Recently, a Hong Kong media released a 44-year-old "diving queen" Fu Mingxia shopping photo, with the caption under the photo: "Fu Mingxia's figure is completely out of shape, and her belly is slightly bulging, which makes people suspect that she is pregnant for the fourth time." ”
The "diving queen" married into a Hong Kong giant, and the combination of Fu Mingxia and Leung Kam Song has never lacked topics.
"Diving Queen" first met Liang Jinsong
In this society, it is not uncommon for female sports stars to marry into wealthy families. Zhang Yining, Li Jiawei, Yan Zi, Guo Jingjing, these female stars all married into wealthy families after retiring from the army and transformed into world-famous rich wives. Among all female stars, Fu Mingxia can be regarded as the first batch of "crab-eating".
As one of China's most talented divers, in 1991, at the age of 13, Fu Mingxia won the title of the women's 10-meter platform at the sixth World Championships, becoming the youngest world champion and being included in the Guinness Book of World Records.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 14-year-old Fu Mingxia won the 10-meter platform championship, becoming the youngest champion in Olympic history.
In 1996, Fu Mingxia won the double platform championship at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming the second person to win the diving championship after Gao Min, and the only Chinese female athlete who can win the gold medal in the "platform" in one Olympic Games.
In 2000, he returned to participate in the 27th Sydney Olympic Games, winning the 3-meter springboard single championship and the double runner-up.
After the Sydney Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia was invited to attend the annual Hong Kong Outstanding Leaders Award Ceremony on March 1, 2001, and served as the award presenter of the ceremony.
While waiting for the award in the audience, a middle-aged man sitting next to Fu Mingxia saw that Fu Mingxia was a little bored, so he took out an electronic notepad and handed it to Fu Mingxia's hand, allowing Fu Mingxia to play a small game stored in the electronic notepad.
Fu Mingxia, who has no opponent on the field, is a layman for video games. After trying many times, I couldn't even pass the most basic first few levels. The middle-aged man taught Fu Mingxia hand-in-hand, and finally let her pass several levels in a row.
Fu Mingxia's first impression of this middle-aged man was: "He is an interesting person, and his attitude is very friendly, and Mandarin is good, better than the average Hong Kong person." ”
After the award ceremony, the middle-aged man handed Fu Mingxia a business card with his name written on it: "Liang Jinsong".
Hong Kong financial wizard
Leung was born in 1952 in an ordinary family in Hong Kong, with a total of 9 brothers and sisters, and he is the third oldest.
In 1965, at the age of 13, Leung Kam-song was admitted to the prestigious Yinghua College in Hong Kong with excellent results, and a few years later, he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong——— the highest university in Hong Kong, as the champion of liberal arts in the Hong Kong college entrance examination.
During his university years, Leung Kam Song demonstrated extraordinary organizational and leadership skills in addition to academic excellence. After being elected president of the HKU Student Union, he advocated the root-finding movement on campus, used his summer vacation to lead students to the mainland to pursue the cultural bloodline of Hong Kong and the motherland, and organized students to visit Jinggangshan.
In Jinggangshan, he visited the former residence of Mao Zedong in Ciping, the former site of the Dajing Red Army Headquarters, and the Huangyangjie outpost, and bought a set of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" there, determined to become a person who devoted his life to serving the people and serving the motherland like Mao Zedong.
During his studies at HKU, Leung Kam-song was also selected by the father of the first Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the late Hong Kong ship king Tung Ho-yun, to participate in the "Maritime School" founded by Tung Ho-yun and boarded Tung Ho-yun's cruise ship around the world. This trip greatly broadened Leung's horizons and formed a deep friendship with the young Tung Chee-hwa.
After graduating from HKU, Leung joined Citibank Hong Kong Branch and became a financial practitioner. Soon Leung Kam Song showed his talent and became a trader in charge of foreign exchange trading at Citibank, making a lot of money for Citibank.
In 1982, as a key training target of Citibank, Leung Kam Song was sent to Harvard University for further study by the bank for one year, and successively held key positions in branches in New York, Singapore, Manila and other places, in charge of real estate, trade finance, foreign exchange and stock trading.
In 1992, Leung was promoted to President of Citibank Hong Kong. Four years later, Citibank invited him to New York to become the vice chairman of the head office of Citibank, but Leung Kam Song did not want to immigrate to the United States, so he refused the conditions offered by Citibank and decided to stay in Hong Kong.
After leaving Citibank, Leung moved to Chase Bank and became Managing Director of Chase Greater China and the Philippines. In 2000, Leung was promoted to Chairman of JPMorgan Chase Bank Asia Pacific.
