Released in 2000, "The Battle of the Century 2" was produced by Hong Kong Asian Television, starring Zheng Shaoqiu and Liu Qingyun, Guo Aiming, the wife of Liu Qingyun, who also participated in the performance, in addition to Huang Zhixian and Xu Jinglei, Chen Wei, Chen Qitai also performed in it, the producer and director was Wei Jiahui, Liu Qingyun played Fang Xinxia, Zheng Shaoqiu played Ding Ye, although the protagonist of the story was different in name, but the story plot of "Battle of the Century" is actually a continuation of "Big Time".
This time, Liu Qingyun and Zheng Shaoqiu are no longer rivals, they work together to deal with the financial predator Seth played by Nie Anda, the story plot takes place in 2003, the financial crocodile Seth in the play, it is easy to think of the financial crocodile Soros, Soros's sniper Hong Kong dollar incident.
Anda plays seth, a financial predator
Financial tycoon Soros
In mid-July 1997, the Hong Kong dollar was hit by a large number of speculative sell-offs, the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was hit, all the way down, has fallen to 1 US dollar to 7.7500 Hong Kong dollars near the psychological threshold; Hong Kong's financial market is in chaos, the major banks in front of the crowd crowd, the Hong Kong dollar began to panic for the first time in many years. The Hong Kong financial authorities immediately entered the market, forcibly intervened in the market, and bought a large number of Hong Kong dollars to maintain the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the US dollar above the psychological threshold of 7.7500 Hong Kong dollars. In the first week, it really had the desired effect. But soon, the exchange rate against the US dollar fell below the mark of HK$7.7500. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority once again used its foreign exchange reserves to fully intervene in the market, pulling the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate above HK$7.7500, showing strong financial strength (as of the end of December 1997, Hong Kong's foreign exchange reserves were US$92.8 billion, the third largest in the world, after Japan and Chinese mainland). Soros's first tentative attack failed in a strong defense by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
At this time, Soros had just finished a beautiful "sweep war", swept the entire Southeast Asian financial market, and this shot even affected the entire world's financial market, but Soros was by no means the kind of person who was willing to give up easily, he began to make a large number of forward purchases of the Hong Kong dollar, ready to recreate the glory of the Battle of England and Southeast Asia. But soros's decision this time is not wise, because he may have forgotten to consider the Chinese mainland behind Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Chinese mainland foreign exchange reserves of more than 200 billion US dollars, plus Taiwan and Macao, foreign exchange reserves of not less than 374 billion US dollars, such a strong strength, but not England, Thailand and other countries can compare. This attack on the Hong Kong dollar, the odds of winning are not very certain.
For Hong Kong, maintaining the fixed exchange rate system is a guarantee for maintaining people's confidence, once the fixed exchange rate system is lost under the impact of international floating funds led by Soros and others, people will lose confidence in Hong Kong, and then destroy Hong Kong's prosperity, so defending Hong Kong's monetary stability is destined to be a life-and-death battle. The Hong Kong government will do whatever it takes to fight back against any challenge to the Hong Kong dollar.
On July 21, 1997, Soros began a new offensive. On the same day, usd/HKD 3-month forwards rose 250 points and the HKD 3-month interbank rate rose from 5.575% to 7.06%. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority immediately orchestrated a counterattack the next day. The Hong Kong government raised the Interest Rate on the Hong Kong Dollar by issuing large amounts of government bonds, which in turn pushed the Exchange Rate of the Hong Kong Dollar against the US Dollar by a large amount of government bonds. At the same time, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued verbal warnings to two banks suspected of speculating in the Hong Kong dollar, making some Hong Kong dollar speculators tremble and finally choose to withdraw from the Hong Kong dollar speculation team, which will undoubtedly weaken Soros's speculative power. When the Hong Kong dollar began to speculate again, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised short-term interest rates sharply, causing overnight lending rates between banks to soar. Then the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index fell from the peak of 16673 points to 6660 points, down 60%, and Soros shorted the Hang Seng Index in advance, please judge rationally.
Soros and Buffett
Although Soros finally failed to snipe at the Hong Kong dollar, Soros was a genius in the financial world, and the whirlwind he set off in the international financial world swept almost all over the world, causing a financial crisis that made the financial circles of various countries change their minds. From the old Bank of England to Mexico in South America, to the emerging industrial nations of Southeast Asia, and even Japan, the economic behemoth, was not spared the whirlwind of Soros. The hedge funds managed by Soros, the financial instruments used for investment, and the amount of funds used are difficult for ordinary investors to match, but his investment secrets are still instructive for ordinary investors.
In the play, The financial giant Seth plays Nie Anda, born in 1947 in San Francisco, USA, who is very close to China, and when he was one year old, he followed his parents as missionaries to Changsha, Hunan, China. Initially he worked at Li's Voice, then joined TVB; his first wireless work was "The Prodigal Son of Xiangcheng". Anda Nie also composed and scored films, having won the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film Score for "Lovers Goddess" for Best Film Song at the 1983 Hong Kong Film Awards and "Mr. Zombie"; and often made cameo appearances in films, saying that he remembers most fondly as a small role in "Raptors Across the River". In 2011, he made a cameo appearance in the TV series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" on Guangdong Television.
Anda Nie is extremely talented, he is not only a famous singer in the 60s and 70s, but also a famous songwriter, musician, program host, actor. He has collaborated with Gu Jiahui and Huang Zhun to create numerous popular songs, film and television music, and participated in numerous international music creation competitions and won many awards. It has to be said that he won the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Music Award for "Mr. Zombie". Nie Anda joked that he had a date with zombies, and the first band he formed when he was 12 was called Zombies, but he didn't expect that after 30 years, "Mr. Zombie" won an award.
Although, "The Battle of the Great Era 2 Century" due to the absurd and bizarre plot story, many characters in the play, the branches are too cumbersome, so that the plot progress is also delayed, after the broadcast of the outside world response is flat. However, it is still a classic of financial TV dramas. In 2006, the film "I Want to Be Famous" starring Liu Qingyun and Huo Siyan won the Best Actor Award at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2012, he won the Best Actor at the 49th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for his film "Death Gold". Zheng Shaoqiu , born on February 24, 1947 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong actor and singer.
He joined TVB in 1970 and began starring in television series, movies and releasing solo records. In 1976, he played three roles in "Book of Swords and Enmity", "Chen Jialuo", "Qianlong" and "Fukang'an". In 1978, he starred in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", playing Zhang Wujie. In 1979, he played "Chu Liuxiang" in the martial arts drama "Chu Liuxiang". In 1991, he played "Qianlong" in "Joke about Qianlong" and attracted wide attention. In 1992, he played "Ding Crab" in "Big Time", which created a unique phenomenon in the Hong Kong stock market and economics circles since then, known as the "Ding Crab Effect".
In 2007, the Hong Kong media selected the "Top 100 Hong Kong Classic TV Roles", zheng Shaoqiu alone won seven classic roles, and in the same year, he was invited to star in the epic drama "Rong Gui" with the theme of the return of Hong Kong. On 26 October 2016, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in recognition of his achievements in his acting career.
In the play, Zheng Shaoqiu sang the opening song "Big Times Little Visitor" and the ending song "Fame and Fortune Have More".