"If the full score of life is a hundred, then I will give myself more than a hundred points."
Before his death, Huo Yingdong summed up his life, so self-evaluation.
This generation of grandmasters, who was born with the sea breeze of Hong Kong, finally passed away, leaving a legendary life for future generations to remember.
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On October 28, 2006, Mr. Fok Ying Tung, the founder of Huo's business empire, died in Beijing at the age of 84.
In accordance with his family's wishes, Fok Yingdong's body was transported back to Hong Kong for burial.
On November 7, the coffin of Mr. Fok Ying Tung was placed here at the Hong Kong Funeral Home.
The arrangement of the spiritual hall is elegant and solemn, and the perimeter of the coffin is also filled with wreaths sent by people from all walks of life, and the signatures on it include central leaders and celebrities from both political and business circles.
Flower signs are all over the inside and outside of the spiritual hall, and among the solemn whites, the most striking thing is the five-star red flag covered on the coffin.
Since the spiritual hall was properly arranged, there has been an endless stream of people who have come to mourn.
In addition to Fok Ying-tung's relatives, well-known people from all walks of life, such as Tang Yingnian, Chen Fang Ansheng, Run Run Shaw, Ho Hung Sun, Li Ka-shing, Tung Chee-hwa, etc. have all gone to the Spiritual Hall to send off and mourn.
At the end of the memorial service, there were ten people supporting the spirits, and the "gambling king" He Hongshen was impressively listed.
Fok Ying Tung and Stanley Ho have worked together to promote the development of Macao's economy.
After the death of Fok Yingdong, He Hongshen, who was already 80 years old, insisted on supporting the spirit despite his advanced age.
He said that Huo Lao was the most shrewd friend of his life, and the friendship between the two lasted for more than forty years and cooperated seamlessly.
The funeral procession marched forward in a mighty way, and Huo Qigang, as the eldest grandson, walked in the forefront holding the remains of Huo Yingdong in his hand.
The police car opened the road, the district flag was half lowered, and the chief executive supported the spirit, and this "national soldier is unmatched" completed the last journey of his life in such a beautiful way.
In Hong Kong, the funerals of the giants are a politics.
Looking at the political and business circles in Hong Kong, Fok Ying Tung is the first person who can cover the national flag on the coffin, and as for whether it is a person who has never come after, it is still unknown.
What kind of contribution did Fok Yingdong make to allow him to enjoy such a courtesy?
It is no exaggeration to say that without Fok Ying Tung, Hong Kong really would not be the Hong Kong of today.
The development of Chinese mainland is also inseparable from the full help of Huo Yingdong.
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Fok Yingdong came from a poor family, and what was even more bizarre was that he didn't know where he came from.
According to Fok Yingdong, the Huo family has lived on the water since his grandfather's generation, and Fok Yingdong was also born in a small boat on the dock.
The small cabin was the Huo family's shelter from the wind and rain.
Fok Ying-tung's childhood was extremely unfortunate.
When he was 7 years old, his father and two older brothers died one after another, leaving only the young Fok Ying Tung and his mother, as well as a 9-year-old sister and a 5-year-old sister.
Orphans and widows depend on each other, although the conditions are extremely difficult, but Fok Yingdong's mother is a remarkable woman.
She knew very well that reading was the only way to change her destiny.
As a result, Huo Yingdong was sent to school by his mother.
At that time, there was a free primary school to attend, but exams were required.
Huo Yingdong was very angry, passed the entrance examination with the first place, and began his reading career.
In 1936, at the age of 13, Fok Ying-tung was admitted to Huangren Middle School with excellent results.
Although this school is a secondary school, its teaching quality is not inferior to that of some universities.
Moreover, this school is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and many famous people have studied in this school, such as Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country, and Ho Hongshen, the "gambling king".
Huo Yingdong, who was born in the grassroots, was able to sit and read with many disciples of the family with his own strength.
In the year of preparing for the university entrance examination, the Iron Shoe of the Japanese invaders set foot on Chinese soil.
Classrooms were occupied, desks and chairs were destroyed, and Fok Yingdong had no choice but to leave the campus and enter the society.
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To shovel coal and hit iron was fired squid, went to the sugar factory and accidentally fried the laboratory, went to the warehouse to weigh the scales and was disliked by others, and the young Fok Yingdong was ruthlessly hit by society.
Just when he was frustrated, Huo Mu pointed out a path for him: to open a grocery store.
Fok Yingdong's talent for business was thus revealed.
Freight trading, auctioning of Japanese military relics, going out to sea to salvage sea people and grass, smuggling materials to the interior...
The young and promising Huo Yingdong broke out of the world with his indomitable fierceness and saved the first bucket of gold in his life for himself.
In 1953, Hong Kong real estate boomed, and the forward-looking Fok Ying Tung quickly entered the real estate industry.
In just two years, he has become one of the top ten real estate developers in Hong Kong with a capital of more than 10 million yuan.
All this is also due to the method of "selling house flowers" that he created.
