On May 5, 2020, the Humen Bridge in Guangdong Province was abnormally shaken due to unknown reasons, and the Guangdong Traffic Management Department quickly took action to conduct a comprehensive closed inspection of the Humen Bridge, and the subsequent public inspection results showed that the vibration was caused by the impact of the ocean vortex and did not damage the bridge body of the Humen Bridge. This matter has been on the news hot search list and has been widely concerned by the public. Humen Bridge is a typical project representing Chinese manufacturing, reflecting the superb wisdom of modern Chinese bridge construction.
What many people do not know is that the Humen Bridge was built by Mr. Hu Yingxiang, a famous Industrialist in Hong Kong, who invested three billion yuan, and as a highly educated talent with a professional background in engineering, Mr. Hu Yingxiang also made a lot of contributions in the planning and construction of the Humen Bridge, and the design concept of the Humen Bridge originated from Mr. Hu Yingxiang.
After the completion and use of the Humen Bridge, the daily traffic is endless, and now the daily traffic volume has reached 160,000 vehicles, and the daily bridge fee is as high as 3 million yuan, and Mr. Ying Xiang promised to donate the Humen Bridge to the country free of charge as soon as he recovered the cost of building the bridge. Mr. Hu Yingxiang's righteous deeds touched many patriots. In fact, as a Hong Kong industrialist and scholar, Mr. Hu Yingxiang is also very enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings, and his deeds should be known to more people. Today, let us understand the legendary life of Mr. Hu Yingxiang, a wealthy Businessman in Hong Kong.
Hu Yingxiang was born in Hong Kong, China in 1935, his father Hu Zhong made a fortune in the taxi industry, Hu Zhong's taxi king once resounded on the streets of Hong Kong, and to this day, there is a building in Hong Kong named after Hu Zhong to commemorate him. Therefore, it can be seen that Hu Yingxiang's family is well-off and his life is carefree, which plays a crucial role in Hu Yingxiang's good and comprehensive education and the formation of a gentle and easy-going character.
Hu Yingxiang was talented from an early age, and Hu Yingxiang's father, Hu Zhong, had always placed high hopes on his son, and he fully supported Hu Yingxiang's studies, hoping that he would be able to succeed in his studies and inherit the family property he had created. After finishing primary school and middle school in Hong Kong, Hu Yingxiang went to the United States to study under his father's arrangement, and he chose the science major he loved and was good at. In 1954, at the age of 19, Hu Yingxiang was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Princeton University in the United States for further study. During his university years, Hu Yingxiang realized the charm of Western science and technology, and also recognized the gap between China and the developed countries in the world, so he worked harder to learn scientific and cultural knowledge.
In 1958, Hu Yingxiang graduated with honors from the Civil Engineering Department of Princeton University in the United States. After graduating from university, Hu Yingxiang first returned to Hong Kong, and under the arrangement of his father Hu Zhong, he entered the Hu family's huge family business to hone his ability and character, during this period, Hu Yingxiang practiced the knowledge he learned during college on the one hand, and slowly accumulated experience in enterprise creation and management on the other hand. It can be said that hu Yingxiang's success is inseparable from the strong support and cultivation of his family.
In 1969, Hu Yingxiang, who had taken over the family business in its entirety, became increasingly dissatisfied with the current situation of the family business. In this year, Hu Yingxiang single-handedly founded Hopewell Industrial, a huge enterprise specializing in real estate, and Hu Yingxiang, majoring in civil engineering, even personally designed Hopewell Industrial's office building, Hopewell Building. Soon after the establishment of Hopewell Industrial, Hu Yingxiang actively sought the merger of Hu family business and Hopewell Industry, leading the family business to transform from the taxi industry to the real estate industry. Hu Yingxiang closely followed the international trend and successfully listed the merged Hopewell Industry, and at this point, the business empire belonging to Hu Yingxiang has been basically established. The business coverage of Hopewell Industrial Co., Ltd. under the control of Hu Yingxiang is very extensive, involving infrastructure investment and development, hotel management, engineering construction, catering and food and many other fields.
As a successful industrialist, Hopewell Industry led by Hu Yingxiang has a high reputation in the market, Hu Yingxiang and his affiliated companies have created great social value and made outstanding contributions to the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong in the last century, and Hopewell Industrial has actively expanded its international business, and in some developing countries in Southeast Asia, Hopewell Industrial has contracted the development and construction of its infrastructure and other important industrial bases, with high international influence. Hu Yingxiang and his Hopewell Industries have been highly praised by the Hong Kong media and foreign business community many times, and Hu Yingxiang's influence has also grown.
At the same time, as a high-achieving student studying in the United States, Hu Yingxiang won a series of rare academic honors and held many important social positions. Mr. Hu Yingxiang received honorary doctorates from two universities in Hong Kong and is a key member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. Moreover, Mr. Hu Yingxiang is also a life member of the British Institution of Civil Engineers. Mr. Hu Yingxiang holds important positions in the Hong Kong Logistics Bureau and the Real Estate Chamber of Commerce, and he is also the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Committee of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference and a director of the United Nations Association of China.
