{"id":49043,"date":"2015-05-12T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49043"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:50:23","slug":"chinese-billionaire-ceo-offers-french-vacation-to-6400-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/12\/chinese-billionaire-ceo-offers-french-vacation-to-6400-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese billionaire CEO offers French vacation to 6,400 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/china-billionaire-france-trip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49044\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/china-billionaire-france-trip.jpg\" alt=\"china billionaire france trip\" width=\"550\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NICE, France &#8212; The billionaire chief executive of the Chinese conglomerate Tiens has given 6,400 of his best salespeople a vacation that started in Paris and ended with a parade on France&#8217;s Cote d&#8217;Azur.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Li Jinyuan said he was celebrating the company&#8217;s 20th anniversary by rewarding his staff and aimed for the world record in spelling out a phrase in human bodies.<\/p>\n<p>As their vacation wound down, the employees on Friday massed on the coastal promenade in Nice and, dressed in identical sky blue hats and T-shirts, spelled out the words &#8220;Tiens&#8217; dream is Nice in the Cote d&#8217;Azur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jinyuan was greeted by France&#8217;s foreign affairs minister, Laurent Fabius, mid-week in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>French media estimated the trip&#8217;s cost at 13-20 million euros ($14.5-$22.3 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICE, France &#8212; The billionaire chief executive of the Chinese conglomerate Tiens has given 6,400 of his best salespeople a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-lifestyle","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}