Livestream queen" Vi A - From a hotgirl who ran away from home at the ag.e of 16 to a billionaire with a fortune of 32.3 trillion

Recently, the Chinese internet was stirred by the news that "streaming queen" Vi A was accused of tax evasion by the Hangzhou Tax Department (China) with an amount of up to 703 million yuan (2,500 billion VND).

Because this is the first violation, Vi A is not criminally handled. To remedy, she was fined more than 1.341 billion yuan (about 4,800 billion VND). It can be said that the number that Vi A has to pay a fine far exceeds Pham Bang Bang (3,100 billion VND), Trinh Sang (1,052 billion VND).

After the scandal, Vi A apologized and quickly paid compensation with her husband for all related expenses. Vi A's act of tax evasion received a lot of criticism, but at the same time, netizens couldn't help but admire the wealth of the "streaming queen" couple.

It is known that Vi A was one of the faces who raised the first flag on the front of Taobao. She is also considered the symbol of this new industry, similar to the "streaming king" Ly Giai Ky. Up to now, Vi A's channel has attracted up to 17 million followers.

According to preliminary statistics, each livestream, the number of products Vi A sells, earns a revenue of about 160 million yuan (575 billion VND), if the commission is 20%, each session, Vi A can earn 30 million. RMB (107 billion VND). Every year, Vi A livestreams about 300 sessions, equivalent to a revenue of 10 billion yuan (36 trillion). Deducting capital and expenses, Vi A has 2 billion yuan (7,100 billion VND) in annual income.

Starting a business at the ag.e of 16 with a booth of only 6m2

Vi A's real name is Hoang Vi, born in 1985 in an ordinary family in Lu Giang district, Anhui province (China). Her parents divorced, Vi A was adopted by her grandmother. From a young ag.e, she showed independence and strength that no one else her ag.e had. After her grandmother passed away in 2001, Vi Ya decided to go to Beijing to start a business.

Two years later, she and Dong Hai Phong - then still her boyfriend who had accumulated a capital of 6,000 yuan (VND 21.5 million) rented a 6m2-wide stall at a wholesale market near Beijing's zoo, specializing in sel.l wome.n's clothing. Within 3 months, the two earned the first 100,000 yuan (360 million VND) in their lives. At that time, Vi A was only 18 years old.

The business at first seemed very favorable, but Vi A and Dong Hai Phong were not satisfied. Therefore, in 2008, the two continued to move to Xi'an to develop. Realizing that the stall in Xi'an was increasingly profitable, Vi A opened 7 other stalls in a row. With a strong business career, Vi A boldly invested in real estate.

In 2012, when e-commerce began to rise in China, and discovered that their store's revenue had fallen seriously because customers tend to look for items that are available for sale online, Vi A and her husband quickly quickly seized the opportunity and moved to Guangzhou, focusing on converting to online stores.

To understand how this new trend works, Vi A can't help but take a detour. From 2012 to 2015, her stores lost mone.y for 3 consecutive years. In particular, in 2014, due to hard supply chain control problems, on the 11/11 holiday alone, Vi A and her husband lost up to 6 million yuan (VND 21.5 billion) and had to sell 2 houses to repay debt as well as maintain the operation of the chain of stores. But it was also the mistake that helped Vi A realize the tremendous explosive power of e-commerce...

"Streaming queen" and talking numbers

In 2016, Vi A officially joined the livestream on Taobao. With the support of her husband Dong Hai Phong and her own efforts, Vi A is becoming more and more famous. In the same year, Vi A became Taobao's most searched livestreamer, leading to Vi A's shoe store and fashion store bringing in annual revenue of 300 million yuan (1,000 billion VND).

In 2017, Vi A created a resounding success when selling products with revenue of 70 million yuan (VND 251 billion) in just 5 hours of sales on 11/11 sales, far exceeding the record of 20 million yuan. (72 billion VND) of ho.t gir.l livestream Truong Dai Dich.

By 2018, this figure had exceeded 300 million yuan (1,056 billion dong). In 2018 alone, Vi A had an income of 30 million USD (equivalent to more than 700 billion VND). This metric was released by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Another impressive number was recorded at the shopping festival on 11/11/2019, Vi A topped the online sales revenue chart with 555.76 million yuan (more than 1.8 trillion VND) for stores. product is sold. In April 2020, Vi A livestream sold a commercial space rocket manufactured in Wuhan city for 40 million yuan (144 billion VND), a price that has decreased from the original price of 45 million yuan. In May 2020, Vi A's sales livestream attracted more than 37 million views, breaking even the number of people who watched the final episode of the blockbuster Game of Thrones or the prestigious Oscar ceremony.

For nearly 20 years, Vi A and her husband have gradually created their own position. The two also have a very clear assignment, one person shines in public, the other stays behind the scenes, silently running the company and giving maximum support to the other. Looking back on the past journey, Vi A once sighed: "The hardest days, the two of us used to stay in a level 4 house, only drinking filtered water and eating a cake of 2 yuan (7,000 VND), 1 piece of cake. bread, which each of them ate half of."

From 6,000 yuan and the original 6m2 booth, the two have risen to become billionaires with a net worth of more than 9 billion yuan (VND 32.3 trillion). Vi A is also rated by Forbes China as one of the top 5 most potential businesswomen.

The Vi A case was fined, causing a series of KOLs in China to rush to pay taxes for fear of being called in Duyên Trần15:49:05 22/12/2021On December 20, the Chinese tax authority said that "streaming queen" Vi A (Viya) had been fined 1.34 billion yuan (equivalent to 210.6 million USD) for tax evasion. The Hangzhou Municipal Taxation Bureau said Vi Ya, whose real name is Huang Wei, was accused of concealing...