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Let’s guess which country this is?
magazine "Global Finance" rated it as the richest country in the world; it is a socialite on the surface, dedicated to strengthening relations with the United Kingdom and Japan; it has been secretly sponsoring illegal organizations behind the scenes; it is a type of giant trenches, and it is generous in its efforts, often flying tens of billions; it is a big gold chain, a small gold watch, three small barbecue a day is the norm; it is extremely passionate about sports, and has been running on the road to hosting international events, never stopping; national treatment is not ordinary, and I never worry about a house, and cars are a necessity for life.
Of course, this is not the United States!
This is just a small Middle East country that is not as large as Suzhou , with a population of just over 2 million. Recently, it has been blocked by eight surrounding countries at a disagreement, Qatar .
In my impression, Qatar has always appeared in the domestic sports industry, such as the Table Tennis Open, "The National Football Team Losses Qatar Again", the host country of the 2020 World Cup, etc. Although I don't know where this country is, at least it always reminds people of it.
So how can this country rated as the richest in the world be rich? What is the living status of the people? What is the weight of sports in this country? Wait, wait, it's all worth hunting.
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Evaluation of the wealth of Qatar is quite easy. Just say "rich is so rich".
Judging from the current proven situation, Qatar has at least 2 billion tons of oil reserves, ranking 13th in the world, and Qatar's natural gas reserves are second only to Russia and Iran, and are third in the world. This level of oil and gas resource reserves are open enough for small countries to eat for several generations without worries.
But before oil was discovered, Qatar's economy was dominated by fishery and pearl farming, which was basically equivalent to an agricultural society. In the 1920s and 1930s, artificial breeding in Japan began to rise, and Qatar's pearl breeding industry instantly lost its competitiveness, and the entire national economy was on the verge of collapse. But God favored the people of Qatar. In the 1940s, Qatar discovered a huge amount of oil reserves, which completely changed the fate of the entire country. From then on, Qatar's economy began to rise under the promotion of oil and gas resources.
So now, Qatar's gasoline is cheaper than water, about US$0.24 per liter (about 1.5 yuan), and more than 80% of the country's income comes from oil and gas resource exports.
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If you are in a country where oil is cheaper than water and love sports, you will have a place to spend money.
The Qatari royal family should be the best in the world sports circle. They have brought the advantages of "consortium" and "golden yuan" to the extreme.
At the beginning, the Qatar Investment Management Bureau promoted the rise of Paris Saint-Germain Club, bought Ibrahimovic, Silva, Pastore , and vigorously promoted the "gold dollar football". This is a sovereign wealth foundation organized by the government, specializing in domestic and foreign investment in non-oil and gas resources, reducing the risk of Qatar's excessive dependence on energy prices.
Let’s take a look at these investments that can scare people.
On May 8, 2010, the Investment Bureau acquired Harold Group, a subsidiary of Egypt Fufan Fayed. Harold Group owns Harold Mall, one of the famous British malls. Al Fayed is the boss of the Premier League Fulham team. The acquisition also includes the store of the Knightsbridge division, and the Investment Agency is also the largest equity firm in the UK's third largest supermarket chain St. Burley.
In addition, there have never been any scandals between the Investment Authority and the top European clubs, including Everton , Manchester United, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur, and news has been reported to have been acquired by the Qatar Investment Authority.
, and even, the advertisement on the chest of Barcelona jerseys is occupied by Qatar Airways for many years.
If these investments are not shocking enough, look at the following:
On December 5, 2010, the Investment Bureau, as one of the main investors, purchased MGM Film Company, a subsidiary of Disney Group in the United States; in February 2012, the Investment Bureau obtained 66% of the shares of Credit Suisse Group; in August 2012, the Investment Bureau officially subscribed to CITIC Capital's equity, which was equivalent to 22.22% of the expanded equity.
So far, the investment bureau's main investments include Agricultural Bank of China, Barclays , Credit Suisse Group, Disney , Sainsbury, London Stock Exchange , Volkswagen, Porsche Automobile, and so on.
Today, the Qatar Investment Bureau has assets exceeding $100 billion, and the global investment scale exceeds $256 billion.
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In Qatar, the government led by the royal family spared no effort to build a football power. If the eight countries cut off diplomatic relations, it will not affect Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. At that time, Qatar will show the world the results of their "golden dollar football" and "national system".
Over the years, under the operation of the Qatar Football Association, the Qatar national team has basically been built into a "foreign legion". Among the 23 people who went to the 2011 Asian Cup, 9 foreign players accounted for. In the opening game against Uzbekistan , Qatar had 7 mercenaries in the starting lineup. Among the 11 starting players, Ismail was the only one who was born in China. As early as a few years ago, the Football Association formulated a large-scale signing plan. They selected 600 outstanding football students from all ages from all over the world to join Qatar nationality and enrich their reserve strength.
At the same time, they have reached a cooperation with the Bundesliga Leverkusen youth training camp. Leverkusen's first team can train and compete for two months every winter, and Qatar's youth training work is all handed over to Leverkusen's youth training camp to take over.
