Chen Yongqi, known as "Brother Chess", is a Hong Kong gangster-level figure. Born in a textile family, he is the second generation of "Yangtze River Garment" who enjoys the reputation of "garment and a flower", known as "the wizard of creating myths" and "the king of clothing", and has been in charge of Asian television.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Hong Kong, Chen Yongqi said that he was a Dongguan native, but for his contributions and achievements over the years, he said that he was very lucky to be able to grow up in such an era, I was just "a small gear in the giant wheel of the times".
From an extraordinary textile family in Dongguan
Chen Ruiqiu at & Tai Man Zhen Library (2015)
On March 27, 2018, Chen Ruiqiu, the donor of Jinan University's "Manzhen Building", passed away at the age of 92. In 2015, Jinan University named the library building "Man Zhen Lou" to thank Mr. Chan Swee-kee, a famous Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropic leader who has donated and supported the University for many years, and his wife, Ms. Tan Lin Man Zhen.
Chen Ruiqiu, known as "Qiu Bo" by Hong Kong people and hometown people, has served as the honorary chairman and executive director of Changjiang Garment, the honorary chairman of YGM Trade, the honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Textile Federation, the chief honorary president of the Federation of Hong Kong And Guangdong Associations, etc. He has been honored with the honorary titles of Forbes Global Fashion Top Ten Chinese List and "Outstanding Guanshang". Because of his enthusiasm for public affairs and charity, Chen Ruiqiu was appointed as a "Justice of the Peace" in 1983, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1993 for ten years, and successively won the "British Official Order", "Golden Bauhinia Star", "Grand Bauhinia Medal" and other honors.
Chen Ruiqiu is the fourth uncle of Chen Yongqi, and Chen Yongqi's father Chen Ruihuai is Chen Ruiqiu's second brother, Chen Ruihuai and the fourth brother Chen Ruiqiu joined forces in 1949 to found The Yangtze River Garment, which is the pioneer of Hong Kong's garment industry, and enjoyed the reputation of "garment and a flower" in the 1950s. In September 2001, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University named one wing of the on-campus teaching building "Chan Swee Wing" in recognition of the Chan family's support to the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
In fact, there are many teaching places in colleges and universities named after the Chen family, such as "Chen Ruiqiu Building", "Chen Ruihuai's Wife Ms. Hu Yingui Continuing Education Building" of Hong Kong Baptist University (Note: donated by Chen Ruiqiu), etc., Hu Yingui is Chen Yongqi's mother.
Dongguan Chen Village
Chen Yongqi, managing director of Hong Kong Changjiang Garment Co., Ltd., he was one of the first Hong Kong businessmen to participate in the reform and opening up, born in Hong Kong in 1947, his ancestral home is Qiaotou Village, Houjie Town, Dongguan City; at the same time, he is also the chairman of YGM Trading Co., Ltd. and the vice chairman of Changjiang Garment Group.
Chen Yongqi said that his family was a Guanshang merchant, so it was better to go back to their hometown of Dongguan Chen Village. Over the years, every Qingming Festival, Chen Yongqi would often return to his hometown with his children and grandchildren to worship his ancestors and visit the graves. In fact, if the time can be turned back to the end of the Qing Dynasty, when chen Yongqi's hometown of Houjie Chen Village, the population has exceeded 100,000 people, is already a commercial powerhouse, and the early development of Xinwei's trade was dominated by cloth and dry goods.
By the time of the Republic of China, with the booming development of commerce, hand-cranked telephones had been opened here, which could be used for long-distance calls with various parts of the country, and bus routes for the region opened by automobile companies. In addition, the textile industry here is also very prosperous, such as the "DeshengLong Yarn Silk Village" in the Republic of China, and its yarn is sold well in China and exported to Nanyang, Singapore and other places. At that time, Xinwei, like Shanghai at night, was a city that never sleeps, in addition to commerce, food, etc., the brothels at that time were also a scenery. According to the description in the report of the "Global Daily" of the Republic of China: "Every night when the lights are on, the songs are exciting, the paper is drunk and the fans are drunk, and the wind and moon are no less than the nantang wind and moon." ”
In addition, Chen Cun was rich in wealth during the Republic of China, and Chen Cun had many merchants and giants, including Chen Yongqi's father, Chen Ruihuai, and so on.
The Jiedu Chen Gong Ancestral Hall at the head of the Houjie Bridge
According to the Economic Daily, Chen Yongqi, who returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, talked about the ancestral training of his family to educate his descendants to love the country and love their hometown, the history of the Ming Dynasty's migration from Henan to Guandi, and what kind of celebrities and sages his ancestors had.
