Chinese CEO 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, dailytelegraph reports.

Holiday snaps ... Employees of Chinese company "Tiens" attend a parade in Nice as part of the conglomerate’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Picture: AFP/Valery Hache Source: AFP

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.

World record ... employees of the Tiens Group, set a Guinness World Record in Nice. Picture: AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau Source: AP

Mass celebration ... Tiens employees attend a parade on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Picture: AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau Source: AP

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.

Who’s the boss? ... CEO of "Tiens" company Li Jinyuan poses with staff members, while in Nice. Picture: AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau Source: AP

The city of Nice was estimated to be some 20 million euros ($28.4 million) better off for the mass visit.
Earlier the group visited the tourist sites of the French capital Paris, including the Lourve.
France is the most visited country in the world, according to the latest U.N. figures, and is seeing an increasing number of tourists from China. In 2013, 1.7 million Chinese tourists visited France, however the majority of visitors come from other European countries.
Almost 85 million foreigners a year support a 150 billion euro ($213 billion) industry that makes up 7 per cent of the nation’s GDP, according to government figures.

Bon voyage ... Some 6000 employees of Chinese company Tiens were taken on a four-day holiday to France. Picture: AFP/Valery Hache  Source: dailytelegraph