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Fok Yingdong married 3 wives in his lifetime, and had 13 children, including 10 sons, which directly led to Fok Yingdong's large number of grandchildren and prosperous family members.
Among the many grandchildren, Huo Qigang is the most well-known, and his marriage to the "diving queen" Guo Jingjing is very enviable. It's just that judging from Huo Qigang's current development trend, he wants to take a road to politics.
So among Fok Yingdong's many grandchildren, who will become the future heir of the family's business kingdom?
The biggest possibility of this person is Huo Qiwen, the younger son of Huo Zhenhuan, the second son of Huo Yingdong's eldest son.
Why is Huo Qiwen the future heir of the Fok Ying Tung family's business kingdom? What kind of a person is he?
Today I will talk to you about it.
First of all, let's talk about why Huo Qiwen is the future heir of the Fok Ying Tung family's business kingdom.
This has a certain relationship with Fok Yingdong's arrangement before his death.
In 1978, Huo Yingdong made a will, allowing only the three sons of the big house to do business, and the children of the second house and the third room could only work as lawyers and doctors.
After Fok Yingdong's death in 2006, Dafang's eldest son Huo Zhenting took over the family's sports business, Dafang's second son Huo Zhenhuan took over the family's business kingdom, and Dafang's younger son Huo Zhenyu took over the family's high-tech industry and the Nansha project that condensed Fok Yingdong's painstaking efforts in his later years.
This arrangement of Huo Yingdong meant that the real head of the Huo family's real power was Huo Zhenhuan, after all, the Huo family's business kingdom was in his hands.
When Huo Zhenhuan handed over the family's business kingdom, he would give it to the eldest brother Huo Zhenting's child or his own child, most likely his own child.
Then Huo Zhenhuan had two sons, the eldest son was named Huo Qizhong, and the younger son was Huo Qiwen. According to the orderly tradition of the elderly and the young, even if Huo Zhenhuan wants to hand over the family's business kingdom in the future, it should be handed over to Huo Qizhong, why is it more likely to be handed over to Huo Qiwen?
Because Huo Qizhong was too uncontroversial.
It can be said that Huo Qizhong is Huo Yingdong's most indisputable grandson, he was once sentenced to social service orders for drunk driving and hit a railing, and he was arrested for hiding d at home, if it were not for his father Huo Zhenhuan to mobilize his friends to help, he would not have been released on bail.
Such a tainted son is very unlikely to become the heir to the family's business kingdom.
Compared with Huo Qizhong, Huo Qiwen is completely different, he has a good image, positive, has a strong interest in business, has strict requirements for himself, and attaches great importance to the maintenance of the family's reputation.
Although Huo Qiwen was Huo Zhenhuan's younger son, Neither Huo Zhenhuan nor Huo Yingdong coddled him, but instead strictly demanded him from an early age. Huo Zhenhuan would tell him directly that there were some things not to rely on him, but to rely on himself.
Fok Yingdong educated him militarily. In the restaurant, Fok Yingdong would suddenly ask him to stand up and squat to show him to check his physical condition.
When playing football, Fok Yingdong will let him play basketball instead of football to exercise his strength. Even in the weather of lightning and thunder, Huo Yingdong will let Huo Qiwen go swimming, when Huo Qiwen swims to the point of no strength, Huo Yingdong will let him continue to swim, and when he returns home after swimming, the young Huo Qiwen will cry and eat.
Years later, Huo Qiwen expressed his understanding for his grandfather Fok Yingdong's forced swimming, telling the media that his grandfather required every member of the Huo family to learn to swim because his two older brothers drowned when they were young.
Under such a strict education from his father and grandfather, Huo Qiwen became very self-reliant, and at the age of 15 he went to england to study, and he wanted to become a business strongman like his father and grandfather.
Fok Yingdong, who has experienced too many storms, does not want his descendants to continue to engage in business, he hopes that they will live a simple and ordinary life. One year, after surgery for lung cancer, he personally wrote a letter to Huo Qiwen, who was far away. In this letter, Huo Yingdong told Huo Qiwen that he was not him, not as strong as he was, and he advised Huo Qiwen not to take as much risks as he did, because he could succeed not only in personal efforts, but also in the development of the world, and the time and place were favorable.
It's just that the influence of Huo Yingdong and Huo Zhenhuan has gone deep into Huo Qiwen's bones, and he wants to follow in their footsteps.
Unfortunately, Fok Yingdong did not see Huo Qiwen's achievements in the business world, and he died of illness in 2006, and at Fok Yingdong's funeral, Huo Qiwen was arranged to hold Fok Yingdong's spiritual seat.
In 2010, at the age of 22, Huo Qiwen received a double degree in finance and accounting from Durham University in the United Kingdom. At that time, he planned to work in investment banks abroad for 5 to 10 years, and then start a business after gaining some experience.
Just when two investment banks extended olive branches to him, his plan was disrupted by his father Huo Zhenhuan, because the family business had many things and there was a shortage of people, and Huo Zhenhuan hoped that Huo Qiwen would return to China to work in his own company.
In the face of his father's invitation, Huo Qiwen made a careful consideration, he thought of his grandfather, and finally he decided to return to China, because he hoped that he could use his life's energy and ability to participate in the construction of the country and contribute to the society like his grandfather.
After returning to Hong Kong, Fok was responsible for property leasing, mainland real estate development and finance at Fok Ying Tung Group.
