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In Hong Kong, a well-known "god of wealth" Liang Jinsong, in the face of the temptation of 23 million annual salary and US green card, resolutely resigned and gave up, to make his own contribution to the motherland and Hong Kong.
After turning to politics, in order to revitalize Hong Kong's economy, he made 3 trillion yuan for Hong Kong in just 3 years.
Liang Jinsong
There is a saying that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and children of mice will punch holes.
It is a matter of genetic inheritance, but many celebrities and scientists are not from the "Dragon and Phoenix Family", and they will still win a wonderful life when they grow up.
Liang Jinsong is such an example, although he is not from the Zhong Ming Ding Food Family, he is an excellent patriotic entrepreneur.
Leung was born in 1952 to an extremely poor family in Hong Kong.
At that time, Hong Kong had not yet returned to the embrace of the motherland, and it was not as prosperous and powerful as it is today, and the people at the bottom lived in great hardship.
Liang Jinsong is the third child in the family, and there are a total of 9 children in the family, and the whole family is lively and live in a dilapidated small rental house.
Because of poverty, Liang Jinsong liked to deal with "money" since he was a child, and he was also very naughty, leading his younger brothers and sisters to be naughty and mischievous every day.
Therefore, Liang Jinsong is often reprimanded and even beaten by his parents, but he does not care, and he likes to be maverick at a young age.
Because there are many children in the family, parents do not pay much attention to educating their children to support their families, and only require them to be able to go to school on time.
At the beginning of Xiaosheng, Liang Jinsong was admitted to Yinghua College with his clever brain, but he never liked to study, and entering the school was also a "crane tail" result.
Anglo-Chinese College
At that time, Yinghua College was a five-year education, including the junior high school and high school we know well, and the requirements of this school were also very strict.
Liang Jinsong does not like to learn at all, and also likes to make trouble in the class, which is completely the most headache type of student for the teacher.
He only scored 13 points in the second year of high school, and was almost expelled from the school, but fortunately, he had a Chinese teacher to guarantee him, so he could continue to stay in school.
After that, the principal came to him and said, "You are really smart, although you only love to be mischievous every day, but I believe that the students who can be admitted to Yinghua College can get ahead and win their own world." ”
The principal's words made Liang Jinsong suddenly wake up, although reading is not the only opportunity to change his destiny, but for him at this moment, admission to a good university is the best shortcut to change his destiny.
After a year, he temporarily gave up the table tennis and the organization's school newspaper that he had to play all day, and began to be angry.
The prodigal son did not change his head, and Leung Kam-song was admitted to the University of Hong Kong as a liberal arts champion with serious efforts.
From the "tail of the crane" to the liberal arts champion, Liang Jinsong's wonderful life has just begun.
The University of Hong Kong
After entering HKU with the title of glittering student bully, Leung Kam-song could not change what he could not change was still greedy and breaking the rules.
In his first year at the university, Leung became the president of the student council, organizing student activities and focusing on his studies.
It was also during his college years that Liang Jinsong's deep patriotic feelings were awakened.
During his college years, he went back to his ancestral hometown to find his roots, and learned a lot about the customs of his hometown and the feelings of home and country in his Chinese bones.
In his spare time, Liang Jinsong always loved to read the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", memorized Mao Zedong's famous sayings, and cherished the country.
For that generation, the red pure land in his heart was Jinggangshan, and when Liang Jinsong really stepped into Chairman Mao's former residence and went to Jinggangshan to feel the spirit of the red revolution, he understood more about how powerful national belief was.
In addition to these, he is also very keen to organize student activities, and every time there is a patriotic movement in Hong Kong, he will actively sign up to participate.
Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area
When Japan shamelessly competed for the Diaoyu Islands, Liang Jinsong organized students to take to the streets to protest and march.
He proved to outsiders with the firm heart of Chinese youth that every inch of China's land is not touched by others and that China's territorial integrity is inseparable.
Years later, he also applied the theories in The Theory of Contradictions and the Theory of Practice to modern management.
Liang Jinsong continued to participate in practical activities, and his results did not fall at all, and he was also selected to participate in the "Maritime Academy".
