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How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

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How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

Young and promising Ye Zhiming

In the 1940s, when the Kuomintang and the Communists were in conflict and the situation was turbulent, many landlords in the mainland fled to Hong Kong to avoid disaster. In 1943, Ip was born in this kind of family in Hong Kong, and his family was not bad.

Ye Zhiming was intelligent and had good academic performance from an early age, but he did not stay in the west as his father expected and became a lawyer or doctor professional, and entered the society after graduating from high school.

Ye Zhiming is shrewd, cheerful, enterprising, and persistent.

5, 60s Hong Kong society is more chaotic, more poor people in the mainland fled Hong Kong, the police force is seriously corrupt, gangsters are rampant, but also this is the initial stage of Hong Kong's economy, many of today's Hong Kong super-rich people are at that time to open their own wealth, such as Li Ka-shing opened a plastic flower factory, Far East Group Qiu Degen opened a movie theater in the slums. At that time (early 60s), the young Ip Zhiming chose the yacht business, and through speculation and leasing, he easily earned the first pot of gold in his life. But he didn't stick with it because he saw more tempting business.

Ye Zhiming's vision is admirable, and at the same time, his impetuousness also makes people sigh, and his impetuous personality is one of the main reasons for his failure.

At that time, the United States was gradually mired in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and all kinds of materials in the country were in short supply, so Ip Zhiming invested in the production of wigs and sold them to the United States, which was a great success, made a lot of money, and became a millionaire in one fell swoop (at that time, today's super rich Lee Shau Kee only used 20,000 yuan to acquire a building).

It is easy to make money on fake intentions, but it is not the most exciting, the most exciting and exciting is of course the oil business! So when Ip chi-ming stinked that the oil trade was profitable, he did not hesitate to switch to the oil business (and Li Ka-shing still insisted on his plastic flower factory). However, the elusive Pattern of the Cold War between east and West, as well as the world oil crisis that came to the future, soon made Ye Zhiming anxious, lost everything, and was beaten back to his original form.

In the 1960s, Ye Zhiming started with a smooth sailing, became rich and noble, and finally ended in a fiasco.

In the early 1970s, Ip chi-ming devoted himself to the jeans business for 40,000 yuan, when his peers included Lai Chi-ying, who is now the leader of the chaos in Hong Kong (who started the "Giordano" brand), and the current Jufu Lin Jianyue family (who pioneered the "Crocodile Shirt" brand). Ip's "BangBang" brand was a great success, with assets once exceeding 1 billion yuan.

Ye Zhiming's eyes are always catching fighters!

At this time, Hong Kong's film industry was entering a good period (Bruce Lee was indispensable), and Ip was moved, and in 1976 he invested in the opening of a film company (this time he did not abandon the clothing business). Lai Has been concentrating on making Giordano a public company. Ye Zhiming had a dual purpose, the clothing company over there gradually fell into crisis, and the film company here failed to excavate the superstar Jackie Chan like Zou Wenhuai of Jiahe, and only a few years later both companies were forced to sell to others.

In the 1970s, Ye Zhiming started with success and ended in failure.

How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

Wong Ka-koo, the golden supporting actor of The Hong Kong police film, made his debut at Ip Chi Ming's film company and developed well.

How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

Hong Kong star Ip Yuk-ching is the younger sister of Ip Chi Ming and was also a contracted actor of Fei tu Music.

Failure is nothing, Ye Zhiming does not lose his fighting spirit!

In the early 1980s, Ye Zhiming entered the catering industry at a low cost, and the "Beihai Fishing Village" was successful, but the "Beihai Fishing Village" failed to open a second branch, let alone become a restaurant kingdom, because its owner changed to real estate. Ip raised tens of millions of dollars to build a resort on an island (bridge) in Hong Kong. At the same time, Jin Yongxia's Cha family built the Yujing Garden on another desert island, Lantau Island, which was a great success, and established the Cha family's current status as a huge rich man in one fell swoop. Ye Zhiming's resort ended dismally, and was acquired in 1987, only 650,000 yuan was returned.

Ye Zhiming's 80s were still difficult to escape fate, starting with success and ending with failure.

How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

Feitu music is popular singer Liang Yanling

It doesn't matter! Ye Zhiming laughed it off.

In the year of the sale of the resort, Ip ventured into the entertainment industry, opening Feitu Music, running karaoke discs and developing a singer business. I have to admire, Ye Zhiming has a very business vision! At that time, "karaoke" had just emerged in Japan and soon swept through the Greater China region, so in Hong Kong, Ip Chi Ming had the reputation of the father of "karaoke". Feitu music has unlimited scenery for a while! Unfortunately, it did not last and fell into decline, in 1995 was acquired by Yang Shoucheng, renamed Emperor Entertainment, Yang Shoucheng has since stepped into the entertainment industry, and to this day has become a giant in the entertainment industry.

At this time, Ye Zhiming was over 50 years old, looking back at the ups and downs of the past, and sighing in his heart! At the same time, I also thought, could it be that Hong Kong is not my own blessed land after all?!

Not to be outdone, Ye Zhiming set his sights on the mainland and invested in the construction of Feitu Dream Cinema in Panyu, Guangdong In 1995. Perhaps it is the advanced consciousness, the sparse number of tourists in the built studio, and the subsequent tourist casualties have sent the studio to hell, and in 2001, it was bankrupt and acquired, and now it is a successful large amusement park.

How a Burning Heart Becomes As Still as Stagnant Water: Remembering the Legendary Hong Kong Businessman Ip Chi Ming

Ye Zhiming, a former business strongman, is now a Buddhist disciple, Master Dunzhi

At this time, Ye Zhiming is almost 60 years old, and the struggle of a lifetime is ultimately the word "failure"! Of course, a person like him who has been through the storm for a long time can already look down on the gains and losses of money. However, there was one thing that made Ye Zhiming feel pain. In 1998, when the Feitu Fantasy Cinema was gradually in crisis, his beloved son, Ye Chongren, who was also his right-hand man in business, died in a car accident, and Ye Zhiming had no time to be sad, because the cinema in crisis was waiting for him!

Now that the studio is over, the pain of losing his son in Ye Zhiming's heart has reappeared. The disturbances in the world also made him think bitterly: What is a person living for?

That's it, that's it! Ye Zhiming was suddenly enlightened and enlightened, so he was reborn in the Buddha's kingdom.

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