He is the son of the "Gang Leader", the apprentice of the "gambling saint" Yip Han, the head horse of Stanley Ho, and the founder of Macau's "Stacked Horse Boy";
He made his debut in the casino Las Vegas, and after returning to Macau, the performance of Stanley Ho's gambling hall soared by more than 20 times, and he has been in the gambling industry in Macau for more than 40 years.
He is Stanley Ho's "Wisdom Star", one of the "troikas", Chow Kam Fai.
Chow was born in Hong Kong in 1950 and his ancestral home is in Shunde, Guangdong. His mother, Lin Feng'e, was originally a wealthy family in Macau, and later married Chow Kam Fai's father, a young master from a famous family.
Later, Lin Feng'e followed her husband to Hong Kong to develop real estate, and her career was thriving.
At that time, they lived in a villa on Macdonald Road, and all this time lived in this area by the richest and most powerful people in Hong Kong, gambling king Stanley Ho came from a famous family, and it was in this area that he lived in a garden house when he was a child.
In other words, Zhou Jinhui's origin is much higher than that of ordinary people, and perhaps many people can achieve the dream life through a lifetime of struggle, but in his opinion, this is just a starting point.
The reason why Zhou Jinhui can rise to prominence in the future is inseparable from the cultivation of his mother, this strong woman known as "Sister E" in the market.
Chow was born into a wealthy family, but his father died early, leaving his mother, Lin Feng'e, to raise her six children alone. When he was a child, in addition to six children, there were three children in the foster care of relatives.
Lin Feng'e is a widow, while having to take care of her husband's career, but also have to take care of nine children, it is really not easy, and because of this, in later interviews, Zhou Jinhui often jokingly called her mother a "gang leader".
Although there are nine children in the family and life is noisy, Lin Feng'e not only arranges everything in the family, but also takes care of the business left by her husband more prosperously.
Mrs. Lam worked with Fok Ying Tung to develop properties in her early years, and the "Fung Ming Building" in Causeway Bay was a project they developed together in their early years.
In the fifties, Lin Feng'e bought a Mercedes-Benz car, which was the first Mercedes-Benz car in Hong Kong, and it was not something that could be bought purely with money.
It is not difficult to see that Lin Feng'e has a very good set of social relations and business operations, far better than many men.
It's really amazing that a woman can do this.
For the family, Lin Feng'e attaches great importance to the cultivation of children, and all six children were sent by her to study in the "Salesian" school. At that time, "Salesian" was an aristocratic school, and from this school came many celebrities in business and political circles.
In this school, even if the academic performance is poor, it will not be bad to go out of society in the future, because here you can make some people with background and energy, that is, you can form a small group at a very young age, which is of great help to the society in the future.
Lin Feng'e has a wide range of connections, including He Hongshen's original wife Li Wanhua, the third room Chen Wanzhen, and Fok Yingdong's second wife Feng Jianni. At that time, Chen Wanzhen was able to become the third aunt of the gambling king from a small nurse, and Lin Feng'e contributed a lot.
At the end of the sixties, for various reasons, Carrie Lam brought her family to Macao to develop.
With the help of Fok Yingdong and Lai Yuen Wah, Lin Feng'e came to work in a gambling hall in Macau, when she worked under the "gambling saint" Ye Han. Also because of his mother, Zhou Jinhui became Ye Han's apprentice.
In the 70s, Zhou Jinhui, who was in his twenties, wanted to see the outside world, so he went to the United States to study, often master Ye Han mixed in the casino Las Vegas, learned a skill, and debuted in Las Vegas.
Speaking of "gambling", Ye Han's gambling skills can be described as unmatched, he began to contact "gambling" when he was more than ten years old, wandered in major gambling stalls, was once the "old gambling king" Fu Laorong gambling hall as the finale dealer, one hand of dice kung fu is extremely strong, once for Fu Laorong to fight off the "listening to the dice gang".
But Ye Han's strongest is not gambling skills, but "people-reading skills".
The best thing Zhou Jinhui learned in Ye Han's hands was this "art of reading people", which also laid the foundation for him to break into the rivers and lakes.