In addition to his outstanding achievements in the banking industry, Leung has also served as a member of the Executive Council, Chairman of the Education Advisory Management Committee, Member of the Preparatory Committee of the Special Administrative Region, Chairman of the Education Co-ordination Committee, etc., and has also made many achievements in social services.
When he was chairman of the University Grants Committee, he proposed to reform the university funding system and allocate it according to the resources and potential of the college, which aroused strong repercussions in the academic community. Later, he launched the "Consultation Paper on Education Goals", which vigorously promoted a series of educational reforms in Hong Kong, which caused a sensation in the Hong Kong academic community.
Appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
On 2 May 2001, nominated by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Leung Kam-chung was appointed Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, becoming another "treasurer" in Hong Kong after Donald Tsang. To this end, Leung Kam Song resigned as chairman of JPMorgan Chase Bank, which earned more than HK$23 million a year.
In terms of income, Hong Kong's financial secretary, who earns only 2.45 million Hong Kong dollars a year, and J.P. Morgan's Asia-Pacific chairman, who earns more than 23 million a year, Leung Kam Song has shrunk by nearly 90% in his annual salary alone.
A reporter once asked him how he felt after his income plummeted, and Liang Jinsong replied: "The money that a person spends is limited, and I believe in a saying, 'The money earned is not yours, the money spent is yours'." You don't spend a lot of money on one person, so money is never a consideration for me! ”
After becoming Hong Kong's financial secretary, some people have asked whether Leung Kam-song, who has worked for US banks for more than 20 years and is now the financial secretary, will give too much consideration to the interests of the United States when handling Hong Kong's financial policy.
In response, Leung Kam-song said: The SAR government has a good interest declaration system, and when formulating major policies, the interests of all parties must be taken into account, and the public must be consulted, so it will be quite transparent when making decisions, and it is impossible for it to have the final say.
Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa also trusted Leung Kum-song very much. In appointing Leung Kam-song as Financial Secretary, Tung Chee-hwa pointed out that Leung Kam-song has worked in international banks for decades, has a wealth of professional knowledge and outstanding talents, and appointed him as Financial Secretary in view of Hong Kong's two major challenges of global economic integration and the development of the new economy, as well as the development of the financial industry, online stock market and e-commerce in the 21st century.
After taking office, Leung Kam-song will have to deal with the deterioration of the overall global economic environment and the legacy of the Hong Kong government's budget. What he needs to do is how to lead Hong Kong out of economic difficulties as soon as possible.
After coming to power, Leung adopted the "three-step song" to promote the recovery of Hong Kong's economy. These include continuing to reaffirm Hong Kong's determination to revitalize its economy, promoting Hong Kong as the best place to live and do business in Asia, stimulating local and visitor spending with a variety of activities, and tapping into China's vast market.
At the same time, on the one hand, Hong Kong is clearly positioned as an international financial center and Asian business and trade center, and strengthens its integration with the mainland economy, becoming one of the most important cities in the Greater South China Economic Circle. On the other hand, the development of tourism and the local economy will create more employment opportunities for low-educated and low-skilled workers.
Leung Kam-song said that after China's accession to the WTO, Chinese mainland's import and export trade will continue to expand, and Hong Kong, as a Chinese mainland logistics center, will surely benefit from it, Hong Kong will further play the role of "China's Manhattan", and its advantages as a business center, financial center, information center, shipping center and logistics center will be fully utilized.
"I believe that within 20 years, China will become the second largest economic power. If the mainland is good, Hong Kong must be good! ”
Hard-won love
After meeting Leung Kam-song at the 2001 Hong Kong Outstanding Leaders Awards Ceremony, Fu Mingxia returned to the Department of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University for further study. And Liang Jinsong often took advantage of business trips to Beijing to visit Fu Mingxia at Tsinghua University.
Although Liang Jinsong likes Fu Mingxia very much, he is also worried that he and her are too different in age, and he has been married again, Fu Mingxia will not look at him. Who knows that Fu Mingxia believes that love is important fate, as long as the two truly love each other, there is no age barrier.
In this way, the relationship between the two year-old lovers gradually warmed up unconsciously.
A friend once advised Fu Mingxia to think clearly, and Fu Mingxia said firmly: "I have never felt that there is an age gap between the two of us. In short, I will cherish this relationship.
I only hope that all friends who care about and like me can love and help me as always, give me a peaceful space to study and live, and protect me to continue this relationship well. ”
After the relationship between the two became public, Fu Mingxia once became the focus of media tracking, and even her license plate number "Beijing CL777" became a legend on the streets. Some people say that Liang Jinsong deliberately chose this license plate number, the "L" character on the plate number represents Love (love), and the 7 is homophonic with "wife", so it is connected together, it is the "love wife" number given by the Hong Kong "God of Wealth" to his girlfriend Fu Mingxia!
