Chinese billionaire celebrates company’s anniversary by taking 6400 of his employees on holiday to France

A Chinese billionaire has taken 6400 of his staff on a four-day holiday to France, before rounding off their trip by setting a new world record.
Tiens Group Company Chairman Li Jinyuan booked 4760 rooms in 79 four- and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco, in addition to 146 buses, for his employees.
After some sightseeing, the members of one of the biggest Chinese groups ever to come to Europe arranged themselves on the Promenade des Anglais in the southern resort town of Nice to spell out the phrase “Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Cote d’Azur”.
Guinness World Records inspectors were on hand to watch the feat and duly declared that the visitors from China had created the longest human-made phrase visible from the sky.The mass trip to France, and the record-breaking stunt in Nice, were organised to mark 20 years of the Tiens business conglomerate, which operates in a variety of sectors from biotechnology to tourism. Li Jinuan, 57, is featured on the Forbes list of billionaires.
The group were expected to spend 13million in Paris, home of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc De Triomph and The Louvre.
Nice was expected to be 20million better off thanks to the visit - and many of the guests stayed in hotels Cannes, where the famous film festival is to be held next week, and Monaco, long known for being a playground of the rich and famous.
Li Jinyuan, 57, is listed as a billionaire on the Forbes rich list and took more than half of his staff to the region to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the founding of the company.
According to the company, he founded the company in 1995 international conglomerate with businesses in biotechnology, health management, e-commerce, hotel and tourism among others.
France, which is struggling to revive its economy, is the most visited country in the world, according to the latest UN figures, and is seeing an increasing number of tourists from China.
Almost 85 million foreigners a year support a 150billion Euro industry that delivers seven per cent of the nation's GDP, according to government figures.
In 2013, the vast majority of visitors to France were from other European countries, but about 3.1 million came from the United States and 1.7 million from China.

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