The Maritime Academy is a cruise ship that travels around the world, and students travel around the world to investigate and learn about the local customs and customs.
It was also in this year that Liang Jinsong saw the wider world, and his vision and experience were also rich, laying a solid foundation for his studies.
Maritime Academy
In 1973, Liang Jinsong successfully graduated with a bachelor's degree in social sciences, just in time for the local Citibank recruitment of fresh graduates, Liang Jinsong successfully entered citibank with excellent academic qualifications and knowledge level.
Citibank has also become a springboard for him to make a big splash in the business world, and with two years of continuous efforts, he has changed from a humble little person to a key training object of the company.
Liang Jinsong stood out from the crowd and was once again sent by the company to the Philippines to learn forex trading training.
It can be said that such a liberal arts champion of that year was also very talented in numbers and business.
Because after returning to Hong Kong, he was more comfortable with the company's foreign exchange transactions, worked seriously and responsibly, and helped Citibank make a lot of money with his excellent performance.
All this made citibank headquarters also pay attention to this young man, but the headquarters felt that young people should be more experienced, and at that time Citibank would have some restrictions on Chinese employment, but Liang Jinsong was hard to accept defeat.
His talent and hard work broke a lot of the rules hidden in the course of his work.
At the age of 30, Liang Jinsong got a better opportunity to further his education, and the company paid him to enter Harvard University for further study, where he studied professional financial and management systems, and when he returned, he was promoted to regional manager.
The most common evaluation of others is that people who are young and promising, talented, and born to do big things in business.
Citibank arranged for him to work as an executive in a number of banks in Singapore, New York, Manila and other regions, which allowed him to accumulate more experience in the financial circle.
In 1992, Leung Kam-song was promoted again to become president of the Hong Kong branch of Citibank. As a result, he became famous in the financial circles and was nicknamed "The Emperor of Migrant Work".
At that time, the mainland's reform and opening up had already begun vigorously.
Liang Jinsong has been paying attention to the development of the country since the beginning of college, and seeing that the country is taking the correct and stable development path, he also wants to do something for the motherland.
In the early days of the mainland's reform and opening up, the most scarce thing was professional talents in various fields, Liang Jinsong used his professional ability to cultivate financial talents, and also cooperated with mainland banks in the name of Citibank to open courses.
For countries that are booming, these are as refreshing as the rain in time.
Just when Liang Jinsong was able to reach a higher level in his career with a double harvest of fame and fortune, he actually made a decision that made the industry drop its jaw.
In 1996, Citibank headquarters admired such talents as Liang Jinsong, and the headquarters decided to make Liang Jinsong the vice chairman of citibank headquarters in New York.
At that time, Liang Jinsong had been working at Citibank for 23 years, which was a success, and now his career can go to a higher level, and anyone can see it as a great future.
Citibank also offered him an annual salary of up to HK$23 million, which is understood to be the highest position that Chinese people can get in the financial world at that time.
At that time, the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar to the renminbi was basically stable, and the exchange of 23 million Hong Kong dollars into renminbi was more than 23 million yuan.
But these have a prerequisite, that is, to let Liang Jinsong become a U.S. citizen and get a green card to be able to serve.
Changing the nationality was something that Liang Jinsong had never considered, and nationality was a matter of principle in his heart.
As a Chinese he feels infinite pride, and over the years in the financial industry and business experience immersion, he sees the rapid development of the motherland, but also wants to do something useful for the motherland, for Hong Kong.
So he resolutely refused the invitation and resigned from Citibank.
Such news caused quite a stir at the time, after Liang Jinsong left, many banks and financial companies wanted to poach this talent, and Liang Jinsong entered Chase Bank.
Hong Kong's smooth return to the embrace of the motherland, Liang Jinsong's years of pursuit in his heart have a good result, seeing the Chinese flag slowly rising, he was excited to tears.
With a sense of belonging, he was even more determined that he wanted to do something that would help Hong Kong develop better.
In 2001, Leung Kam-sung was invited again to become the Chief Financial Officer of Hong Kong from Chase Bank.
Abandoning business and politics has given Leung Kam-song a new goal: all I have now is given to me by Hong Kong, and I should also do something for Hong Kong to repay it.
