"Asia's richest woman", "Hong Kong's first rich woman", "Wonder Woman", "Chinachem Sweetie", "Hong Kong Building Queen" these various titles on her can be described as not exaggerated,
She is a prominent figure in the Hong Kong circle, her life is more wonderful and legendary than Hong Kong movies, she is the chairman of the board of directors of Chinachem Group in Hong Kong - Gong Ruxin.
Why is this asia's richest woman with more than 5 times the queen's assets and a net worth of 40 billion yuan, "Gong Ruxin", still wear a pigtail in her sixties?
As the richest woman in Asia, but her behavior is incomprehensible? What was the reason for her to create this situation?
On April 3, 2007, gong Ruxin, a 70-year-old Hong Kong figure and chairman of Chinachem Group in Hong Kong, died of illness and caused a huge sensation as soon as it was released. Looking back on her life, as an elite woman in the business world, she constantly experienced all kinds of amazing strange things.
Gong Ruxin was born in 1937 in Shanghai to a middle-class well-off family, her father was named Gong Yunlong, who worked as an ordinary employee of Chinachem Company.
Therefore, Gong's father became acquainted with generations of business, established the Chinachem Company in Shanghai, and Wang Tingxin, a capitalist with a rich family foundation, and became brothers.
Although in the war years, Gong Ruxin, who was blessed by his parents, still lived a very happy childhood.
With the close contact between Gong Yunlong and Wang Tingxin, the two families became more and more acquainted, and the young Gong Ruxin and Wang Dehui became green plum bamboo horses.
Until 1947, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Tingxin, who was born a capitalist, decided to move his family to Hong Kong, and the two children were forced to separate the two places.
Because of their strong longing, Gong Ruxin and Wang Dehui began to write letters to each other frequently, and their feelings became more and more intense in the letters exchanged.
So in 1955, Gong Ruxin, who had just turned 18, decided to go to Hong Kong alone to join this lover who had made up his mind.
In September of the same year, the two who ended their 8-year long-distance relationship got married despite the opposition of Wang Dehui's family.
After marriage, Gong Ruxin began to gradually understand the gap between himself and Wang Dehui, and the rich family foundation of the Wang family was enough to let Wang Dehui have more right to be dashing and choose.
So she threw away her laziness and greed, and in the early 60s, she joined hands with her husband who broke away from the family to establish "Chinachem Property".
After starting the company, Gong Ruxin also went to learn English in order to be able to better assist her husband.
Hard work will always be rewarded, for the entrepreneurship to pay a lot of the couple, but also all the way through the thorns, not long, on the basis of the Wang family's original Western medicine and bleaching and dyeing amateur, carried out the agency of the world's famous brands of emerging petroleum products, agricultural products, feed and other business, so that Chinachem Real Estate has become a well-known large company in the industry.
In the process of assisting her husband in business operations, Gong Ruxin also gave full play to his business talents and actively grasped the current economic trend of the market.
And in 1967, when Hong Kong's housing prices fell badly and all walks of life were affected by economic problems, she shrewdly predicted the economic situation and bought a large amount of land at a low price.
And a few years later, when Hong Kong entered a period of rapid economic development, the husband and wife also used the land purchased at a low price to carry out real estate development, so as to make a lot of money, so that the performance of Chinachem Group doubled several times in an instant.
In Hong Kong in the 1970s, she and her husband also pioneered the "self-produced and self-marketing" business model in the real estate industry, from land purchase, house construction, to sales, all contracted by Chinachem Group.
Gong Ruxin used his sharp and unique vision to make his Chinachem Property the largest private real estate developer in Hong Kong.
Although Chinachem's development is in the sky, Gong Xinru, who has paid a lot for the company, only silently stands behind Wang Dehui at this time and rarely appears in public.
Trees are big, and the wind and water in their careers are rising, but they have brought them big trouble. Although Wang Dehui and Gong Ruxin have always been low-key in terms of life style, they still attracted the attention of gangsters. The home of The Victoria Peak Villa in Hong Kong, which originally symbolized the magnates, became the starting point of their disaster.
In early 1983, Wang Dehui and Gong Ruxin, as usual, drove from their homes to work normally, but on the way, they were kidnapped by several bandits armed with knives and guns.
The bandits blindfolded Wang Dehui and transported him back to the den in a large refrigerator, but released Gong Ruxin home and asked her to prepare a huge amount of $11 million to redeem people.