Mr. Hu Yingxiang is very concerned about the public welfare undertakings in Hong Kong and the Mainland. Mr. Hu Yingxiang has donated a huge amount of money to set up a bursary fund in major universities in Hong Kong to support Hong Kong students who are excellent in their studies but economically poor, and Mr. Hu Yingxiang has made great contributions to the cause of education in Hong Kong. At the same time, Mr. Hu Yingxiang and his Hopewell Industry also actively pay attention to the development of Chinese mainland, and Hopewell Industry actively seeks cooperation with Chinese mainland enterprises as a foreign investor. Mr. Hu Yingxiang funded the construction of primary schools in Guangdong Province, funded the Guangzhou Education Foundation and established the Guangzhou Huadu Education Foundation, making considerable contributions to the scientific and educational cultural undertakings of the Chinese mainland.
Moreover, Mr. Hu Yingxiang also gave back to his alma mater. Mr. Hu Yingxiang once donated $100 million to his alma mater, Princeton University in the United States, to fund the development of his alma mater's education, which is rare in the history of Princeton University. In the name of his father, Hu Zhong, Mr. Hu Yingxiang also set up the Hu Zhong Scholarship at the University of Winnipeg in Canada to support students from his hometown to study at this school.
As a successful industrialist, Mr. Hu Yingxiang and his Hopewell Industrial have made great contributions to the infrastructure construction of Chinese mainland. Since the implementation of China's reform and opening up policy in 1978, it has actively attracted foreign investment, among which Hu Yingxiang and Hopewell Industries have helped the mainland build a series of important infrastructure, the most typical of which is the Humen Bridge, which began construction in the 1990s.
Humen Bridge is a cross-sea bridge connecting Guangzhou City and Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, and after the completion of this bridge, it became one of the landmark buildings in Guangdong Province. At the same time, the Humen Bridge is also the first large-scale suspension bridge in China. After the completion of the Humen Bridge, it has greatly facilitated the transportation between Guangzhou and Dongguan, and many local residents will choose to take this road for play and work commuting. The Humen Bridge connects the main hubs in Guangdong Province and boosts the economic development of Guangdong Province and the Pearl River Delta region.
In June 1981, in response to the reform and opening up policy of the Chinese mainland, Mr. Hu Yingxiang decided to invest in the construction of the Humen Bridge to benefit the people of Guangdong and enhance the close relationship between Hong Kong and the Mainland. Mr. Hu Yingxiang's Hopewell Industry signed an agreement with the Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Company to build the Humen Bridge. On October 28, 1992, the Humen Bridge project was contracted by Hopewell Industrial and put into use on June 9, 1997. The Humen Bridge is nearly 16 kilometers long and nearly 36 meters wide, and is a two-way six-lane highway bridge with a design maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
Humen Bridge is a large-scale project that integrates bridges and tunnels, and it is also the first large-scale suspension bridge and cross-sea highway bridge in China. The Humen Bridge adopts the design concept of Mr. Hu Yingxiang and contains Mr. Hu Yingxiang's good wish to hold hands on both sides of the strait. The construction of the Humen Bridge is unprecedentedly difficult, and in this regard, Hopewell Industrial has provided key technical and equipment support for bridge construction.
The construction of the Humen Bridge project is divided into four stages, namely the upper part of the suspension bridge, the lower part of the suspension bridge, the main project of the auxiliary channel bridge and the main project of the land bridge tunnel. In the construction process of Humen Bridge, the construction team and technical experts cooperated sincerely to overcome the difficulties in the natural environment and construction technology, and finally delivered the Humen Bridge to use in accordance with the specified time, quality and quantity.
Mr. Hu Yingxiang is an advocate of the construction of the Humen Bridge, and before the construction of the Humen Bridge began, Mr. Hu Yingxiang delivered the project money of 3 billion yuan to the account in one lump sum, which is a rare large-scale transaction. In order to rush to present the Humen Bridge to the motherland before the return of Hong Kong, mr. Hu Yingxiang's great efforts are conceivable, and he overcame many obstacles in the process of raising funds to persuade the shareholders of Hopewell Industrial to give up some of their interests. Moreover, Mr. Hu Yingxiang publicly promised to the public that after the Humen Bridge was put into use and the cost was recovered, the Humen Bridge would be donated to China free of charge, and Mr. Hu Yingxiang's spirit of selfless dedication touched many Chinese.
Mr. Hu Yingxiang actively promoted the close relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland, and his patriotic efforts have been positively affirmed by the country. Since the completion of the Humen Bridge, there has never been a major failure, and the daily traffic flow on the bridge is endless, and this project has created at least billions of GDP for Guangdong every year, driving the economic growth of Guangdong Province. As a businessman who pursues wealth, Mr. Hu Yingxiang did not put interests in the first place in everything, he deeply loved his motherland, and after the reform and opening up, he invested tens of billions of yuan in the mainland, making outstanding contributions to China's reform and opening up.
Mr. Hu Yingxiang was a learned scholar and a patriotic industrialist. With the help of his own family's strength, he constantly pursued progress, and he did not regard his high starting point as a capital to show off, but as a step forward for himself. Mr. Woo Ying-hsiang has been named one of the Top 10 Outstanding Figures in Hong Kong many times and has been included in the Forbes Rich List. Mr. Woo Ying-xiang is passionate about public welfare undertakings and has made outstanding contributions to the cause of education in Hong Kong and the Mainland, and he has never spared his wealth. Moreover, in his daily life, Mr. Hu Yingxiang acts very low-key and simple, and he also strictly restricts and educates his children, cultivating them into outstanding talents who can contribute to society.