Speaking of Hong Kong film tycoon Yang Shoucheng, many mainland friends are also very familiar with it, because Yang Shoucheng is the owner of Emperor Entertainment, and its artists Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung are very famous in the mainland. Many people also say that Yang Shoucheng is a big man in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, so how high is Yang Shoucheng's status in Hong Kong?
Yang Shoucheng's emperor has developed well in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in recent years, and many films have been very popular in the mainland, such as the "Red Sea Operation" invested in the previous two years. The trump card that Yang Shoucheng is holding now is Lin Chaoxian. But if you really understand the Hong Kong entertainment industry and business community, you know that Yang Shoucheng is not a big brother at all. Yang Shoucheng is not only not a big brother, but his status is also very general, in the eyes of the real big guys, Yang Shoucheng is not a rich man.
Although Yang Shoucheng has 7 listed companies and businesses throughout real estate, securities, entertainment, etc., Yang Shoucheng's net worth is only 10 billion, far less than Li Ka-shing and other top rich people. In terms of the status of the jianghu, Yang Shoucheng is far inferior to a figure like Xiang Huaqiang. Xiang Huaqiang's own eldest brother Xiang Huayan is the dragon head of new Ngee Ann, and Yang Shoucheng's patron is actually new Ngee Ann.
At that time, Yang Shoucheng once fell out with Li Zekai for the sake of Liang Luoshi's affairs, and at first Yang Shoucheng's attitude was very tough, that is, he refused to let Liang Luoshi go. At that time, Yang Shoucheng wanted to fight a lawsuit with Li Zekai, and Li Zekai did not hesitate to take out 100 million yuan to fight the lawsuit. Both sides were fierce, and Yang Shoucheng also repeatedly shelled Li Zekai and Liang Luoshi in the media.
However, what is surprising is that before the lawsuit began, Yang Shoucheng suddenly chose to reconcile with Li Zekai out of court and let Liang Luoshi go. In fact, Yang Shoucheng knew that if he really offended the Li Ka-shing family, he would not have good fruit to eat. The strength of his own family and Li Ka-shing's family is too much.
In fact, this is not the first time that Yang Shoucheng has confessed in Hong Kong. When Yang Shoucheng was young, he was also very popular, and yang Shoucheng was also surrounded by countless female stars. One day, Yang Shoucheng took a new girlfriend to a Hong Kong bar to play, and just happened to meet Xiang Huasheng, the owner of Yongsheng Movie. Both people are people in the film circle, so naturally they have to say a few words of greeting. Xiang Huasheng is the youngest brother of the Xiang family, and Yang Shoucheng did not take him seriously at first, because Yang Shoucheng thought that he also knew Xiang Huayan.
He teases Hua Sheng about Yang Shoucheng's new friend, which angers Yang Shoucheng. Yang Shoucheng responded: Everyone plays their own game. Xiang Huasheng did not forgive, so the two people broke out into a conflict. Yang Shoucheng threatened to find someone from 14K. This sentence infuriated Xiang Huasheng, and he immediately called someone. Soon after, Lin Jiang, the grand master of New Ngee An, brought someone with him.
When Yang Shoucheng saw Lin Jiang coming, he immediately stopped talking. Lin Jiang threatened Yang Shoucheng: It's not to call 14K people to come, you go and call ah. In the end, Yang Shoucheng could only go away.
At that time, Yang Shoucheng's son Yang Qilong fell in love with He Chaoqiong, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong. However, Yang Qilong was a famous prodigal son in personality, and He Hongshen was very dissatisfied after he knew it, he did not give Yang Shoucheng face, and repeatedly shelled Yang Qilong's character problems in the media, and finally forced He Chaoqiong to break up with Yang Qilong.
In fact, from these bits and pieces, it can be seen that Yang Shoucheng's status in Hong Kong is really not high. Although Yang Shoucheng is not a top rich man, his life is also quite legendary. Yang Shoucheng, like Li Ka-shing, is a Teochew native and a fellow countryman. Yang Shoucheng's father made money by opening a watch shop in Hong Kong very early.
However, Yang Shoucheng's father married several wives and had more than a dozen children, so Yang Shoucheng was not valued at home at first. Yang Shoucheng began to run parallel goods to make money as a teenager, and then really let Yang Shoucheng earn the first bucket of gold, so Yang Shoucheng took this money, plus the 200,000 yuan that his father helped, opened a watch shop in Hong Kong, and represented many top Swiss brands.
Yang Shoucheng later opened several branches, and the business was bigger than his father. Yang Shoucheng was very smart, at that time, Hong Kong property prices were rising, so Yang Shoucheng made money and kept buying houses, and later simply participated in real estate development. By 1973, Yang Shoucheng was already a powerful boss.
In 1968, Li Fuzhao established far east securities in Hong Kong to help Hong Kong Chinese-funded companies to list, and in 1972, Li Ka-shing's Changjiang Group, Zheng Yutong's New World, Kwok Tak-sheng's Sun Hung Kai and other companies were listed in Hong Kong, known as the Five Tigers of Chinese-funded real estate. Yang Shoucheng also successfully listed his good world a year later, when Yang Shoucheng was not yet 30 years old.
Yang Shoucheng was full of vigor and began to wind and snow outside. Yang Shoucheng is also very radical, constantly buying land in Hong Kong to build buildings, at most, Yang Shoucheng has 30 projects under construction at the same time, and as a result, in the early 80s, the Hong Kong property market fell sharply, Yang Shoucheng went bankrupt overnight, and owed 320 million to the bank.
Yang Shou became a debt repayment, let the bank return the jewelry city to him to manage, let him make money to pay off the debt. Later, Yang Shoucheng went to West Asia to pan for gold, and then he returned to Hong Kong to set up a securities company, and within a few years, Yang Shoucheng paid off 320 million. 320 million at the time was almost equal to 10 billion today.
When Yang Shoucheng went bankrupt, the bank had stipulated that Yang Shoucheng could not sit in Rolls Royce. After Yang Shoucheng turned over, he deliberately spent 13 million yuan to shoot a No. 9 license plate in Hong Kong, and matched it with his own Rolls-Royce, so that all Hong Kong people knew that they had turned over.
After that, Yang Shoucheng invested in the real estate and entertainment industry, and his career became more and more successful. Yang Shoucheng has also invested a lot in the mainland, and the famous Emperor Center in Beijing is invested by Yang Shoucheng. In fact, before 97, Yang Shoucheng was not successful in film development. The largest film company in Hong Kong at that time was Wing Shing.
Shaw's production was discontinued in 1985, and the new art city was short-lived, so after 97 Hong Kong movies did not pick up, at this time Yang Shoucheng founded The Emperor Film and shot a lot of good movies. Nowadays, the Emperor's film has almost become the last fig leaf of Hong Kong films, good talents have gone north, and there are very few artists and excellent directors who still stick to Hong Kong.
In fact, the Emperor Film is no longer sticking to that Hong Kong flavor, but shooting from a more grand perspective, for example, the films that Yang Shoucheng and Lin Chaoxian have cooperated in recent years are almost all Hollywood-level production standards.
Yang Shoucheng is now more than 70 years old, in fact, the gap between him and Li Ka-shing and others is not in business, but in the capital market, Yang Shoucheng is less involved in the capital market, which makes his wealth growth rate far less than That of Li Ka-shing and others.