In this regard, Gong Ruxin, who was eager to save his husband, immediately remitted $11 million to the designated Taiwan bank account, the ransom was successfully transferred, and the kidnappers also fulfilled their promise to release Wang Dehui.
After the kidnapping, the police also immediately launched an investigation, and even the kidnapping case caused a huge sensation in Southeast Asia at that time due to its very careful and detailed planning and intricate case, and also made the couple famous overnight and became the focus of public attention.
I thought the incident would come to an end, but life is far more dramatic than comedy.
In April 1990, Wang Dehui was kidnapped again on his way home after playing squash at the clubhouse, and two days after Wang Dehui was robbed, "Chinachem" received a blackmail call from the kidnappers, demanding a ransom of $60 million.
Compared with the $11 million asked for in the first kidnapping, the kidnappers' appetite has obviously become larger, and even so, Gong Ruxin still deposited $30 million into the designated bank account according to the kidnappers' instructions.
Then he immediately reported the case to the police for help, but what he did not expect was that this time Wang Dehui did not return safely, and according to the testimony provided by the kidnappers arrested by the police, they had already thrown Wang Dehui into the sea with the car.
For the disappearance of Wang Dehui, it became a knot in her heart that could not be put down, she did not want to believe it and searched for three years, but there was still no news.
Although her husband's disappearance made her feel sad, life still had to go on, so Gong Ruxin began to walk from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.
Only this time, Gong Ruxin, who appeared in the public eye, changed his heart, and the image of the business elite in the past was different.
This time, she tied two pigtails, wore a festive mini miniskirt and other girlish costumes, and also painted a rich makeup, making the whole person look crazy and weird.
In the midst of the controversy, Gong Ruxin proved with her super commercial strength that she was never a woman who succumbed to tradition.
Although the image was shocking and many Chinachem employees were skeptical of the ability of the new chairman, Gong Ruxin's professionalism was not affected, and various meetings, negotiations, and investment solicitation were still carried out as usual.
The famous "Capitalist" magazine also described her as "only 5 feet tall, wearing a short silver skirt, with two braids on her hair, like a fashionable girl bouncing to the mall." ”
Gong Ruxin, who has super business acumen and investment vision, has allowed the company to gradually develop into entertainment, commerce and investment under her leadership, and the market price valuation of Chinachem Group has doubled year by year, and she has won the recognition of people from all walks of life in the industry and the public with her sharp vision and super ability.
After unremitting efforts, Chinachem under her leadership is even more influential than when Wang Dehui was still alive, and the company's development is getting better and better.
Therefore, Gong Ruxin is also known as "Wonder Woman" by most Hong Kong people, and her career has been smooth, but she is entangled in a family lawsuit with her father-in-law Wang Tingxin.
After Wang Dehui kidnapped and disappeared, Gong Ruxin inherited all of her husband's property, which caused the dissatisfaction of Wang Dehui's father, Wang Tingxin.
In 1999, nine years after Wang Dehui's disappearance, Wang Tingxin declared his legal death to the local court, asking for the division of Wang Dehui's estate, and took out a will made by Wang Dehui in 1968, which stated that he would leave all the inheritance to his father Wang Tingxin.
When Gong Ruxin learned of this, he immediately took out another will, which said that he would hand over all the property to his wife.
Two completely different wills left Gong Ruxin and Wang Tingxin arguing, and the estate lawsuit lasted for eight years, during which in 2002, Gong Ruxin's will of Wang Dehui was also ruled by the High Court as a forgery document, which made her arrested by the police.
In response, she insisted on appealing, and finally in 2005, gong Ruxin was able to retain tens of billions of assets as an end, ending the longest civil litigation case.
Originally thought that after the end of the lawsuit, Gong Ruxin's life would be a lot more elegant and comfortable, but the day did not go according to people's wishes, on April 3, 2007, Gong Ruxin died of cancer in Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at the age of seventy.
Looking back on her life, happy and carefree in her childhood, beautiful and brave in her youth, and successful in her love career in middle age, until her husband disappeared, there was no news, this strong woman used her soft body to support the entire grand business empire and make it bigger and stronger.
Although the road has been very bumpy, Gong Ruxin has lived a different female life with actions, and the definition of success has never been simple and one-sided.
Women are not only able to prove their ability and value by the family, this woman who does not succumb to tradition has portrayed a successful career map with her life and showed the appearance of a strong woman in the business world with her strength.
If everyone's life is difficult and complete, then firmly grasp the present, seize the broken and fleeting happiness, and work their own to create a different world.