Just like some people, wearing shorts, white vests and a pair of flip-flops, eating coarse tea and light rice, looking very ordinary and even corny, but in fact, they have dozens of houses on hand to collect rent, and there are luxury cars with drivers; There were others who were well-dressed in front of people, looking like a rich young master, but they didn't even have a steel plutonium on hand.
With his extraordinary "ability to recognize people", Zhou Jinhui can recognize at a glance whether the other party is a real material or a silver-like spearhead.
While Chow was still studying overseas, his mother, Carrie Lam, was booming in Macau. At first, Lin Feng'e worked under Ye Han, but Ye Han was squeezed out of Macau by Stanley Ho, and Lin Feng'e chose to stay in Macau, which became why Hung Shen played again.
Later, Ye Han and Stanley Ho had constant friction, and once Ye Han brought the underworld forces of Baodao, Stanley Ho couldn't get it for a while, Lin Feng'e asked Stanley to come out, and it was settled at once. In return, Stanley Ho handed over many of the properties he had to Lam Fung-nge to manage.
In this way, Chow Kam Fai learned all his skills and returned to Macau to help under Lam Feng'e.
As soon as Chow returned to Macau, he found that there was still a lot of room for development in Macau's gambling industry, so he talked to Stanley Ho about his experience when working in Las Vegas.
Stanley Ho had a good impression of him, and soon let Zhou Jinhui start to take care of the gambling hall for himself, of course, this is more or less because Zhou Jinhui is Lin Feng'e's son.
However, Zhou Jinhui did not live up to the expectations of Stanley Ho and Lin Feng'e, and under his operation, the gambling hall skyrocketed from the original turnover of only 200 million to 4 billion, which suddenly increased by more than 20 times, which is equivalent to doing one month to top the original one and a half years!
Chow Kam Fai's extraordinary performance surprised everyone, and everyone was curious about how he did it.
It turned out that Chow Kam Fai found that most of the customers in the Macau gambling hall were from local people, people from the surrounding areas and some tourists, which means that the radiation range was very narrow. In order to break this impasse, Zhou Jinhui turned passive into proactive.
He often travels to Southeast Asia and South America, using his connections to attract more people to Macau, and by the way, he drives his gambling hall. Seeing the surge in performance, Chow Jinhui also opened a cruise company, mainly to pick up Southeast Asian customers to play in Macau.
In this way, the initiative to attract customers to Macau, the turnover of the gambling hall has been greatly improved. This is actually the prototype of today's "Stacked Horse Boy", so it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhou Jinhui is the ancestor of "Stacked Horse Boy".
It's like a small supermarket, the people who can buy things in the supermarket are mainly people within three or five kilometers, but if they sell things on the Internet, it is different, and the radiation range has become all over the country, which is actually the same reason.
While the turnover of gambling halls is getting higher and higher, it also represents that Chow Jinhui's approach is correct.
Mother Lin Feng'e is proud of her son's success, so Lin Feng'e proposed the "stacking horse system" and the "mud code system".
The "stacking horse system" is that the middleman brings gamblers to the gambling hall and earns the intermediate commission, which can get about 40% of the turnover, which was introduced in the previous article, but it will not be specifically introduced here.
Before the "mud code system", Macao's chips were common to all gambling halls, which were called "cash codes".
In 1988, Stanley Ho adopted Carrie Lam's proposal to reform the gambling industry in Macau. At this time, Zhou Jinhui and "Feizaiqiang" Li Zhiqiang and Su Shuhui were known as one of the "troikas" under the gambling throne.
Because of his resourcefulness, Zhou Jinhui has the nickname "Wise Star".
The birth of the "stacking horse system", in which the huge interests aroused the enthusiasm of Macao's underworld, and the rivers and lakes began many years of chaos.
It was at that time that the broken tooth broke a bloody road, knocked everyone away, and became the "godfather of Macao and Portugal".
However, in all the gambling halls managed by Zhou Jinhui, no one dares to make trouble, but whenever someone comes to make a scene, as long as Zhou Jinhui stands up, the other party will retreat in spite of the difficulties, which shows that he also has a lot of influence in the rivers and lakes.
In the late nineties, Chow tested his ability under Stanley Ho and started his business.
Together with his mother Lin Feng'e, together with Fei Ziqiang, he entered the real estate field, built Macau Land Plaza in 1997, opened his own gambling hall, "Legend Hall", in 1999, and then invested in land in Hengqin.