After Leung Kam-song came to power, he indeed launched a drastic reform of various systems in Hong Kong.
At that time, Hong Kong's fiscal experience was traumatic, the fiscal deficit had accounted for 6% of GDP, in order to make Hong Kong develop, Leung Kam-song took office from education, taxation and housing prices and other issues "knife".
Although his salary has dropped from ten million to one million, he is not sad about it at all.
It was also after becoming a civil servant that he learned to be humble at all times, after all, business and politics are not the same.
Although Hong Kong is already in a serious deficit, coupled with the blow of the financial crisis, the Hong Kong economy is not optimistic.
But no matter how poor he is, he cannot be poor in education, so he first set his sights on the education problem in Hong Kong.
Recalling my youthful boredom and mischievous time, most of them were unique because they did not like the school's test-taking education, and all walks of life in Hong Kong also frequently complained about it, and high scores and low energy are not the essence of education.
He has a unique view of education, he said that the times are rapidly developing, but the world is cursing education, why is this so?
Liang Jinsong's views and practices on education are still constantly updated, and he and his friends in the business and education circles organized a group of "Education 2.1" to put forward the direction of training young people.
Because I don't know where the direction is, but future talents must have "T-shaped" knowledge, whether it is good values or lifelong learning ability and learning interest, is a necessary condition for future young people to cope with life.
Therefore, he also put forward many suggestions for the education system: education should adapt to change and adapt to the development of the times. These proposals and implementation systems continued to focus on the flexibility and practicality of education after he left politics.
In the next two years, his proposed reforms to increase car purchase taxes and reduce housing prices have also achieved great success, making Hong Kong a huge profit of 3 trillion yuan in just three years, and trying to save Hong Kong's economy.
Fortune magazine also named him one of the top 10 global figures of the year in 2001.
Liang Jinsong also got a new nickname: the god of wealth.
He himself once said: The money a person earns is not his own, and the money spent is his own.
Because he came from a low-level family, many of the reform considerations were the hardships of the low-level people, and the applause from the outside world during his political career has not stopped.
Hong Kong is developing rapidly, where housing prices are notoriously expensive in the world, a mid-range, 50 square meter house that requires ordinary families to struggle for more than 20 years without eating or drinking.
A true portrayal of Hong Kong's dwellings
Liang Jinsong's life experience since childhood also made a deep impression on him.
Therefore, he believes that reform is imperative, although it is carried out vigorously, it will inevitably touch the interests of some rich people, and strong opposition will follow.
Liang Jinsong had already married the "Diving Empress" Fu Mingxia as his wife at that time, and although the two had a huge difference in age, their feelings were very deep.
In order to celebrate the birth of his daughter, Liang Jinsong bought a luxury car for his wife, but because of the negligence in tax declaration, he was caught with the handle of "using power for personal gain", and he submitted his resignation again.
Hong Kong's three years of rapid development is obvious to everyone, of which the role played by Leung Kam-song naturally cannot be ignored, so Hong Kong did not approve his resignation report, but this also failed to stop Leung Kam-song from being maverick again.
Some time after his resignation, Liang Jinsong returned to his family, usually too busy with official duties, did not have much time to spend with his family and children, and felt very guilty.
During the lows of that time, it was his wife and family that gave him strength, and he also regained his strength.
In order to let children feel the importance of family education, Fu Mingxia often asked Liang Jinsong to participate in children's practical activities during that time.
With the company of their parents, their daughters have become very happy in the process of growing up.
Every time she talks about her daughter, Liang Jinsong always proudly says that her daughter is more like her mother, because she has been very lively since she was a child and naturally loves to play with water.
Liang Jinsong and his wife
In 2007, Liang Jinsong, who was more than half a hundred years old, joined the chairman of Blackstone Group's Greater China region, and after returning to the financial world, he once again regained his motivation and continued to maintain his original heart.
In 2021, Liang Jinsong became an independent director of China Construction Bank, and he is still active in the financial sector, playing his own value.
Excellent people can shine everywhere, as long as they have a sense of responsibility to the motherland and society, and can work hard in their own positions, they will play an outstanding contribution.