As Asia's financial center, Hong Kong is home to many of the world's most successful business families. Among them, the Zheng family series is undoubtedly the most eye-catching, known as the richest man in the opening of the port.
This century-old family has been at its peak in recent years.
In fact, the glory of the Zheng family dates back more than 150 years. In the 40s of the 19th century, Zheng Xian moved to Hong Kong from Shanwei County, Guangdong Province, and made a living by transporting timber by sand boats.
His son Zheng Xu expanded his business into the real estate field for the first time. When it comes to Zheng Yutong's generation, it is even more businesses boom. With her business acumen and decision-making skills, Cheng Yu-Tung has expanded her family business into retail, hospitality, media and other sectors.
Today, the Cheng Group has total assets of hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars, owns a number of listed companies, and is recognized as the first of the four major families in Hong Kong.
Unlike other families, the Cheng family's excellence lies not only in the wealth of assets, but also in the continuity of their generations. Three generations of successors, including Zheng Zhigang and Zheng Zhiwen, have received top-notch education and have many years of experience in the workplace, which is enough to be competent for important tasks.
Among them, Adrian Cheng opened up the international market and was rated as the most powerful new generation leader in Asia by the international media; Zheng Zhiwen is a model of a cutting-edge strong woman. It can be seen that the Zheng family's harmonious family style is inseparable from the rise and fall of the dynasty.
Looking ahead, under the leadership of Adrian Cheng and Cheng Chi-Man, the Cheng Kingdom will continue to shine in the business world. Of course, whether the younger generation such as Zheng Jiacheng can make a perfect relay has also attracted much attention.
But with the Zheng family's family education and background, he is absolutely confident in facing all possible storms.
As the successor of the new generation, Adrian Cheng is undoubtedly the core figure of the entire Zheng Family Group. But he is different from the tradition of ordinary wealthy families, and there is no such overwhelming lace news at all.
On the contrary, it is like a success textbook, in an orderly manner, step by step, and finally sits firmly in the head of the group.
In fact, Adrian Cheng's education and growth trajectory since he was a child is quite unique. Grandpa Zheng Yutong did not train him as the only successor, but gave him full autonomy.
Adrian Cheng has studied Xi literature and art at top universities in the United States, and then traveled to European countries to recharge. In the process, he has seen a lot of things and has his own unique understanding of international trends and artistic frontiers.
This laid the foundation for him to create a unique business model in the future.
In 2009, Adrian Cheng officially returned to China to join the Cheng Group, and soon made a name for himself. His world's first art shopping gallery, K11, has caused a sensation in all walks of life, and is considered to have created a new experience of luxury shopping, heralding the rejuvenation of the Cheng family kingdom in a new era.
In fact, after Zheng Zhigang took over, the performance of Zheng Group also continued to grow rapidly, and the stock price continued to reach new highs. As a result, the outside world's expectations for this cutting-edge successor are even more inflated.
As successful as his career is, Adrian Cheng's marriage is equally legendary. His encounter with Yu Yaying is devoid of all the calculations of traditional marriage, and is purely due to emotional mutual attraction.
The two have the same personality and interests, and they are both career-oriented people, so the emotional foundation is extremely solid. Zheng Zhigang did not fall into the stereotype of a wealthy son, and continued to work hard to manage his own industrial territory.
When we talk about the Cheng family, the first image that comes to mind is usually a male head like Cheng Yu-Tung or Adrian Cheng. But in reality, female members also played an important role in the functioning of the Zheng kingdom.
Among them, the most outstanding is the little daughter Zheng Zhiwen, a model of a strong woman in the business world in the true sense.
Zheng Zhiwen was born in a red family, but she did not become a captive of a luxurious life. Showing amazing diligence and perseverance from an early age, she left her family at the age of 14 to go to the United States for a grueling boarding school training.
During college, she studied a boring major in applied mathematics, with the aim of enhancing her logical thinking skills.
If you put it in the ordinary people's house, this is already an extraordinary life course. But it is far from enough for the daughter of the Zheng family. In the five years since graduating from university, Cheng has continued to hone her skills at two top investment banks.
This provided her with a valuable foundation for her future career in the business world. In 2008, Zheng Zhiwen officially joined the Zheng Group and soon made a name for herself in the hotel sector.
Facts have proved that Zheng Zhiwen's decisiveness and foresight have completely inherited the style of her grandfather Zheng Yutong. She has made bold acquisitions of a number of well-known hotel brands, while actively exploring the mainland market, and her performance has grown rapidly.
Today, Cheng is not only at the helm of the Cheng family's hotel business, but also one of the most influential women in Asia by an international business magazine.
From Zheng Zhiwen's growth footprints, it is not difficult to find that the real daughter of a wealthy family is not as ignorant of the world as portrayed in novels, film and television works, and only enjoys. They can also rely on their own strength to take their place in society.
This undoubtedly provides a new perspective to re-examine the stereotypes of traditional elite families.
When we see the love stories of the descendants of wealthy families in movies and television or texts, all kinds of stereotypes often come to mind: a fair-skinned and beautiful daughter, a handsome and golden son, a candlelight dinner, and a vow...... However, in fact, the concept of marriage and love of real hundreds of millions of family members is more open and down-to-earth than we imagined.
Taking the young people of the Zheng family as an example, their marriage proposal process was quite dramatic, completely subverting the marriage model of wealthy families in people's minds. Of course, perhaps it is because they do not need to be bound by the wrong ideas of the outside world, so they dare to show themselves boldly.
Let's take a look at the story of Zheng Zhiwen and Pang Jianyi. Pang Jianyi is a descendant of a solid steel family, and the two can be said to be a match made in heaven. But Pang Jianyi's marriage proposal plan is full of improvisation and fun.
His carefully selected diamond engagement ring was eventually eaten by a puppy, and Zheng Zhiwen nodded in a hurry, adding a strange twist to the golden pairing.
Similar cases are not uncommon in the Zheng family. Zheng Zhigang's first gift to his girlfriend was just a pack of cheap snacks, without the coldness of a wealthy son. It can be seen that the emotional world of these young masters and daughters of the new generation is more simple and natural than we imagined.
They are not imprisoned by family fame, and they dare to pursue true love as they want, and they have a happy marriage, which is really admirable.
There is also a mysterious figure in the Zheng family group that is closely watched, that is, Cheng Zhigang's uncle, Cheng Yutong's eldest son Cheng Ka-shing. Unlike his siblings, he has kept a low profile and rarely appears in the public eye.
But we have reason to believe that his every move will have a profound impact on the pattern of the Zheng Kingdom.
At present, there is very limited information about Cheng Kar-shing. We only know that one of his ex-girlfriends, Wang Yingyu, later married his nephew Cheng Kar-chun and gave birth to two illegitimate children, causing an uproar.
So is the Zheng family's marriage and love history also full of plots? Has his relationship with Wang Yingyu broken down now? All this makes the outside world full of curiosity.
On the other hand, Cheng Kar-shing's actions in the business world are also worth paying attention to. Compared to his siblings' high positions, his low profile may be more conducive to ambition. We do not rule out that Cheng Kar-shing will rise at a critical juncture and shake the existing power structure of the Cheng Group.
Of course, it is also possible that he has already moved out and built a new business empire on his own. But in any case, this mysterious "dark horse" of the Zheng family will surely attract attention.
To sum up, we have every reason to believe that in the future, we will frequently see Cheng Kar-shing's speculative news on the headlines. What kind of variables will he add to the Zheng Kingdom?