Located at the head of the Houjie Bridge in Dongguan, the "Jiedu Chen Gong Ancestral Hall" was built in the late Southern Song Dynasty and is an ancient building commemorating Chen Yu, the ancestor of Qiaotou LiCun. Qiaotou Chen I ancestor Chen Yu, a native of Bieliang, Henan (present-day Kaifeng), during the reign of Emperor Jingkang of Song Qinzong, worshiped the general of the Zhen Dynasty with martial arts, and jianyan crossed south from Emperor Gaozong of Song in the first year of the first year, and previously served as an envoy of the Lingnan Qing Navy, and came to Qiaotou around the third year of Song Shaoxing (1127).
In the twenty-fifth year of Shaoxing, Chen Yu's son Chen Yan, the second ancestor of the Chen clan of Qiaotou, served as the county commander of Dongguan County with his father Yin; in this year, he moved to Xinwu Village and settled in Xinwu Village, where he was buried in Xinwu Xiangsi Garden. The descendants of the Chen clan built the "Jiedu Chen Gong Ancestral Hall" to commemorate the Kaiji ancestor Chen Yugong.
Chen Ruiqiu, one of the founders of Yangtze River Garment
The ancestors of the Chen Yongqi family once operated the yarn industry, which can be regarded as a textile family. At first, Chen Yongqi's father, Chen Ruihuai, was in business in Thailand for many years, while his fourth uncle Chen Ruiqiu developed in Hong Kong and Macao. In 1949, when the brothers joined hands to establish the Yangtze River Garment Factory, Chen Ruiqiu was still in the year of weak crown, initially the industry was only a hundred-person factory, starting with 20 clothing cars, and later became a listed group company, employing tens of thousands of employees worldwide, with an annual turnover of more than 400 million US dollars, and the leader of the international textile industry.
At present, The business of Changjiang Garment Group is also textile, garment procurement, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, etc., and the export market covers Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia. It is worth mentioning that in the 1960s, Chen Ruiqiu successfully joined hands with the Hong Kong Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce to strive for a fair distribution of export quotas to the British government of Hong Kong, laying the foundation for the steady growth of Hong Kong's garment exports. In the 1980s, they combined the representative chambers of commerce in different fields such as spinning, weaving, knitting, bleaching and dyeing, and garments, and worked together to successfully organize the "Hong Kong Textile Industry Association".
Even though their karma comes from Heung Kong, the Chen family loves their ancestors and loves their hometown, and they set up the Chen Family Charity Fund to generously engage in social welfare undertakings such as charity and education.
The Chan family made the textile industry one of the pillars of Hong Kong's industry at that time. For a long time, even if the style was low-key, Ke Qiu (Chen Ruiqiu) was highly respected in the industry as a leader in Hong Kong's textile and garment industry. In the early years, there was a popular saying in the industrial circles of Hong Kong Island: "If there is a need, find the ball." ”
She is also committed to participating in charity work and strongly supporting and promoting the achievements of education in Hong Kong and the Mainland. In addition to Jinan University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the "Chen Rui Ball Building", which was laid in April 2005 on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was also donated by his family. In addition, the Chen family generously donated money to support education, not limited by geographical boundaries, in addition to their hometown in Dongguan, they also donated funds for education in Guangzhou, Foshan and Wuxi.
Join forces with Liu Changle to repel Li Ka-shing and attack Asia Television
Chen Yongqi, Managing Director of Hong Kong Cheung Kong Garment
Chen Yongqi belongs to the second generation of the rich, but he is a great "second generation", developing his family business in the inheritance.
Born in the 1940s, Chen Yongqi studied abroad from 1966 to 1970 and studied industrial engineering at PURDUE University in the United States. In 1970, after returning to Hong Kong from studying in the United States, Chen Yongqi joined the family business, starting from the director of the shirt department, and after 1980, he served as the deputy general manager and general manager of the Hong Kong Changjiang Garment Factory.
Many second-generation enterprises rush to take over the "going out", study abroad to cultivate management and coping skills, and generally use the family business as a stage to show their abilities after returning. In the 1970s, affected by the quota restrictions imposed by Europe and the United States on the import of Asian textiles, in the face of the trade impact caused by quotas, Yangtze River Garment mainly had two major coping strategies: first, to increase the output of high-priced garments and export suits that were not subject to quota restrictions; second, to jump out of Hong Kong and go to countries or regions that were not affected by quotas to open factories.
At that time, Yangtze River Garment had set up factories in Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh, India, Taiwan, Lesotho and other places, and because of this, members of the Chen family, especially the second generation, were also arranged to manage factories in various places. When asian and European countries negotiate quotas, their family members even represent the government of the investing country in the form of advisers to international business conferences. For example, Chan Wing Chi has participated in the negotiations between the Hong Kong and Macau governments on bilateral textile agreements with the European Common Market and the United States on a number of occasions, and has won a number of ready-to-wear quotas for the two industries.