Zhou Jinhui is witty, and "Feizaiqiang" has a wide network of contacts, and his mother Lin Feng'e is an experienced person, and it is difficult not to succeed in her career.
As Chow's career grew, he did not forget that Stanley Ho was promoted to him, and in 2002, Chow Kam-fai sold a large part of the shares of Macau Land Plaza to Stanley Ho, and Stanley Ho directly accounted for 53% of the shares, which gave the gambling king full face.
It has to be said that Macao at that time had close ties with Stanley Ho's industry, and if he wanted to continue to make money, Chow Kam Fai could not do without Stanley Ho.
Chow Kam Fai co-founded the "Fisherman's Wharf" with gambling king in 2005, with a huge investment of 1.85 billion, which has greatly promoted Macao's tourism industry, and it is said that when it opened, it was crowded with people.
In 2007, Zhou Jinhui built the Legend Hotel, a five-star hotel with a total investment of 2.2 billion yuan, in the imperial capital. During the Olympics the following year, Zhou Jinhui also used it for public welfare, giving away the hotel to the Olympic Committee free of charge.
During the Sichuan earthquake, Chow Kam-fai and Stanley Ho jointly established the "Sichuan-Macao One Heart" Foundation, which led the response and Macao tycoons responded by donating more than 60 million yuan to the affected areas.
In 2012, Zhou Jinhui embarked on his own entrepreneurial road. His company, which includes Landmark Building and Fisherman's Wharf, bought an equity interest in The Landmark from Stanley Ho before the public offering and left it to Stanley Ho's three-room wife, Chan Yuen Ching.
This made Stanley Ho suddenly rich more than a billion yuan and became an ally of the three families, and Zhou Jinhui and his mother "Sister E" are also the largest shareholders. At one time, everyone was making money, and everyone was happy.
In addition, it invested in an environmental protection company in Anhui Province, Lijun Pangdu in Zhuhai, which claims to have invested more than one billion yuan in large-scale comprehensive shopping malls. Legend hotels and fishermen's wharves are located all over China.
He also bought casinos in Laos, and there were rumors that he would invest in many of Africa's small countries of Cape Verde, and local residents even called him "the rich man of Africa."
Zhou Jinhui naturally had enemies before. Wynn resigned in 2018 after a decades-long scandal, and Zhou Jinhui "fell into the well", severely punished the matter, and proposed to Wynn's card game.
The last card in Stanley Ho's hand was withdrawn in 2002 and then divided into three parts, two of which were "Sands" and "Wynn".
As an Australian, Chow hates these two rivals, and he once tried to stop "Wynn" and "Golden Sands", because with their joining, the originally stable situation will definitely change.
Wynn's boss, known as the king of Las Vegas, and Zhou Jinhui is also an old acquaintance, and he used quite "dirty" tricks at the beginning, claiming that Zhou Jinhui lost tens of millions of dollars when he was in Las Vegas. Zhou Jinhui did not answer, the facts are in front of him, whether it is true or not, Zhou Jinhui does not care about this little money. Wynn's boss saw that Zhou Jinhui did not respond, so he made a big deal and went to court.
The owner of the golden sand is even more simple, when the fishermen's pier was built, he regarded people as hooligans, and later incited public opinion, made a fuss about things, and was finally suppressed by "He Dafo" and others.
Perhaps because of the downturn in the gambling industry or the fact that he was old and wanted to retire, Chow sold the Land Building in 2017 and earned 4.6 billion; In September this year, RideJun Group reduced its stake from nearly 30% to 10%, and this 20% stake was acquired by An Yixuan's husband Chen Ronglian, giving Chow Jinhui HK$1.344 billion in funding.
Chen Ronglian is from Jinjiang, Fujian, and can be described as the limelight in Macau in recent years, backed by Lui Zhihe, who is backed by the Galaxy, and his power is not much worse than that of washing rice.
Now Zhou Jinhui, like her mother "Sister E", is doing public welfare undertakings, and also said that he will embark on the green road with his children.
Recalling Zhou Jinhui's past, everything went smoothly except for the loss of his father, even his mother "Sister E". At the end of the day, he is also a smart person who does everything for a "win-win".