During the summer vacation of 2001, Fu Mingxia returned to her hometown in Wuhan and boldly told her parents that she was in love with Liang Jinsong. When Fu Mingxia's father, Fu Yijun, heard the news, he jumped up all of a sudden.
Fu Yijun knew that Liang Jinsong was a divorced 49-year-old man, much older than his own daughter, so he resolutely opposed his daughter to associate with Liang Jinsong, otherwise he would not recognize Fu Mingxia's daughter.
Fu Mingxia also knew that it would be difficult for her parents to accept this relationship for a while, so she pretended to agree to break up with Liang Jinsong, but in fact she still secretly interacted with Liang Jinsong.
One day in July 2002, Fu Mingxia suddenly told her parents that she had gone through the marriage formalities with Liang Jinsong and was about to hold a wedding in Hong Kong. Although Fu Yijun and his wife are very unhappy, what can they do in the face of their precious daughter's choice?
On the day of Fu Mingxia and Liang Jinsong's wedding, Fu Yijun and his wife flew to Hong Kong to attend their daughter's wedding for the sake of their daughter's face. It's just that looking at this "old son-in-law" who is not a few years younger than himself, Fu Yijun is full of worries: Will his daughter be happy after marrying him?
After the wedding in Hong Kong, Fu Mingxia flew to Wuhan with Liang Jinsong and hosted a banquet with her mother's relatives and friends on the mainland at the Oriental Hotel in Wuhan.
According to people who attended the wedding banquet, Liang Jinsong was red and refreshed that day, wearing a straight black suit, he looked much younger than his actual age.
And Fu Mingxia, who was wearing casual clothes, snuggled beside Liang Jinsong like a bird, and showed the happiness of a "little woman"...
Leung Kam Song prepared a 12-course abalone dinner for relatives and friends attending the wedding banquet, the main course was a large lobster flown in, and the wine was also specially brought from Hong Kong, and the cost of each table was 24,000 Hong Kong dollars. Some people saw Leung Kam-song take out his credit card and settle the bill very dashingly, and all his gestures revealed the luxurious style of this Hong Kong "rich man".
Fu Mingxia, who concentrated on her husband and godson after marriage
After marriage, Fu Mingxia moved into Leung Kam Song's Mid-Levels villa in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. At the beginning of 2003, the birth of the eldest daughter Liang Siyu made the two even more happy, and since then, taking care of their daughter has become the most important job of Liang Jinsong and Fu Mingxia.
On March 30, 2004, CCTV released for the first time a clip of the daily family life of Fu Mingxia and her daughter.
CCTV reported that "a vigorous marriage with Hong Kong Financial Secretary Leung Kam-song became a curtain call for Fu Mingxia to bid farewell to the public, and now the villa apartment in Repulse Bay has become a "barrier" for her to avoid the public eye."
Now, when her daughter is nearly 1 and a half years old, Fu Mingxia not only wore a bachelor's cap at Tsinghua, but also was 3 months pregnant. ”
In the face of the CCTV interview, Fu Mingxia smiled and introduced her baby daughter Liang Siyu to the audience and said: "I feel that Liang Siyu is not like me, more like her father, because she likes books very much, which is like her father." Liang Jinsong next to him quickly corrected: "No, no, no, my daughter is like her mother, she especially likes water!" ”
After marrying Liang Jinsong, Fu Mingxia gave birth to a daughter and two sons for the Liang family one after another. The eldest daughter, Liang Siyu, was named a "Super Child Star" in Hong Kong in 2008, and interacted with British children as a representative of children in Hong Kong. People are very curious, as a world champion, how does Fu Mingxia, educate the children born in the wealthy family, why are the children so obedient and promising?
For this problem, Fu Mingxia also admitted frankly: Like many ordinary mothers, she has encountered some confusion in the education of her children.
In February 2003, after the birth of her eldest daughter Liang Siyu, Fu Mingxia, who was a new mother, was determined to shape her daughter into a real famous girl.
When Liang Siyu was more than a year old, Fu Mingxia hired two tutors with a monthly honorarium of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, one to teach Chinese and the other to teach English.
Liang Jinsong has a negative attitude towards this, and advises his wife not to rush: "Children's nature is to play, children receive systematic education too early, and it is easy to get bored with learning in the future." Although Fu Mingxia was dubious about her husband's views, she still gave in.
Fu Mingxia was determined not to hire a tutor and teach her daughter to read.
