Fang Runhua, Chairman of Hip Shing Bank, Chairman of Fang Shu Fu Tang Fund and Fang Runhua Fund, passed away on January 6, 2022 at the age of 98. On January 28, the descendants of the Fang family held a farewell ceremony for Fang Runhua's body in Hong Kong. On the same day, celebrities from all walks of life appeared to bid farewell to Fang Runhua, including Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Zhu Wen, director of the Coordination Department of the Liaison Office of the CPC Central Committee. Fang Runhua has been doing charity in a low-key manner for 66 years, with a charitable footprint all over the country and countless donation projects. He has won the "China Charity Award", the highest government award in the field of public welfare and charity in China, and the "Fang RunHua Star" of Planet 5198 under his name.
Patriotic Confucian businessman Fang Runhua has devoted his life to charity Celebrities from all walks of life and colleges and universities deeply mourn
Fang Runhua, Chairman of Hip Shing Bank, Chairman of Fang Shu Fu Tang Fund and Fang Runhua Fund, passed away peacefully on January 6 accompanied by his family at the age of 98. Xie ChengXing issued a statement: Mr. Fang Lao's lifelong commitment to charity and public welfare, timely charity is the basis of happiness, and his esteemed "Tianxingjian, gentlemen with self-improvement; terrain Kun, gentlemen with thick virtue" Chinese national spirit, will be passed on as a model for children and grandchildren from generation to generation. Letters of condolences from various circles were sent to express their deep condolences, including Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, He Yicheng, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, Li Ka-shing, founder of the Yangtze River Group, and Professor Zhang Xiang, President of the University of Hong Kong. "Fong Yun Wah is a successful businessman and outstanding patriotic philanthropist, participating in countless charity projects in the Mainland and Hong Kong, covering education, medical services, aerospace technology, elderly and child care services, and community building," said Carrie Lam. His dedication to serving others and giving back to the community is recognized at home and abroad, and he himself is highly respected by all walks of life. ”
At 10:00 a.m. on January 28, members of the Fang family held a farewell ceremony for Fang Runhua's body at the Hong Kong Funeral Home, and celebrities from all walks of life arrived in formal clothes to bid farewell to Fang Runhua on his last journey, and the atmosphere was solemn and solemn. The participants included Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the HkSAR, Chu Man, Director of the Coordination Department of the Liaison Office of the CPC Central Committee, Fok Chun-wan, Chief Executive Officer of Fok Ying Tung Group, Cheng Chi-gang, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of New World Development Limited, and Ho Chao-chung, Chairman of Shun Tak Group. At the farewell ceremony, Mr. Fang Wenxiong, son of Fang Runhua and managing director of Xiecheng Bank, delivered a speech, saying: "My father has been actively doing good deeds all his life and becoming a model for his children and grandchildren, and we will pass on his spirit and the family's fine traditions to do a good job in my father's charity and public welfare." "Due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, many mainland institutions donated by Fang Runhua cannot attend the scene to mourn in person, but send condolence letters, telegrams of condolence or send wreaths to express their condolences. Fang SiLangrun, Than Qi Qinghua, Fang Runhua's lifelong benevolence and benevolence will converge into the descendants of Jianghai Fuze and will always be respected and remembered by the world.
War-torn dropouts helped his father run business patriotic poverty alleviation awards numerous times
Born in 1924 in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, Fang Runhua moved to Hong Kong with his father Fang Shuquan at an early age, and his mother died of illness when he was 8 years old. Fang Runhua, encouraged by his father, strived to go upstream and was admitted to The Emperor's College. In 1941, when the Japanese army invaded China and occupied Hong Kong, Fang Runhua was forced to suspend school, and the family business was also greatly hit, he had to drop out of school to help his father in business, and he was repeatedly bullied by the Japanese army during his work. In 1948, Fang Runhua founded Xiecheng Bank to deal in export trade. With the outbreak of the Korean War in the 1950s and the United Nations embargo on China, the Fang family's business was affected, but it continued to forge ahead, becoming the largest exporter of cinnamon in Hong Kong in 1953. In 1954, it entered the real estate industry and became one of the first largest real estate developers since the opening of Hong Kong, sharing the reputation of veteran real estate families such as Fok Ying Tung, Cheng Yu Tong and Li Ka-shing, and the company has been rooted in Hong Kong for 73 years.