As early as 2003, they decided to spend $100 million to build 10 Class A teams, stipulating that "one superstar in each club". In less than half a year, football superstars such as Romanho, Batistuta, and Basler gathered in Qatar. The Football Association pays 80% of the salary of these superstars.
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In order to support its reserve force, Qatar has established the world's top Asbair training camp in Doha , but Qatar is not satisfied yet. In 2007, they reached an "largest football talent search project ever" with FIFA - the African football dream. They plan to select 23 football elites from hundreds of thousands of children in seven African countries to go to Doha for full-scale training. Now, even South American and Asian countries such as Paraguay , Guatemala, Thailand, and Vietnam are serving this program.
Moreover, the football hardware environment in Qatar makes European giants drool. Qatar has concentrated all resources in the Asbair training camp, with an overall construction cost of more than US$20 billion. It has everything from five-star hotels, scientific research centers, schools, dormitories, and canteens. In addition, there are indoor track and field fields, basketball courts, swimming pools, volleyball courts, etc. Among them, the scientific research center includes four major departments: sports psychology, sports physics, sports biochemistry, and player potential testing and survey.
Asbaier Stadium
At present, there are 4 air-conditioned stadiums in Qatar. Like Dubai, Qatar is also extremely humid and stuffy, with the highest temperature exceeding 40 degrees. Due to the high power of the air conditioner and the cold air outlets account for three-quarters of the entire stadium, even if the stadium is open, the internal temperature has been reduced to below 25 degrees. The reason why Qatar has made such great efforts to cool down the stadium is because after they successfully bid for the 2022 World Cup, they have always been trying to find ways to prevent the football match from being affected by the high temperature.
Chinese male football player who has enjoyed air conditioning treatment once lamented, "Qataris are so rich. He actually turns on air conditioning on the open-air court, and the cooling is obvious."
The government has invested a lot, and the people are playing football cheaply.The locals in Qatar are basically a symbolic collection of 100 coins (about 178 yuan), and they can enjoy a very artificial grass or even natural lawn playing on the 11-person football field for two hours. Moreover, in addition to playing football at school after school, children can also sign up for the youth team at the local football club, and train and play football every day, which is free.
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Oil and gas resources occupy most of the country's income, and national taxation seems to be unnecessary. Therefore, the national treatment of Qatar is not ordinary.
Nationals do not need to pay personal income tax, and enterprises do not need to pay tax. Even foreign companies in Qatar only need to pay 10% tax. Among the top 10 tax havens in the world, Bermuda is the first in and Qatar is the second.
The government holds resources in one hand and collects US dollars in the other. Most of these US dollars are invested in national welfare and infrastructure construction. Although data shows that Qatar has a population of more than 2 million, only 15% of Qataris are, and 85% of them are government officials, with an unemployment rate of only 0.2%. Once you join the job, you will enjoy benefits for life without considering the possibility of unemployment.
Speaking of national income, according to the standards of government departments, Qatar University undergraduates can usually get 10,000 cards after graduation, which is equivalent to 18,000 yuan, and their income is higher after graduation from graduate degree or above. High wages, no unemployment, no taxes, and high benefits. Qatar implements a high welfare system of "from cradle to grave" for citizens across the country. It does not cost money to see a doctor or go to school. The government will take the initiative to give gifts after getting married. Even the water, electricity, and gas in life are paid by the government. Therefore, the Qataris never need to work.
Local foreigners said: Qatar's social security is very good. If you are sick, you will face everyone in Qatar without spending money, no matter whether you are a local Qatar resident or not. Once, his friend had stomach bleeding and stayed in the hospital for two weeks and had a lot of blood. As a result, when he was discharged from the hospital, he only had to pay 6 cards when he settled the bill. When the doctor said 6 cards, his friend was afraid that he would hear it wrong, so he asked again. When it was confirmed that it was 6 cards, the doctor and his friend laughed.
Qatar street luxury cars are everywhere
Because of the wealth and good welfare, Qatar's aviation welfare has become rich. If you have also taken a Qatar flight and the transfer time is more than 8 hours, you can apply for a one-day city tour or a free transfer hotel (four-star or five-star city hotel). Moreover, the above items include free visas and round-trip pickups.
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For Qatar local residents, money is really just a digital concept.
Qataris never need to consider houses and cars. Although they mainly wear traditional clothing for men's white robes and women's black robes, it is said that many of the black robes of Qatari women are specially designed by world-renowned clothing brands. Qatari men usually match the three main types of robes include famous watches, gold mouths on sleeves, and high-end fountain pens in their chest pockets.
There are many local Qatar students in the school. Even a 16 or 17-year-old Qatar, the cars they drive are Cadillac , Mercedes-Benz and BMW . "The real Qatar is very rich, so they only drive luxury cars when driving."
Qatar is a monarchy-general country. Their king and royal family have a very high status and reputation in the country. One is Huang Yijing, a young Chinese girl who is studying in the local area, said, "There are several classmates from the royal family in our class. Not only are their families rich, but their families are also very large. However, there are also bad places when the family is too big. If you go to two places far apart, it will take more than half an hour to walk, so sometimes they have to drive at home."