In the 1980s, when Chen Yongqi went to Costa Rica to investigate, a civil war was breaking out in neighboring Nicaragua, and left-wing guerrillas were rampant, chen Yongqi said that he was in danger of being kidnapped at any time.
Chen Yongqi was interviewed by Wu Xiaoli
Chen Yongqi, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and also known as a "patriotic businessman," said: "Since the country's reform and opening up, especially since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, it has been the most splendid years of my life. I feel very fortunate to be able to grow up in such an era. As one of the first Hong Kong businessmen to participate in reform and opening up, he said that he was "a small gear in the giant wheel of the times."
In the early days of reform and opening up in 1978, Chen Yongqi was "the first person to eat crabs", he took the lead early, and in 1979 he went to Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, to cooperate with local enterprises to invest in the textile industry. Speaking of which, his investment in the mainland is extremely arduous and tortuous, and because his family has already opened a factory in Taiwan, they do not want the Taiwan authorities to know about investing in the mainland.
In that year, Chen Yongqi first went from Hong Kong to Macao, then from Macao to enter and exit, from Gongbei to Customs through Guangzhou and Shanghai and then to Wuxi. Since then, the Chen family has opened a garment factory in Guangdong, producing yarn ingots and dye factories, and gradually forming an industrial chain in the mainland, and the business is booming. Among them, Chen Yongqi's investment in Qinghai's electrolytic aluminum ingot plant is the first project of Hong Kong companies in the province.
"Hong Kong people will do better!" After the return of Hong Kong, Chen Yongqi shuttled through industrial and commercial and social affairs. In 1997, he was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Textile Industry Association and the principal investigator of eight other chambers of commerce.
Chen Yongqi, permanent honorary chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Guangdong Community Organizations
Taking the lead in moving north to the interior and saving the ancestral industry of clothing production is just one thing in Chen Yongqi's inheritance of the family business. Chen Yongqi has been in the Hong Kong textile industry for more than 40 years, has been inseparable from the garment industry, the family business Changjiang Garment has become bigger and bigger, and from the early years of manufacturing garments to the production of raw materials and retail, later, they also operated the trading sector - YGM Trading listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
At present, in addition to Ma Shilong, who was founded in 1976, the retail brand of the Chen family has also founded the fashion chain Hang Ten with his cousin Chen Yongshen, and defeated Giordano in Taiwan, known as the legend of Baodao fashion industry.
His cousin, Chan Wing Sun, is currently the chairman of Hong Kong-owned Handeng Group Holdings Company (0448-HK), and he is also the vice chairman and executive director of the family business Cheung Kong Garment Group (0294-HK), and the vice chairman and executive director of another Hong Kong stock YGM Trading Co., Ltd. Chen Yongshen's father is Chen Yongqi's fourth uncle, Chen Ruiqiu, like Chen Yongqi, is one of the second-generation successors of the family business, he is two years younger than his cousin Chen Yongqi.
In 2016, Chen Yongqi was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
As the second generation of the family, when mentioning Chen Yongqi, he will talk about ATV, especially the legendary story of his acquisition of Asia Television to repel Li Ka-shing.
In March 2016, at THEV, who had held the red Zhang Guorong and Guan Zhilin in one hand, and then the devastated ATV finally closed down without suspense!
Asia Television (ATV) is the first television station in Hong Kong, formerly known as Hong Kong's first commercial radio station, and it is also the world's first Chinese-language television station. At its peak, ATV covered nearly 100 million viewers in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong and North America, and was an influential television station in Asia. ATV, officially opened on May 29, 1957, was originally named Leigh's Yingsheng and Leigh TV (RTV), and on September 24, 1982, it was renamed Asia Television.
However, on January 29, 2018, ATV officially "resurrected" the stage! But at that "ATV Asia TV Launch Ceremony", although there was a consistent ATV color, but the new station logo was enabled, the first shot at the ceremony was Lin Zixiang, who has always been very hard at singing, but the scene was full of embarrassment, and the whole aura was very similar to the style of the sixties and seventies. Many netizens complained: Sooner or later, I will die again!
Different from the traditional TV platform in the past, after the official launch of the new Asia TV, it will be operated in the form of OTT network TV, launching an ATV network TV box and a new "ATV Asia TV APP" mobile phone client, where users can click on and broadcast wonderful programs from all over the world anytime and anywhere. At the same time, ATV will continue to produce diversified programs such as games, variety shows, entertainment, and information, and introduce various wonderful programs from China, Japan, Korea and overseas, including dramas, movies, parent-child, popular comprehensive live broadcast programs, music channels, etc., which will be broadcast on the ATV Asia TV OTT platform.