It has been learned that during the difficult period when the Japanese invaded China, Fang Shuquan had to cook porridge for the displaced refugees even if he brought rice on credit. He was also deeply saddened by the brutal acts of the Japanese army in the early years, realizing that if the country was not strong and the people were not rich, the country would not be a country and the people would not be a people. In the early days of entrepreneurship, Fang Runhua firmly told his father: "If you have a successful career in the future, you will definitely engage in charity work." With the development and growth of Xiecheng Bank, he established the FangShu Futang Fund in 1977 and the Fang Runhua Fund in 1986, and extracted 10%-15% of the profits from the company every year for doing good, so as to take the society and use the society. As a generation of patriotic Confucian businessmen, Fang Runhua has served in many public positions in Hong Kong and the mainland, including honorary president of the China Charity Federation, vice president of the Hong Kong Real Estate Construction Chamber of Commerce, etc., and has won the 4th National Top Ten "Poverty Alleviation Champions", the "China Charity Award" awarded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the "Asian Charity Hero" of Forbes in 2010, the honorary doctorate or honorary academician awarded by 17 universities at home and abroad, and the "Silver Bauhinia Star" and "Golden Bauhinia Star" awarded by the Hong Kong SAR Government, etc., and has achieved outstanding results in charity.
Oxfam's donation projects are numerous and tireless efforts to donate medical aids and education to fight earthquakes and disaster relief
Since 1956, the Fang Runhua family has taken the lead in donating funds to the mainland and has become a pioneer in charity. In order to repay the nurturing grace of his hometown Dongguan, the first local school, Fang Zhaoyi Primary School, and the first hospital, Dongguan Houjie Town Fangshuquan Hospital, were built successively. In terms of education, Fong Yun-wah often regrets that he was young and out of school, and he strongly supported the Hope Project, donated nearly 200 primary and secondary schools, and called on more wealthy Hong Kong businessmen to join: "Supporting education is a long-term cause, sowing seeds now, it will always bear fruit in the future, and the impact of education spans generations." He also funded more than 130 "211 Project" key universities across the country to establish educational facilities such as computer centers, teaching buildings, lecture halls, etc., and set up "scholarships for teaching" in some universities. Mr. Fang has donated more than 300 schools in more than 60 years, and has donated countless educational projects throughout 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Nowadays, helping many students to complete their dreams of study is another kind of fulfillment.
Fang Runhua once went deep into remote mountainous areas and witnessed the difficulties of the people at the bottom to treat diseases, so he extended his philanthropy to the medical field, and donated more than 50 township health centers in many poor townships such as Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang through Fang's two major funds, solving the problem of "difficult and expensive medical treatment" for villagers. He also selected high-quality universities and hospitals to focus on funding the development of new drugs and new instruments to treat common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, hepatitis B, and diabetes. From primary medical treatment to high-end medical treatment, they have made outstanding contributions to the health of the people. In terms of social welfare, the Fund donated and raised tens of thousands of wheelchairs to the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people everywhere, and at the same time, through relevant government departments and charities, donated and built elderly centers, child care centers and child care centers in China and Hong Kong, etc., which truly achieved medical treatment for the disabled, elderly care and child care. In order to support the development of the motherland's aerospace industry and improve the research environment for scientific researchers, Fang Runhua has donated educational science and entertainment centers in Xichang and Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centers, and donated scientific research at the Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory. In order to commemorate Fang Runhua's contribution to the development of China's aerospace industry, in 1994, it was nominated by the Purple Mountain Observatory and approved by the International Minor Planet Committee to name Planet 5198 "Fang Runhua Star". In the face of natural disasters in the country, Fang Runhua has stepped forward many times with two major funds. In the earthquake relief operation of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, primary schools were donated to Tongjiang County, Yilong County and other disaster areas, and millions of dollars were donated to help the affected college students tide over the difficulties. Fang Runhua also donated 3 million YUAN to the Zhejiang University Education Foundation to help with scientific research on the prevention and treatment of H7N9 avian influenza and provide more training opportunities for clinical frontline doctors and nurses. When the new crown epidemic broke out, Fang Runhua also immediately donated money, closely following the anti-epidemic team.
Fang Runhua's donations in education, medical services, aerospace science and technology, elderly and child care services, community construction and other projects are numerous, and the donations have exceeded 1 billion. Fang Runhua was invited to go back to his alma mater, Emperor's College, to share, and asked why he spared no effort in charity, he felt: "The experience of war in my childhood has made me deeply understand the importance of education and health, and I hope that all Chinese children will have books to read and hope that human beings will be free from the suffering of disease." In addition, I want to support China in developing science and technology to make the country prosperous and strong. As a descendant of Fang Runhua, his grandson Fang Tianming also said: "Grandpa taught by example and influenced Far," and all our family members will continue this benevolent heart, love the country and Love Hong Kong, and use their own strength to promote the development of science and technology." The idea of Fong Shu Fuk Tong Fund and Fong Yun Wah Fund to help people in need will be passed on from generation to generation. "The Si people have passed away, the seeds sown by Fang Runhua in the road of charity all his life will continue to blossom and bear fruit, and the "Fang Runhua Star" will always flicker in space, illuminating the direction of more charity walkers.