Guo Degang 's joke about Yu Qian "The family is big and the business is big, and you have to drive a section of the expressway when you go to the toilet at home" has become a reality.
Huang Yijing's classmates are not only rich, but also have a very high level of spending. The cosmetics used by her female classmates are all from CHANEL or DIOR, and their bags are all from LV. If they want to buy a good brand, Qatar does not have them, they can fly to Dubai for 40 minutes. If they don't have them, they can fly to Europe or the United States to buy them.
Qatar international students' single apartment is about 70 square meters
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The richest and most playful, the princesses and princes on the top floor of the royal family.
"The business girl does not know the hatred of the country, but only knows how to shoot the eagle by bent her bow" was played by them.
According to an insider in the Financial Times, the direct reason for the breakdown of diplomatic relations between eight countries and Qatar is that the Qatar government paid a ransom of up to $1 billion to al-Qaeda and Iran to redeem nine Qatari royals kidnapped during hunting. This led to the scene where eight countries later condemned Qatar's collusion with terrorist organizations. After the kidnapping incident of
, 2 and 30 entourages from Pakistan , India, Bangladesh , Nepal and Egypt were released. According to the description of these entourages after they escaped, the kidnappers burned the 300,000 US dollars taken out by the prince on the spot and shouted, "We want you!" Before
, every December, members of the Qatar royal family would travel to Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places to hunt with falcons. In these countries, they did not need to comply with domestic limits and protection regulations. In Saddam's era, such hunting activities were well protected by local security forces. After Saddam was overthrown, the number of people hunting in Iraq decreased due to security issues.
The prince is waving, the princess is even more waving.
Last summer in August, a luxury hotel in London, England complained that the next room was "too noisy", and the sound of "happy sex" next door was too loud, making them unable to sleep. When the relevant units arrived to handle the investigation, they found that there was actually one woman and seven men in the room playing the "8P" shy game. The heroine turned out to be the Qatar Princess Salva, the sister of 34-year-old Qatar King Hamad.
Qatar "8P" princess
Prince "8P" was exposed, and Hamad, who was disgraced, once defended, "Qatar is not actually a country or nation, but a large natural gas and oil enterprise; therefore I confess that such privileges allow my brothers and sisters to enjoy satisfying their personal desires."
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can play, have money, and can be slutty, but it does not necessarily mean that the Qataris are happy. After breaking into the richest ranks from extreme poverty, this rapid change has had many negative impacts on Qatar.
The entire city is full of construction sites, and there are often congestion during working hours. Many social problems are in front of us, and Qataris are becoming increasingly irritable. They feel that material things are too abundant, but their lives are meaningless, they fall into depression all day long, two-thirds of the citizens suffer from obesity, and the divorce rate in Qatar is as high as 40%.
The government has gradually separated from the people. In the bid for the 2022 World Cup, corruption was everywhere, and the venue construction was disorderly and chaotic. Although the media reported it overwhelmingly, the government was indifferent.
The royal family, rich people, local residents, and outsiders have long been the class of Qatari society, which means that extreme inequality will occur. The rich life in Qatar is almost entirely based on the hard work of foreign workers, with a ratio of 1:7 to foreigners, and the work of building the country and serving the people is basically delivered to them.
htmlFor more than 0 years, Qatar has relied on the "Kafara system" (guarantor system) to monitor foreign construction workers and servants. This system requires all foreigners to have a guarantor in Qatar, usually an employer, who is responsible for the visa of foreign workers. Because passports are usually taken away by employers, many foreign workers have no way to complain after being abused, this practice has been criticized by international human rights organizations.There are about 2 million outside employees on the World Cup construction site. They work in a 50-degree environment every day and
Qatar's values and order are also being hurt, and their history, family affection and old style are constantly being lost. Since children are almost all raised by nannies from Philippines , Nepal or Indonesia , the differences in culture and values between the two generations are getting bigger and bigger.
At the open-air market next to Binhai Avenue, young people drink coffee and smoke hookahs to enjoy the cool night. However, this is just a replica of reconstruction. As early as 10 years ago, the old and authentic old open-air market had been demolished 10 years ago, and the memory of time has long disappeared.
An American anthropologist who has been in Qatar for many years said, "I really feel sympathetic to the Qataris. They have lost almost all important historical heritage."
They play, they wave, they hunt with falcons, fearless, they want to use money to pile up the best gold and dollar football in the world. They "business women don't know the hatred of the destruction of the country, they only know how to shoot the eagle by bent their bows." But in the end, all efforts made for the 2022 World Cup may turn into a bubble with the 8 countries breaking off diplomatic relations.
Yesterday, Qatar residents went to supermarkets to rush to buy food and drinking water, because 40% of Qatar's food is imported from Saudi Arabia. A Dubai resident who is traveling in Qatar said, "People here are stocking up food and supplies."
also makes a fortune, and he is willing to do anything to help the manpower. The long-awaited "China may become the biggest winner" may be realized.
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