In order to make the family's old property produce greater value in the new era, he changed the layout of some properties, and after a long period of "cage for birds", many old properties were revitalized.
Huo Qiwen's performance has been recognized by his father and industry insiders.
In addition, Huo Qiwen was also involved in some affairs in Nansha.
In 2012, Huo Qiwen officially involved in the family's real estate business, he participated in the family's development of the Guangzhou Panyu Nantianmingyuan real estate project, for this project, Huo Qiwen is very serious, he from the drawing design, financial taxes, raw material procurement, construction progress, communication and coordination with government departments, he personally implemented every link of real estate development.
Someone asked him why he took the project so seriously. Huo Qiwen replied: "In the past, when Grandpa did real estate, he was very good in terms of market size and word of mouth, so we hope to inherit his will and do a good job in the reputation of Nantian Mingyuan." He also said: "If a person invests in the assets of the property, which accounts for a high proportion of personal wealth, then they should get the corresponding quality and service level." So we want to change that. ”
Just when everyone thought that Huo Qiwen was fully committed to the family business, he chose to start a business.
In 2015, while in charge of some of the family's projects, Huo Qiwen decided to start a business, and the fire of entrepreneurship has never been extinguished in his heart.
He chose to enter the cross-border e-commerce field.
In April 2016, Huo Qiwen's offline physical store "Zi post bank cross-border mall" "self-mail experience hall" was opened, and Huo Qiwen began his entrepreneurial career.
In the face of media inquiries why start a business? Huo Qiwen replied: "Although my generation has a better entrepreneurial environment and has the business resources accumulated by my father, I still hope to start from scratch like my grandfather and make a career on my own." ”
And in order to improve himself, but also in order to accumulate contacts, in 2016 Huo Qiwen enrolled in Ma Yun's Lakeside University. Recognized by Jack Ma, he became the second batch of students at Lakeside University.
Unfortunately, due to policy tightening and some problems in team management, the "Self-Mail Cross-border Mall" ceased operation on June 30, 2018.
For the failure of this venture, Huo Qiwen frankly said: "Starting a business is not easy at all, and I have paid a lot of tuition this time. "I took a valuable lesson myself."
However, these setbacks did not defeat Huo Qiwen, at the end of 2018, he returned to the e-commerce industry again, formed a new team, and created a "endorsement selection" brand in Guangzhou, operating in the model of "cross-border e-commerce + community".
To this end, he also moved to Nantian Mingyuan in Guangzhou in May 2018, returning to Hong Kong only three or four days a month. Now the project is on track and running very well.
When he graduated from Lakeside University in March 2019, Huo Qiwen reviewed his entrepreneurial journey, he said: "Three years ago, I threw myself into the unfamiliar Internet industry with full enthusiasm, and it is conceivable that this will inevitably usher in many difficulties, but fortunately I still adhere to the young entrepreneurial dream and will never give up easily." ”
Huo Qiwen has been recognized by more people.
In addition to his career, emotionally Huo Qiwen is not like some brothers in the family, he is very low-key emotionally, so low-key that everyone does not know whether he has a girlfriend now.
Even his gossip can be said to be nothing.
In 2009, Huo Qiwen and the gambling king's daughter He Chaoyun had a meal together, so the Hong Kong media speculated that Huo Qiwen and He Chaoyun might have a story, but later the two did not meet much, and the story did not come out.
After He Chaoyun, there are rumors that Huo Qiwen and Li Minzhen may have a story, and this Li Minzhen is not an ordinary girl, she is also proud, and her father is Li Guoneng.
Just when everyone was speculating about the relationship between Huo Qiwen and Li Minzhen, in 2017, some media filmed Huo Qiwen and eighteen-line actress Wang Xiulin walking out of the nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui together, and Wang Xiulin also spent 2 hours at Huo Qiwen's mansion in Kowloon District.
At this time, everyone understood that it was Wang Xiulin who originally had a story with Huo Qiwen, not Li Minzhen.
When the media asked about huo Qiwen's relationship with Wang Xiulin, Huo Qiwen bluntly said that "she is a good girl", tacitly acquiescing to the relationship with Wang Xiulin.
However, many people do not recognize Huo Qiwen's evaluation of Wang Xiulin, because in Hong Kong, Wang Xiulin is a famous "gossip girl", and she and the artists Aaron Kwok, Nicholas Tse, Huang Xiaoming, the rich Zeng Wen and Zhuang Jiabin have all spread gossip.
Huo Qiwen's mother, Chen Qiqi, also expressed her attitude toward Wang Xiulin, saying that she did not know Wang Xiulin and that Wang Xiulin and Huo Qiwen were just ordinary friends.
Without the approval of Huo Qiwen's mother, the Huo Yingdong family attaches great importance to the reputation of the family, and it is very difficult for Wang Xiulin, who is full of scandals, to marry into the Huo family, and in 2019, there are rumors that Huo Qiwen and Wang Xiulin have broken up.
I have to say that compared with other rich children, Huo Qiwen's several illusory and seemingly innocent scandals are simply "pediatrics".
So is there one thing that Huo Qiwen would rather ruin the family's reputation?
Not at the moment. Huo Qiwen said frankly: "What I have is more because of my grandfather, because of my grandfather's reasons, I have it." Grandpa's reputation is the greatest glory of the family, and I can't affect his reputation because of my personal affairs. ”
Therefore, it is not surprising that such a self-respecting, self-motivated, business-loving, and family reputation-attached Huo Qiwen will become the heir of the family's business kingdom in the future.