When it comes to Hong Kong billionaire Lee Shau Kee, many people are estimated to be familiar with it. However, many people know Lee Shau Kee because of his daughter-in-law Xu Ziqi. Xu Ziqi's attention is very high, almost the same as Guo Jingjing. Xu Ziqi was a star before and made many movies in Hong Kong. In 2006, Xu Ziqi married Li Jiacheng, the son of Li Shau Kee, and has since been known as a daughter-in-law of 100 billion.
Xu Ziqi's appearance is indeed very beautiful, so the attention has been very high. In fact, because of Xu Ziqi's reasons, many people ignore Lee Shau Kee's wealth. When Xu Ziqi and Li Jiacheng married, Li Shau Kee spent 700 million yuan to hold a wedding for two people, which shows Li Shau Kee's wealth.
At that time, the wedding was held in Australia, because Xu Ziqi immigrated to Australia from childhood, and then returned to Hong Kong to develop when he grew up. Lee Shau Kee chartered a lot of planes in Hong Kong at that time and sent all his relatives and friends to Australia, which cost Lee a lot of money.
In addition, Lee Shau Kee also bought a yacht worth 200 million yuan for Xu Ziqi and Li Jiacheng to use for their honeymoon. In addition, Lee Shau Kee also bought two houses, with a total market value of 200 million yuan to Give to Xu Ziqi's parents. The whole wedding can be said to be very luxurious, and even the flowers used are flown from the Netherlands. Xu Ziqi carried tens of millions of jewelry on his body, and the entire wedding cost 700 million.
In fact, spending 700 million yuan for Lee Shau Kee may be similar to us spending 700 yuan. Lee Shau Kee's total assets are estimated to be at least hundreds of billions. Recently, Lee Shau Kee spent more than 50 billion yuan in Hong Kong to win the last seaside plot in Central, Hong Kong, and the total price of this land has also set a world record, which is the most expensive land ever in the world.
Two years ago, Lee Shau Kee had just bought a piece of land for more than 20 billion yuan in Central, Hong Kong, and the floor price of this land at that time also set a world record. This time, Lee Shau Kee got another record in the real estate industry.
In fact, in 2010, Lee Shau Kee broke a record when Lee Shau Kee spent 1.8 billion yuan to buy a piece of land at the top of Hong Kong Hill from Hui Shixun, which was also the most expensive residential land in the world at that time, with a floor price of more than 2 million per square meter.
These three land purchases show Lee Shau Kee's true strength. In the 1990s, Lee Shau Kee used land reclamation in Hong Kong to build the Hong Kong International Finance Centre, which was completed in 2003 and was the fifth tallest building in the world at that time. This building weighs 500,000 tons, but it is built on a maritime platform, which can be said to be very powerful.
Of course, what is even more powerful is that after its completion, Lee Shau Kee attracted many top financial companies to settle in, and now the international financial center has developed into the world's most profitable office building, with an annual rental income of more than 10 billion yuan and a total market value of 250 billion yuan.
Wang Jianlin owns nearly 300 self-sustaining Wanda Plazas in China, and the total market value of so many Wanda Plazas is less than 400 billion, and Li Shau Kee's building is worth 250 billion yuan. In addition, Lee Shau Kee also has a Henderson Center in Beijing, which is also very valuable.
Lee shau Kee also controls dozens of mature gas management rights in Hong Kong and the mainland, which can make more than 10 billion yuan a year. Lee Shau Kee can be said to be a legend. Lee Shau Kee's father was originally a wealthy businessman in Shunde, Guangdong Province. His father attached great importance to Lee Shau Kee's education, so Lee Shau Kee could learn under the guidance of famous teachers from an early age.
When Lee Shau Kee was 6 years old, he was very good at mental arithmetic and was a local little genius. By the time he was 13 years old, Lee had learned all the alchemy techniques in his father's gold shop. At the age of 16, Lee Shau Kee became the big manager of the gold shop. Lee Shau Kee is definitely a genius.
When he was 20 years old, Lee Shau Kee took 1,000 yuan from his father to Hong Kong to develop. At that time, 1,000 yuan was a big amount. At that time, when there was a war in the mainland, his father asked Lee Shau Kee to go to Hong Kong to develop. After Lee Shau Kee arrived in Hong Kong, he opened a gold shop in Hong Kong. At that time, there were wars everywhere, and the gold business was in short supply. Lee Shau Kee also earned his first pot of gold.
By the 1950s, Lee Shau Kee, who was less than 30 years old, had made a lot of money. At that time, mainlanders frantically poured into Hong Kong, causing Hong Kong's population to soar. At the same time, the supply of housing in Hong Kong is seriously insufficient, so Lee Shau Kee believes that the future of Hong Kong must be the world of real estate. So Lee Shau Kee decided to develop real estate.
At that time, Lee Shau Kee's own funds were insufficient, so he found a good friend Guo Desheng to cooperate with Feng Jingxi. Guo Desheng is more than a teenager older than Lee Shau Kee, so he is the most stable, Lee Shau Kee is very smart, Feng Jingxi is also experienced, the three people have their own strengths, and the career development after working together is very smooth.
At that time, they took the names of three people to set up Sun Hung Kai Company, which began with the demolition of old buildings and reconstruction, and later bought their own land to build buildings, which quickly developed. In the 1960s, hong Kong's property market declined, and many people chose to emigrate to sell their properties. Lee Shau Kee and others seized the opportunity and frantically ventured to the bottom. At that time, they were always optimistic about the development of real estate and the development of the general environment, and in the end they won the bet.
In the late 1960s, the Hong Kong property market recovered, and Lee Shau Kee and others made a lot of money. By 1972, Sun Hung Kai was successfully listed. After the company went public, the three musketeers of real estate decided to break up and go their separate ways. Sun Hung Kai left it to Guo Desheng to manage, and Lee Shau Kee received 50 million yuan of funds and land to develop on his own.
Lee Shau Kee started with these 50 million assets, and in less than 10 years, he developed a Henderson Land property that can be equal to Sun Hung Kai. One of Lee Shau Kee's most classic projects is Sha Tin First City, which is the only collective cooperation between the four major families in Hong Kong, and it is personally handled by Lee Shau Kee.
The project, which completed Sha Tin in Hong Kong, is also the largest real estate project in Sha Tin, with a total of more than 50 supertall buildings. After the completion of this project, Lee Shau Kee has not been sold, until the peak of the Hong Kong property market, only began to sell, and finally Lee Shau Kee covered the market for 20 years, successfully earned 40 billion yuan. Lee Shau Kee later said that if the project was managed by him alone, then he could retire after doing the project.
In the late 1980s, Lee Shau Kee began to enter the capital market, investing in Japan's bond market, mainland blue chips, etc., and his assets soared rapidly. By 1996, Lee Shau Kee had reached the peak of his life, and this year Lee Shau Kee's net worth exceeded 20 billion US dollars, becoming the fourth richest man in the world that year. This achievement has not yet been broken by the Chinese rich. It can be said that Lee Shau Kee is the real richest man in Hong Kong.