Whether it was Hong Kong at that time or other countries in the world, buying a house was a one-handed payment and one-handed delivery.
However, the house prices of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars at any time are not all that everyone can take out at once.
In order to make ordinary people afford to buy a house, Fok Yingdong thought of a way: pay a part of the deposit first, and then pay the rest of the money in installments.
This is the so-called "selling house flowers", paying a deposit first to buy "flowers", waiting for the flowers to bear fruit, and then paying the balance, which is today: down payment plus installments.
This method is unique, and once it was introduced, it was admired by countless people.
For a time, there was an endless stream of people queuing up to buy a house, and the whole of Hong Kong seemed to go crazy.
The implementation of this method also inadvertently planted willows.
Prior to this, affected by the war, Hong Kong's manufacturing industry fell into a depression.
After Fok Yingdong's method of "selling house flowers" was introduced, many factories on the verge of closure were able to sell their land.
After making money, these manufacturers moved their factories to remote places to continue production, and the enterprises that were close to bankruptcy came back to life, and Hong Kong's manufacturing industry also prospered rapidly.
With this as a starting point, the entire Hong Kong economy was revived at an astonishing rate and became one of the first of the "Four Asian Tigers" to take off.
Fok Ying-tung's business empire grew larger and larger, and he himself gradually developed from a business upstart to a godfather in the circle of Hong Kong tycoons.
Huo Yingdong's legendary deeds are not exhaustive in three words, and his connection with the mainland is the fundamental reason why he finally won such a special honor.
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From the beginning of breaking the Anglo-American blockade line to smuggle materials to the interior, either explicitly or implicitly, Fok Yingdong's investment and support for the mainland have never been interrupted.
In 1964, Chairman Mao personally signed his signature and invited Fok Yingdong to the mainland to attend the 15th anniversary ceremony of the National Day, and Fok Yingdong gladly went there.
Due to the compulsion of the situation, the trip was carried out in secret.
However, the paper package could not hold the fire, and the trip was still known to the British government of Hong Kong.
After returning to Hong Kong from Beijing, Fok Ying Tung was ruthlessly suppressed by the British government in Hong Kong, and he lost nearly 10 billion Hong Kong dollars as a result.
The successive oppression made Fok Yingdong realize that it was difficult for him to make a big difference in Hong Kong, so he withdrew from the Hong Kong business circle and turned to the mainland.
After the reform and opening up, Fok Yingdong threw himself wholeheartedly into the construction of the interior.
According to fok Yingdong's close friend, "Since 1978, Fok Yingdong has abandoned the Hong Kong business and devoted himself to participating in the reform and opening up of the mainland. ”
Fok Yingdong's contribution to the country is not limited to commercial support, but also to sports assistance.
And China was able to return to the International Olympic Committee, and Fok Yingdong was indispensable.
Although China returned to the United Nations in the 1970s, the mainland did not have a sports space internationally.
My country has always wanted to qualify for a return to the International Olympic Committee, but it has suffered from the lack of a bridge between.
At this time, Fok Yingdong, as the executive committee of FIFA, received a commission from the central government.
In order to help China return to the IOC, Fok Yingdong and his son Huo Zhenting began to travel east and west.
They have done everything in their power to deal with troubles, crises and even threats to their lives from all sides.
With multi-party coordination and turnover, China successfully returned to the IOC.
In 1984, it was the first Olympic Games in which China returned to the Olympic Committee.
Despite the threats from the outside world, Huo Yingdong took his whole family to the scene.
When he heard the national anthem ringing and saw the five-star red flag raised, Huo Yingdong was very excited.
He said it was one of the most memorable moments of his life.
It was also in this year that Fok Ying Tung was again invited to attend the celebration of China's 35th anniversary.
This was the second time he had climbed the Beijing Tower, and when asked by a reporter what it felt like, he didn't say anything, but he was in tears.
After participating in the 1984 Olympic Games, Fok Yingdong has always had a wish, that is, China must bid for an Olympic Games.
In 2000, when Beijing bid to host the Olympic Games, Fok Yingdong used his prestige to actively "canvass for votes."
Unfortunately, China eventually lost the right to host by one vote, and Fok Yingdong was lost for a long time.
Until the year of his death, Fok Yingdong could not see the Olympic Games held by China.
It is comforting to note that at the time of his death, Beijing had already successfully bid for the Olympic Games.
Beijing's Water Cube was one of the venues of the 2008 Olympic Games and the only Olympic venue built to receive donations from compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and Fok Yingdong was the largest donor to this venue.
Fok Ying-tung said: The kind of national feelings that a person like him who has been issued under the rule of the British government in Hong Kong probably has that others cannot understand.
And his patriotic heart of fist and fist has also been fully implemented in his lifetime.
Throughout Fok Ying Tung's life: in the first half of his life, he helped Hong Kong transform from a small fishing village into the "Pearl of the Orient";
In the second half of his life, he devoted all his efforts to "awakening" the oriental lion.
His magnificent life is worthy of the courtesy of a coffin covering the national flag, and his name is destined to go down in history.