When it comes to Hong Kong's top richest people, Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung are two people to talk about. Fok Ying Tung and Li Ka Shing are two characters with completely different styles. Li Ka-shing is more shrewd, and his position is very simple, I am a businessman, not like Fok Yingdong, do not participate in politics.
After Li Ka-shing was criticized, he once said that God belongs to God, Caesar to Caesar, politics to politics, and businessmen to businessmen. In fact, Li Ka-shing is very simple, he means that he will always be a businessman, do not associate his business behavior with politics.
Fok Yingdong is different, he has fully entered the political development in the later period, saying that he is a businessman, in fact, he is already a politician. Fok Yingdong is willing to gamble everything to invest in Nansha, and the same is true, because Fok Yingdong's original intention was not to make money.
It is precisely because of the different styles of the two people that some people say that Li Ka-shing and Fok Yingdong do not have a good relationship, and even say that the two people do not deal with each other. The biggest evidence is that on the day of Huo Qigang's wedding, Li Ka-shing went to give gifts, and even left without drinking the happy wine. Why did Li Ka-shing not give face to the Fok Ying Tung family? You must know that on the day Huo Qi just got married, the whole of Hong Kong was sensational, almost all the people with heads and faces in Hong Kong went, and several chief executives and several richest people were present. Why did Li Ka-shing do just that?
But if you analyze it carefully, you will find that this is not the case at all. For example, if we go to a buddy's house, we will normally be very casual, go to the refrigerator to get something to drink, and so on. Even good brothers please eat, you can love to go without going.
If it is a relatively unfamiliar person who invites you to dinner, you must be very polite. If you understand this truth, you know why Li Ka-shing left after Huo Qi's marriage. Because the relationship between Li Ka-shing and the Fok Ying-tung family is very good, Li Ka-shing really has a big matter to deal with, so he expressed his intention to leave.
On the contrary, Li Ka-shing was so busy that he deliberately went to give gifts, which was enough to see the relationship between the two families. Some people may say that if the relationship between Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung is really very good, why did the Fok family not ask Li Ka-shing to support Fok Ying-tung when Fok Ying-tung died?
When Fok Ying-tung died in 2006, 10 figures were invited to Fu Ling, because of Fok Yingdong's special status, so there were 8 people from the political circles, of which Ho Hung-sun and Tsang Xian-chi were from the business, but they both came as politicians, the other two figures were Zhu Jingwu, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the other was Lee Shau Kee.
In other words, the only person from the business world among these 10 people is Lee Shau Kee. In other words, if Li Ka-shing is arranged, it is impossible to arrange Li Shau Kee. The relationship between Lee Shau Kee and Fok Ying Tung is also very good, and in short, under such circumstances, it is reasonable to arrange Li Ka-shing or Lee Shau Kee.
But if you are a member of the Huo family, how will you arrange it? You must arrange a relationship that is relatively less intimate, because the relationship is good, even if it is not arranged, people will not feel that there is any problem. On the contrary, if you snub a relatively general relationship, people will definitely feel uncomfortable.
From this point of view, Li Ka-shing did not support Fok Yingdong, but because of the close relationship between the Li family and the Huo family. Of course, Li Ka-shing is also very energetic, although he did not support Fok Ying-tung, but at Fok Ying-tung's funeral, Li Ka-shing still arrived early and bid farewell to his old friend. This also proves that the relationship between Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung is actually very good.
In fact, Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung have been working together in the business world for many years, and the cooperation between the two people is very much, and they were the first businessmen in Hong Kong to enter the real estate industry at that time.
In fact, the biggest cooperation between Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung was actually in the late 80s and early 90s, when the two of them worked together to successfully save the Tung Hao-yun family, because this incident even affected the course of Hong Kong's historical development from another angle.
In 1981, Li Ka-shing's career reached its peak when he acquired Hutchison Whampoa, becoming the first Chinese billionaire in Hong Kong to acquire Four Oceans. Fok Ying Tung invested heavily in the mainland, and at the same time achieved great success in politics and began a new chapter in his life, while their friend Dong Haoyun entered the end of his life.
Because of the outbreak of the global shipping crisis, Dong Haoyun, the ship king, was heavily indebted, and eventually he died of a sudden illness because of too much pressure, leaving a shipping empire with a debt of 20 billion.
Dong Haoyun is the eldest brother of Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung, and after his death, the eldest son, Mr. Dong, inherited the OOCL company. But by this time OOCL was already in tatters. In fact, the strategic significance of OOCL is very large.
At that time, Dong Haoyun founded this company not only to make money, but also to compete with the great powers and let China have its own ocean shipping company. After Mr. Dong took over, the pressure was enormous and the company faced bankruptcy.
After Fok Yingdong and Li Ka-shing knew about it, they decided to help. Fok Ying Tung first wrote a letter to encourage Mr. Dong to continue to support, and the two rich men joined forces to inject capital into OOCL to help the company successfully restructure.
At that time, Fok Yingdong invested more than a billion US dollars in OOCL. At the same time, Li Ka-shing also invested a lot of money in OOCL. Mr. Dong also took the opportunity to restructure the company's debts. After the reorganization, OOCL was finally reborn. Coupled with the fact that the industry situation is getting better, OOCL has finally succeeded in turning a profit. In 10 years, OOCL has successfully come out of the bottom.
Mr. Dong's ability has also been recognized by the market, and his tenacious will has won everyone's appreciation. In the early 1990s, when OOCL's new ship was launched, Fok Ying-tung and Li Ka-shing gathered to celebrate this historic moment.
Soon after, with the support of Fok Ying Tung, Mr. Tung went to Hong Kong's political circles to develop, and since then he has created an era of his own. If there was no Fok Ying Tung and Li Ka Shing, then there would be no later Mr. Dong, and even the Dong family would have had problems long ago and could not pay off the debt.
This matter Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung joined forces, and few people know about it. However, they actually secretly did a big thing, and this thing was not just as simple as helping the Dong family. In fact, the relationship between Li Ka-shing and Fok Ying-tung is definitely not as simple as we outsiders think. In 1978, Fok Ying-tung invited a group of Hong Kong entrepreneurs to return to the mainland to investigate, including Li Ka-shing. In the early 1980s, Fok Ying-tung and Li Ka-shing went to Shekou, Shenzhen, to investigate, and it was obvious that the relationship between them was very close.