Xiao Siyu is also very intelligent, and soon knows a lot of Chinese characters. Fu Mingxia was greatly encouraged and decided to send her daughter to the best kindergarten. Kindergartens in Hong Kong do not accept children under the age of 2, and Fu Mingxia asks the principal every day to grind hard. The director had no choice, so he reluctantly agreed to accept it.
After all, Si Yu is too young and is always bullied by other children in kindergarten, so he soon does not want to go to kindergarten. No matter how Fu Mingxia coaxed, she just refused to go. Fu Mingxia was angry and raised her hand to slap her daughter. Xiao Siyu cried and asked his father for help, for which Liang Jinsong and Fu Mingxia also had a dispute.
After this "family turmoil", Fu Mingxia transferred her daughter to the kindergarten with the best conditions and the highest fees in Hong Kong, and asked friends to help recommend 4 tutors to teach Xiaosi Yu Chinese, English, piano and etiquette.
Having to attend so many classes every day is really unbearable for two- or three-year-old Liang Siyu. So as soon as the class started, Xiao Siyu cried and made trouble. Whenever this happened, Fu Mingxia used her mother's "authority" to force her daughter to learn.
Half a year later, Fu Mingxia's "high-pressure policy" really had some effect, Xiao Siyu learned a lot of English, and played the piano decently, which made Fu Mingxia very proud.
One day, Xiao Siyu's teacher reported to Fu Mingxia: Liang Siyu was very unsocial in the kindergarten and often quarreled with other children. Fu Mingxia was very surprised, but her daughter told her justifiably: "Didn't you let me be a literate child?" The other children will not do anything, I look down on them and don't want to play with them! ”
No matter how Fu Mingxia explained, Xiao Siyu just couldn't listen to it.
One day not long after, Leung organized a family party at home. In order to "show off" in front of people, Fu Mingxia specially asked the teacher to teach her daughter a famous piano song "Cherry Blossoms", ready to let her perform well. Unexpectedly, not long after the guests arrived that night, Xiao Siyu quarreled with the guests' children, refused to play, and the piano performance had to be canceled.
After the guests left, Fu Mingxia asked her daughter what was going on, and Xiao Siyu said nonchalantly: "I hate those children, I don't welcome them to our house!" ”
At this time, Fu Mingxia realized that the problem was serious and asked a psychologist for help. The doctor told her: "Because Si Yu has received various training for a long time, he has no time to play with children of the same age, so he will not get along with other children. In the long run, she will not only become more and more withdrawn, but may also suffer from autism. ”
Fu Mingxia was very scared after hearing this, so she stopped her daughter's tutoring classes, and specially set every Friday as her daughter's party day, inviting her daughter's classmates to play at home, or taking the children to camp and picnic on the beach.
When Liang Jinsong is not busy, Fu Mingxia will also pull her husband with her. Liang Siyu is of course happy to be able to play with her parents, and after a while, she also learned how to get along with other children.
In July 2003, Leung Kam-song resigned as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong and joined Blackstone Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms, as Chairman and Senior Managing Director of Greater China.
Blackstone is the largest publicly traded investment management firm in the United States, headquartered in New York, and a world-renowned top investment firm. Its businesses include corporate private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds, hedge fund funds, senior debt funds, private hedge funds and closed-end mutual funds.
After joining Blackstone Group, Leung Kam Song established New Frontier Group. It is a diversified investment group based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with a portfolio of healthcare, innovation and education.
On July 30, 2019, New Frontier Space, a subsidiary of New Frontier Group, passed and signed a definitive acquisition agreement with United Family Healthcare Group, one of the largest comprehensive high-end private medical institutions in China.
Upon completion of the transaction, the new company will operate under the New Frontier Spatial brand and will be listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "NFH," with an estimated initial fully diluted enterprise value of $1.44 billion.
Commenting on the transaction, Leung said, "Healthcare has always been an important strategic focus for New Frontier. Our goal is to continue to build and develop an integrated healthcare platform in China to provide patients and families with high-quality, reliable healthcare services covering the full life cycle.
We are very excited to start a new chapter for UFH, and we are confident that the NFF team will become a strong strategic partner of UFH with its rich operational and investment experience in the Chinese market." ”
As one of the most successful managers in banking, Leung has long since entered the ranks of billionaires. According to some statistics, in terms of real estate alone, Leung Kam Song owns eight properties around the world, including two villas with a total value of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars in the wealthy area of Hong Kong.
Although the news about Fu Mingxia's pregnancy again has not been confirmed, whether she wants to have four children or not, we should wish this happy "diving queen"!
Resources:
Sina Finance: "New Frontier to acquire United Family Healthcare, Liang Jinsong as Chairman"
Huang Ren: "Hong Kong's "Rich Master" Leung Kam Chung"