When it comes to Today's philanthropists in China, many people think of Cao Dewang. In fact, on the total number of donations, Cao Dewang is not the most, and the business cao Dewang does is not particularly profitable after all. In fact, there are many philanthropists in China who are greater than Cao Dewang, such as Tian Jiabing and Run Run Shaw. Of course, Li Ka-shing is also what we must mention.
To see how rich a rich man is, you have to look at how the rich man spends money. Many rich people have money on the wealth list, but in fact they have little money, and spending a little money is stretched. When it comes to Li Ka-shing spending money, many people know that he raised 1 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash in 1 day in 1996 and successfully saved his son Li Zeju.
Many people know that Li Ka-shing has a lot of cash, but no one knows how much cash he has? In fact, in 2006, Li Ka-shing once spent 100 billion yuan in cash in one night.
One night in 2006, Li Ka-shing couldn't sleep at home, when Li Ka-shing was 78 years old, and he had been thinking about the future of his life. At that time, Li Ka-shing was already one of the world's top ten richest people and the richest man in Hong Kong for many years, and he had already achieved fame, and he began to think about the next step in his life.
In the end, Li Ka-shing made a surprising decision, he donated all the assets he had accumulated from more than 50 years of business. The cash assets that Li Ka-shing accumulated at that time were as high as $13 billion, equivalent to 100 billion yuan, which is definitely an astronomical number.
However, in fact, this wealth accounted for only one-third of Li Ka-shing's wealth at that time. From this point we can also see Li Ka-shing's wealth, no wonder we have always said that Li Ka-shing is the real richest man.
He had $100 billion in cash in 2006, and if Li Ka-shing hadn't donated, his fortune would now be even greater. Li Ka-shing controlled a number of listed companies such as Changshi Group and Changjiang Hutchison, all of which had a characteristic that their market value was undervalued, and each company was almost broken.
However, the annual profits of these companies are very stable, and the annual profit of Changshi is about 20 to 30 billion, while the profit of Yangtze River Hutchison is more than 40 billion. Li Ka-shing personally receives approximately tens of billions of dividends from these two listed companies every year. Just the special dividend obtained from the sale of Watsons that year, Li Ka-shing received 7 billion.
If from 2006 to the present, Li Ka-shing has accumulated at least 100 billion or so in cash, if the previous 100 billion is counted, then Li Ka-shing has 200 billion in cash. Today, China does not say 200 billion in cash, even 20 billion cash is not a few rich people can take out.
After Ma Huateng's listing on Tencent, through continuous cashing, a total of more than 29 billion yuan of cash was cashed out. Today, there are definitely no more than 10 billion rich people in the mainland who can come up with 10 billion yuan in cash.
At that time, Li Ka-shing spent 100 billion yuan a night, in fact, he was also under a lot of pressure. After all, this was accumulated by Li Ka-shing for more than 50 years of business at that time. However, Li Ka-shing later said that he thought about it at four or five o'clock in the morning and finally figured it out. Li Ka-shing thought that if he had one more son, he would also score a third of his assets to him, so Later Li Ka-shing regarded the Li Ka-shing Charity Fund as his third son.
In addition to the $13 billion in cash, Li Ka-shing has donated a lot of assets to his charity fund over the years, and the total assets of the charity fund should now be more than hundreds of billions. Cash donations from charitable funds have also exceeded $30 billion. Li Ka-shing said that at that time, he was also thinking about why he should take out his hard-earned savings for decades to help some irrelevant people.
Later, Li Ka-shing also figured it out, and he set two goals for his life, to realize himself and create selflessness. In the first half of his life, Li Ka-shing was realizing his self-worth, and in the second half of his life, he was forgetting himself and returning his wealth to society. Li Ka-shing is also achieving the transition from typed to formless.
The height of Li Ka-shing's thinking is indeed not comparable to that of ordinary people. In fact, when it comes to Li Ka-shing's third son, there was also a counterfeit in the mainland. More than a decade ago, a Hong Kong man suddenly appeared on the mainland, who claimed to be Li Ka-shing's illegitimate son. This Hong Kong man was named Jia Xiangdong, and at that time he joined forces with Li Baohua, a rich woman in Xiamen, and the two of them cheated together in Xiamen and other places.
In fact, Jia Xiangdong is not Li Ka-shing's illegitimate son at all, and Li Ka-shing has two sons with the original Pair Zhuang Yueming in his lifetime. However, at that time, the information was relatively despicable, many people did not know, and Li Baohua was originally quite famous in the Xiamen area, so under her packaging, Jia Xiangdong made a generous move, which soon attracted the attention of the market.
At that time, Jia Xiangdong and Li Baohua used to invest in oil and other projects in Europe, totaling more than a billion yuan, of course, and then the East Window incident occurred.
After Li Ka-shing decided to donate $13 billion in cash, he told Li Zeju and Li Zekai the next day. At that time, the family was eating, and Li Ka-shing suddenly told Li Zeju and Li Zekai that he had a third son. Li Zeju and Li Zekai were startled at first.
However, Li Ka-shing then introduced the reason to his two sons, and after listening to it, the two sons were also very supportive. In fact, Li Ka-shing donated so much cash, and the damage was also Li Zeju and Li Zekai. Because this money is donated, then it will not be able to leave it to them in the future. Neither Li Zeju nor Li Zekai believed that their interests had been damaged, but instead supported Li Ka-shing in doing so.
This also shows that Li Ka-shing's education of his two sons is also very successful. In fact, Li Ka-shing's philanthropic heart also affected his two sons. Li Zeju and Li Zekai have also been managing the charity work of the Li Ka Shing Foundation for many years, and Li Zekai has also donated a lot of his own charity in recent years, such as the previous Henan flood he also donated 10 million.
Li Ka-shing had previously taken Li Zekai to Shantou University to attend the graduation ceremony, and Li Ka-shing also said that in the future, Li Zekai would donate more money to Shantou University, and he had made a lot of money in recent years.
In fact, according to Li Ka-shing's arrangement, their family's donations to Li Ka-shing's foundation will be continuous, and they will continue to donate the assets they earn to the Li Ka-shing Foundation, so that the scale of this foundation is getting bigger and bigger, and more good things can be done. When Li Ka-shing went to the United States for surgery a few years ago, Li Ka-shing told a son that no matter what happened, the Li Ka-shing Foundation must donate 90% of its donations in China.