Annual Meeting Awards

On stage, the program was gradually drawing to a close, and the final grand finale act was a performance by Zhang Lan.

With the conclusion of Zhang Lan's performance, the annual meeting's program performances came to a complete end.

The host walked onto the stage.

"Thank you to Zhang Lan for the song she performed for us. While our annual meeting's performances have come to an end, our annual meeting itself is not over yet."

"The next segment is the awards ceremony. I will announce the winners for each award in a moment; employees whose names are called may come up on stage to receive their prizes."

Ye Feng said this as he took out a cue card, on which the list of winners for the first award was written.

"The first award is the Diligent Frontrunner Award. The winners are…"

"Wang Maonian, Li Shen, Wei Yan…"

Following the host's announcement, several figures slowly stood up and walked to the stage.

After the awards procedure was completed, everyone walked back carrying a 20,000 yuan red envelope.

Ye Feng began to announce the second award.

"The second award is the Model Couple Award. There are 50 pairs in total; couples whose names are called may come up on stage to receive their prizes."

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"The third award is the Single Dog Award. There are 200 spots in total; employees whose names are called may come up on stage to receive their prizes."

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"The fourth award is the Shortest Working Hours Award, with a total of 160 employees winning."

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"The fifth award is…"

One after another, employees went up to the stage to receive their awards, and each winning employee received a 20,000 yuan red envelope.

One after another, the employees returned to their seats happily, holding their red envelopes.

"Old Liu, you've earned quite a lot this year. You're a team leader in the Cangxue Games department, and in the [Extreme Survival] department too. Your year-end bonus and project bonus must be quite substantial, right?"

"Oh no, not at all, it's not that much."

The employee called Old Liu quickly waved his hand while putting away his red envelope, though he was feeling quite pleased inside.

As a team leader for [Extreme Survival] at Cangxue Games, his monthly salary was already 18,000 yuan. When adding in some welfare subsidies, it could reach 20,000 yuan.

Plus, as a veteran employee who had worked for a full year, he received 14 months of salary this year, so his annual salary came to around 280,000 yuan.

As a team leader, he received a year-end bonus of 300,000 yuan and a project bonus of 450,000 yuan. Since he was in the [Extreme Survival] department, his project bonus was the highest.

Adding in some sports meet prizes and annual meeting prizes, his total income for the year had already reached over 1 million yuan.

And this was just his own salary. His wife currently worked in the Group's Human Resources department. Although she didn't have as many project bonuses as he did, when counting in various welfare bonuses, the money she took home in a year was also over 300,000 yuan.

The couple had an annual income of 1.3 million yuan, which was already equivalent to that of a corporate executive.

Of course, he knew not to flaunt his wealth, so he didn't plan to say much to the colleague beside him.

Moreover, he and his wife had already planned to save this money first and wait for General Manager Chen's Tomorrow Community to be completed so they could buy an apartment there.

He had heard General Manager Chang mention once that the managers under Mingri Group were all planning to buy apartments in Tomorrow Community.

This indicated that Tomorrow Community would very likely become a residential area for Mingri Group's upper management.

Since he was currently a team leader, as long as Mingri Group continued to expand and he worked hard, there was still room for promotion.

Therefore, it would be better to purchase a property in Tomorrow Community early.

Although they would need a loan for now, given their current salary and benefits, they would pay off the mortgage in about 3-4 years.

Furthermore, if he were promoted, the time it would take to pay off the mortgage would certainly be even shorter.

As one employee after another returned to their seats with red envelopes, the atmosphere in the hall became even more lively.

"Tell me, why would General Manager Chen set up an award for the shortest working hours? Isn't that encouraging employees to reduce their own working time?"

"You don't understand, do you? Working hours have another implication: high work efficiency. Think about it: for the same work, as long as your work efficiency is high, your working time will relatively decrease."

"That seems to be the case."

"That's right. General Manager Chen is encouraging us to improve our work efficiency."

"I see. Then what about the Single Dog Award and the Model Couple Award? These don't seem to have anything to do with work."

"That is the Group's care for us. The Single Dog Award is to tell those who are single that they are not alone; the Group is thinking of them. The Model Couple Award is to encourage marital harmony—a harmonious family leads to success in everything, right? It's the Group treating us like family."

"So that's it. General Manager Chen has really put a lot of thought into this. The Group treats us as family, and we will also treat the Group as our home."

"…"

After a while, the annual meeting awards ceremony concluded.

"Everyone, please settle down. Now that the various awards for the annual meeting have all been presented, employees who didn't win a prize shouldn't be discouraged; try harder next year."

"Next, there is the luck-based lucky draw segment. Everyone should be familiar with this, as everyone already participated in one during the sports meet."

"However, this time there are some differences. This time there are a total of 5 special prize tickets: 2 special prize tickets worth 300,000 yuan, and 3 special prize tickets worth 200,000 yuan."

"Let's see who is lucky enough to draw these 5 special prize tickets this time."

As the host's voice faded, the hall erupted in a buzz of noise.

At the same time, two employees pushed a lucky draw box to the center of the stage, while five suitcases were placed on a table to the side.

Some employees who noticed the suitcases revealed expressions of anticipation.

With the experience from the sports meet, they naturally knew what was inside those suitcases—it was clearly cash.

As long as they drew a special prize ticket, they could walk away with 200,000–300,000 yuan in cash.

Ye Feng walked to the side of the lucky draw box. Looking at the familiar box and the five suitcases placed to the side, he couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.

This was all money.

Just these five suitcases alone amounted to 1.2 million yuan.

And there were other prize tickets; on average, each prize ticket was worth 10,000 yuan, which meant over 30 million yuan in total.

Such benefits were truly enviable; he even wanted to join Mingri Group to participate in this lucky draw.

Unfortunately, it was very difficult to get into Mingri Group now, and with his current skills, he didn't know what he could do if he joined.

However, as long as he worked hard, being the host for Mingri Group was also quite good.

Ye Feng smiled faintly, then picked up the microphone.

"Next, I invite General Manager Chen to come on stage to draw the first prize ticket for the annual meeting and secure a good start for us."

Accompanied by enthusiastic applause, Chen Mo slowly walked onto the stage.

"General Manager Chen, please draw the prize."

"Hmm!"

Chen Mo nodded and, in front of the many employees, reached his hand into the lucky draw box.