surgery

Shi Sanba, a well-known plastic surgeon in Beijing, has done countless plastic surgery for others, but she still refuses to move her nose. In her view, this is a symbol of wealth. Her big nose and the increasingly rich wealth brought by the cosmetic industry really complement each other. This ordinary woman who had to think twice when buying kebabs for her son is now a successful woman with both fame and fortune.

In Shi Sanba's shop, the reporter also saw a series of huge plastic surgery expenses: grinding the mandibular angle 28,000 yuan, filling the temple18,000 yuan, cutting the lower lip10,000 yuan, and rhinoplasty 5500-28,000 yuan ... The beautician glanced at the reporter's face neatly. This operation with a total value of hundreds of thousands can be completed in just a few hours, not to mention some minor operations such as rhinoplasty. A beautiful nose can be completed in three minutes, but the cost is nearly ten thousand yuan. Later, the beautician proudly told reporters that at least 1-2 people do facial plastic surgery every day, and the cost exceeds100000 yuan.

A staff member of a beauty salon told the reporter that their basic facial care is 99 yuan, and the beauty salon needs 30 cents. (Intern reporter Zhang Xueli also contributed to this article)

Top ten profiteering industries in ancient and modern times

1. Opium trade:

This is the most shameless trade in history, which has brought great wealth to westerners and endless disasters to China.

2. triangle trade: glass balls and cheap toys in Western Europe, slaves in East Africa, and the mutual trade of tobacco, sugar, coffee and peppers in North America. this is

The most profitable route in the era of great navigation and cruel primitive accumulation laid the economic foundation for the future expansion of western powers.

3. The Silk Road

This was the most dangerous route in ancient China, but it was also the most profitable, which promoted the trade prosperity of the countries where the trade routes passed. However, it is often affected by war and gradually replaced by shipping.

4. Spice route

This is Portugal's proudest trade, which once provided a lot of wealth for Portugal's expansion. Later, it was operated by the Netherlands and Britain. Compared with the golden route, it has been unknown, but its huge profits exceed the former.

5. The Road of Ocean Porcelain

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the development of shipbuilding industry has completed a large number of maritime trade, as well as the entrepot trade of Arabs and Italians. After China's strength weakened in Ming and Qing Dynasties, this trade still created a large number of wealthy businessmen in Nanyang.

6. Golden Route

The metals commonly used in the Inca Empire were the treasures seized by the colonists, and the mining of gold mines was also crazy. Unfortunately, this kind of trade is mostly official and has a strong feudal meaning.

7. Smuggling salt trade

From the day when salt became a commodity, smuggling salt became a way to get rich. Its high profits and wide number of participants are staggering. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, many large families made their fortunes by smuggling salt.

8. Dye trade

Phoenicians were famous businessmen in ancient times, and the Phoenician name was the name of a purple fuel they produced. Phoenicia is located in present-day Lebanon, and they taught the Jews the way of trade.

9. Sword trade

Damascus sword is the best weapon in the ancient west. During the war years, arms sales increased greatly and arms dealers made a fortune. This is the way for some Arab businessmen to get rich.

10. Yangbu Trade

Capitalism is a typical example of developing the market of feudal countries. Because of the low cost of weaving, Indian domestic cloth lost its market, while foreign cloth opened up the situation in one fell swoop. The profit of this trade is relatively low, but it is very stable, and it is a major source of income for British and Indian companies.

Ten illegal profiteering industries

1. Drug trafficking

50 grams of business is enough to kill people. If there is no high profit, who will be willing to gamble!

2. Open a small coal mine without permission

Despite the world, the miners' lives were abandoned. Behind the well-dressed and luxurious private cars of mine owners, private coal mines collapsed everywhere, and fresh lives fell.

3. Pirated CDs

Use weight when buying, and six or seven yuan each when selling. Everyone who sells pirated CDs has entered a "well-off society". They only need the equipment and don't need to pay the copyright. The profit of pirated CDs can be seen.

4. Selling illicit salt

Refined iodized salt is collected from a salt well below the surface 1000 meters by scientific methods, and is made by impurity removal, drying, disinfection, iodization and packaging. It's much simpler to make illicit salt. It can be extracted directly from the sea and lake, which is harmful but low in cost.

Open a casino

How many people lose everything because of a word "gambling". I have only heard of those who lost their wealth because of gambling, but I have never heard of those who got rich because of gambling. Where did all the money go? The casino owner has it all!

6. high interest

Usually collude with casinos, borrow 1000 today and pay 1500 tomorrow, that's still an acquaintance. Compared with the bank's annual interest rate of more than 2%, the return of usury is much faster.

7. Customs smuggling

The major smuggling case I want to talk about: Xiamen Yuan Hua case, involving an astonishing amount of money: 7 billion. What else do you need to say? Women and children want to know.

8. Hospital number traffickers

Catch, catch, catch! We're not talking about thieves, we're talking about hospital traffickers! What? Out of town? As it happens, you are a cheater, and you will be charged a registration fee of several hundred yuan. What traffickers need is to keep waiting in line, which saves trouble and makes money!

9. Illegally practicing medicine

Without medicine, equipment and qualification certificate, you can start a business by renting a room and buying a table. This kind of person also claims to be able to cure all kinds of incurable diseases, but it costs a lot of money to cure them badly.

10.MLM

Instill you with the legend of an annual salary of one million. How many people are separated from each other, and relatives and friends are far away, but only make individuals rich.