She has a 60-year-old age, a 40-year-old appearance, a 20-year-old state of mind, and is nicknamed "Little Sweetie".
According to relevant media reports in the 1990s, her property was 5 times that of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, ranking first among the richest women in the United Kingdom.
She is the richest woman in Asia, Gong Ruxin.
Ruyi, that is, a lifetime of satisfactory wishes, this is her father's good wishes for her.
From being born in a cold door to having assets of 80 billion Hong Kong dollars, Gong Xinru's counterattack life was once envious of others.
But behind the scenery, the huge wealth brought her endless pain...
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Gong Xinru was born in Shanghai on September 29, 1937.
Her father and Wang Tingxin, a wealthy merchant in Wenzhou at the time, were brothers, and the two families had always had a good relationship and frequent exchanges.
The friendship between the two families made Gong Ruxin and Wang Tingxin's son Wang Dehui become a green plum bamboo horse, and their feelings were deep.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Dehui's family moved to Hong Kong, and the two have been separated by two places ever since.
In 1949, Gong Ruxin's father unfortunately died in a shipwreck, and the burden of the family fell on the shoulders of her weak mother and Gong Ruxin, the eldest daughter in the family. For a time, a solid life became difficult and difficult.
That year, Gong Ruxin was 12 years old.
After graduating from high school, Gong Ruxin's life ushered in a turning point - she was admitted to the Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University. Unexpectedly, due to physical reasons, Gong Ruxin had no choice but to withdraw from school and failed to successfully complete his studies.
Forced to make a living, Gong Ruxin came to Hong Kong from his hometown in Shanghai to join the Wang family, which had become more prominent and wealthy. Remembering the old feelings of the past, the Wang family gave Gong Ruxin a lot of help in work and life.
After improving, Gong Ruxin was able to continue his studies and entered an accounting firm as a secretary after graduation.
However, at that time, Gong Ruxin's English was not very good, and a simple word misspelling made her humiliated and scolded by her boss. Because there was nowhere to tell his grievances, Gong Ruxin resigned from the company in a fit of anger.
Although Gong Ruxin was unemployed again, what was different from the past was that this time she was accompanied by Wang Dehui, a green plum bamboo horse.
Frustrated in the workplace, proud of the scene. On September 29, 1955, Gong Ruxin and Wang Dehui entered the marriage hall.
That year, Gong Ruju was 19 years old.
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After getting married, Gong Ruxin lived in seclusion behind the scenes and became Wang Dehui's xiannai assistant, and the two lived a life of "male outside, female inside".
But Gong Ruxin is not satisfied with such a life, she has an independent personality, and is not willing to be a woman who is attached to the rich and dependent on her husband, and she hopes that her talent can be displayed.
In the early 1960s, in order to fulfill Gong Ruxin's wishes, Wang Dehui decided to set up his own portal and joined hands with Gong Ruxin to found "Chinachem Real Estate", and Gong Ruxin officially walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage and fought side by side with Wang Dehui.
When people with the same goal and concept meet, they can always collide with brilliant sparks.
In the process of starting a business, the couple worked hard, and it did not take long for Chinachem to develop from a company engaged in Western medicine and chemical raw materials to a large company that represented the world-famous petroleum industrial products, agricultural products and other brands. In order to cope with the needs of the company's internationalization, Gong Ruxin also deliberately studied English.
At the same time, Gong Ruxin also showed her extraordinary talent in business. She is extremely good at grasping market trends and making decisions that are usually very accurate.
After gaining insight into the housing needs of ordinary people, Gong Ruxin decisively attacked and turned the company's main business to real estate with her husband. After identifying the middle class and the bottom as their target customers, the couple bought a large amount of land to develop affordable real estate.
The success of this business transformation not only allowed Chinachem to develop rapidly, laying the foundation for Chinachem's position in Hong Kong, but also creating a precedent in Hong Kong's real estate industry.
In 1979, Chinachem Land became one of the largest private property developers in Hong Kong, participating in the development of more than 700 property projects in Hong Kong. On the streets of Hong Kong, Chinachem signs can be seen almost everywhere.
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Despite being in the business scene, in real life, the husband and wife's style is very low-key, especially Gong Ruxin, who rarely appears in public.
But even so, as the famous president of Chinachem, the couple still attracted the attention of some thugs who wanted to get something for nothing.
In 1983, Wang Dehui and Gong Ruxin were kidnapped by kidnappers on their way to work. In order to get a huge ransom, the kidnappers let Gong Ruxin go and let her prepare $11 million to redeem Wang Dehui.
Gong Ruxin calmly responded to the kidnappers and prepared the ransom while contacting the police for help. In the end, Wang Dehui was successfully rescued, and the kidnappers were successfully captured.
After a thrilling kidnapping, Wang Dehui and Gong Ruxin became very careful, not only spending a lot of money to equip themselves with bodyguards, but even carrying small radio transmitters with them.
However, fate seemed reluctant to let them go.
Seven years later, in April 1990, Wang Dehui was kidnapped again.
The kidnapping was orchestrated by a retired sheriff. While looking through previous years' cases, he discovered the 1983 kidnapping.
In his view, the failure of the kidnapping case that year was due to the failure of several important links, and if it can be carried out smoothly as planned, the huge amount of $11 million can definitely be obtained.
With this in mind, he decided to personally go out and join forces with the members of the underworld at the time to plan the kidnapping.
After kidnapping Wang Dehui, the kidnappers openly published news in the newspaper, naming Gong Ruxin to contact them and paying a $1 billion ransom.
Gong Ruxin originally thought that as long as she obediently gave money, her husband would be able to come back safely and without incident, but who knows, after she paid the money, Wang Dehui was thrown into the vast sea, and there was no news since.
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Although the disappearance of the husband is a great bad news, the Chinachem property created by the husband and wife cannot be left without a owner.
To this end, Gong Ruxin had to hold up his spirits and shoulder the big burden of Chinachem on his own.
She has excellent market analysis and judgment ability, and has successively invested in large real estate projects such as Chelsfield Real Estate Company in the United Kingdom, while dabbling in hotels, finance, entertainment, culture and other different fields of business, and soon her assets continue to grow.
In just five years, the market value of Chinachem Real Estate has soared from HK$40 billion to HK$80 billion, and the size of the group has far exceeded that of her husband Wang Dehui.
However, the smooth sailing of the career cannot make up for the pain of losing her husband.
For more than ten years, Gong Ruxin has always been unwilling to believe that her husband has passed away, and has not given up for a moment to find her husband's whereabouts.
She had pinned her hopes on a feng shui master, had flown all over the world to seek the guidance of high monks, and had also spent thousands of dollars just to find a clue...
She always believed that her husband had not died, and still let the servants clean her husband's room every day.
But even so, Gong Ruxin was still suspected of persecuting her husband for property.
In 1997, the court declared Wang Dehui, who had been missing for many years, legally dead. Since then, the 8-year-long litigation of the century has begun.
During the dispute, Gong Ruxin frequently received various threatening phone calls from Wang Dehui's father's side, and for a long time he was under high mental pressure and his health deteriorated.
In 2005, Gong Ruxin won the case and received a HK$30 billion estate from Wang Dehui. In the same year, she was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer.
In April 2007, Gong Ruxin died in Hong Kong, and all of his 80 billion yuan of assets were donated to charity.
Before her death, she specifically instructed her to send an obituary in the name of her husband Wang Dehui after her death.
For the last 17 years of her life, the controversial legendary rich woman has been waiting, waiting for the lover who can no longer wait, until the last moment of her life.
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