Lin Zixiang sang at the opening ceremony of the Atv at Asia Television in Hong Kong
Looking back at Chan Wing Chi, in the Hong Kong business world, he has always been known for his foresight in everything and for his constant ingenuity. After decades of playing in the mall, he suddenly stared at the media industry. Earlier than when Phoenix Satellite TV was not yet listed, Chen Yongqi had already seen its strange goods to live in, and invested in shares very early, and in 2000, when Phoenix Satellite TV was listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, his wealth soared.
Among them, the two major shareholders of Phoenix Satellite TV Holdings are Liu Changle and Chen Yongqi, and in 2000 and 2005, they invested in Asia Television, one of the main media outlets in Hong Kong, and Gold Medal Entertainment, a fast-rising entertainment and manager company in Hong Kong, and the two are the major shareholders of these two companies.
Since 2000, Chen Yongqi has invested 200 million yuan in ATV and later became the largest shareholder. In May of that year, he acquired a 16.25% stake in Zheng Yutong and Stanley Ho, the two giants of Hong Kong and Macau, and in June 2002, he and Liu Changle set up VMH in British Virgin, fully acquired ATV, and obtained 46% of the shares of ATV. Half a year later, Chen Yongqi pocketed all 32.75% of the 32.75% held by Lin Baixin for 360 million yuan.
At that time, at that time, at that time, the shareholding structure of ATV underwent new changes. Chen Yongqi holds 52.08% of the shares in ATV, while Liu Changle, another major shareholder of Phoenix Satellite TV, accounts for 42.92% of the shares, and the third largest shareholder, Huang Baoxin, holds 5% of the shares. Huang Baoxin later became the chairman of ATV, he was a Fujian businessman in Hong Kong, his ancestral home was Hoi An, Fujian Province, he was once a famous "king of plastic raw materials" in Hong Kong, and the founder of Hong Kong Lianqiao Enterprise.
Chairman of Asia Television Hong Kong Wong Po Hin
When acquiring ATV, it was not all smooth sailing. At that time, Tom .com, a subsidiary of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, publicly announced that it wanted to acquire more than 32.75% of ATV's shares. In the face of Li Chaoren's aggressive position, Chen Yongqi and Liu Changle, chairman of the board of directors of Phoenix Satellite TV, joined forces to block the attack. At that time, Chen Yongqi bought a 32.75% stake held by Lin Baixin's "Lixin Development", plus the vmh company previously held by the two, in fact, Chen and Liu had completely dominated the equity of ATV.
However, a storm about the ATV equity war has not subsided. Because Liu Changle is a veteran, before entering business, he worked in media such as the Central People's Radio. At that time, his investment in ATV aroused great concern in the Hong Kong media circles, and many people accused him of the acquisition for allegedly affecting "press freedom".
In 2007, they sold their major interests in ATV and Gold Medal Entertainment to Cha Mao Sheng, Cha Mao De Brothers and Huan Ya Variety Group respectively. The brothers Cha Mao Sheng and Cha Mao De are members of the cha ji min family of the famous Hong Kong Ningbo businessman. Huanya Variety is one of the largest and most successful Chinese film production companies in Asia, and the current chairman of Huanya Media is Lin Jianyue, the second son of Lin Baixin. After a big circle, part of atv's equity "flowed away" from Lin Baixin's hands and then returned to his son's hands, which is also quite interesting.
Chen Yongqi at the time of the acquisition of ATV
Many people have a question, why is it that the person who takes over the order is to check the family?
In 2007, Chen Yongqi sold his stake in ATV to Cha Maosheng and Fei Daoyi. Fei Daoyi, known as the "son of the sixth uncle" in Hong Kong, defected in April 2007 to join ATV as chief executive officer, but his tenure was only 1.5 years. Previously, Fei Daoyi had followed Run Run Shaw for 31 years and served as the managing director of Wireless.
The Chen Yongqi family and the Cha Jimin family have a long history in business, and the Chen family, which runs clothing, imports fabrics from the Cha family decades ago. In 2006, the Chen and Zha families became in-laws again. Chan Wing-chi's niece, Chen Aiyin, is married to Cha Yao-chung, the eldest son of Cha Mao, whose mother is Shi Meilun, who served in the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for ten years. In 2001, Ms. Schmidt became vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and she now serves as chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
HKEX Chairman Miren Schmidt
Marriage is a successful science in the inheritance of many Hong Kong giants, which injects life genes into the longevity of family businesses.
In Hong Kong, the phenomenon of joint investment between family enterprises is quite common, and large families are often family friends, on the one hand, they establish a deep alliance through mutual investment, share investment risks together, and use this entangled investment relationship to prepare a solid backup for the next generation of successors.
Another strategy, that is, marriage. Through the marriage of the giants, the marriage effect is used to arrange for future generations of children to gain a firm foothold in different fields, so that the wealth of the family business can accumulate for generations.
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