Cao Guangbiao, the owner of Hong Kong's Wing Sun Group, died recently at the age of 101, and in the last moments of his life, he decided to donate his inheritance to Tsinghua University instead of leaving it to his children. Cao Guangbiao, who was originally from Ningbo, later went to Hong Kong to develop and became the largest sweater manufacturer.
In fact, since the early 1990s, Cao Guangbiao has donated a lot to Tsinghua University. Cao Guangbiao's move also touched many people.
Cao Guangbiao is a representative figure in the Ningbo Gang in Hong Kong and is also the pride of Ningbo people. Of course, when it comes to the greatest pride of Ningbo people, it must be the world ship king Bao Yugang.
In the process of China's development, Hong Kong's Chinese rich and Southeast Asian Chinese rich can be said to have played a major role, Bao Yugang's ancestral home is Ningbo, and Ningbo can have today's development, and he can be said to be completely inseparable.
When Bao Yugang returned to Ningbo that year, he pushed Ningbo to be listed as a separate city, and then promoted the development of a world-class port in Ningbo, and also donated to build the famous Ningbo University, and donated money and materials to build bridges and roads. Of course, Bao Yugang's contribution is not only in Ningbo, he has played a historical role in the development of China's shipbuilding industry, as well as the return of Hong Kong, and the economic stability after the return.
Ningbo can't forget Bao Yugang, while another seaside city, Xiamen, can't forget Chen Jiageng. In the history of Xiamen, there are many famous rich people, but Chen Jiageng is the most unique existence. He was the leader of the Nanyang Chinese at that time, and he was not only the richest man in Singapore, but also the light of the Chinese.
If you have traveled to Xiamen, you will definitely find this city, everywhere there are Chen Jiageng marks, from Jimei School Village to Xiamen University, Xiamen mentioned Chen Jiageng is even more proud. Chen Jiageng not only promoted the development of Xiamen, but also made great contributions in the early days of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the founding of New China. At that time, Chen Jiageng actively campaigned in Nanyang and called on overseas Chinese to return to China for construction.
Bao Yugang built Ningbo University, Chen Jiageng built Xiamen University, and Li Ka-shing, who established Shantou University, has a completely different reputation in the Chaoshan area, and many people may not imagine that Chaoshan people are not only not proud of Li Ka-shing, but even do not support him at all.
Li Ka-shing was born in Beimen Street, Chaozhou City, Chaoshan District, Guangdong Province. Li Ka-shing's father and mother are authentic Teochew people, his father was once a primary school principal, and his mother was a big girl, it can be said that Li Ka-shing's family is a scholar.
Later, because of the war, Li Ka-shing's family went to Hong Kong. After 1978, Li Ka-shing returned to his long-lost hometown of Chaozhou. In a later interview with Li Ka-shing, he once said: "At that time, my old family welcomed me very much, and my tears almost flowed out. ”
After that, Li Ka-shing donated a lot of mass apartments in Chaozhou, so that those young people who went to the countryside and returned to the city had houses to live in, and many of these houses are still there and have not been demolished.
Subsequently, Li Ka-shing donated several hospitals in his hometown of Chaozhou. Of course, if You want to count Li Ka-shing's greatest contribution in Chaoshan, it should be Shantou University. Shantou University 211 is the only privately funded university. Li Ka-shing has spent more than 8 billion yuan on this university for many years, and since the beginning of the previous year, Li Ka-shing has taken out another 2 billion yuan to waive the tuition fees of all Shantou University students, which means that you do not need to pay tuition fees to study here now, which is the only such university in China.
If from these perspectives, Li Ka-shing's contribution is not small, then why do Chaoshan people not like Li Ka-shing? At shantou university's celebration, Li Ka-shing used to attend every year, but in the past two years, because of his advanced age and the fact that he had already ceded the position of trustee to his son Li Zekai, Li Ka-shing did not attend.
In fact, in the past, Chaoshan people were still very proud of Li Ka-shing, after all, Li Ka-shing was a world-renowned rich man and the richest Chinese for many years. However, in the past 10 years, Li Ka-shing's reputation in the Chaoshan region has begun to decline.
If you've been to Chaozhou, you'll find that the hong kong richest man most popular among the people here is not Li Ka-shing, but a Hong Kong entrepreneur named Chan Wai Nam. If you go to Shantou you will find that the Hong Kong entrepreneur they prefer more is Lin Baixin.
On the interview with Chen Weinan, he may not even have 1 in 10 Li Ka-shing, but Mr. Chen Weinan has really made real contributions to his hometown over the years, rather than some superficial face projects.
In addition, the Chaoshan people's dislike of Li Ka-shing is also related to Li Ka-shing's behavior in China in the past 10 years. In order to help his hometown Fuqing get rid of poverty and become rich, Lin Wenjing, the richest man in Indonesia, invested in the construction of factories and ports in Fuqing, and also promoted many Overseas Chinese to return to China to invest and build, making great contributions.
But the strange thing is that Li Ka-shing never invests in construction in his hometown of Chaoshan Province, and the reason for this may only be known to him, of course, these are not the problems.
The Chaoshan people do not like the richest man in the Chinese world, or it has something to do with his means of making money. Li Ka-shing returned to the mainland to invest in the 1980s, but many of his projects eventually turned into hoarding to make money, and in the past 10 years he has successively sold a large number of projects and cashed out at least 250 billion yuan of funds, which have allowed him to invest in the UK.
But Li Ka-shing said that he was just a businessman, and he should not kidnap him with empty morality. It is precisely because of these controversial places that Li Ka-shing's reputation in his hometown of Chaoshan is getting worse and worse.
Recently, Li Ka-shing released a report showing that his Cheung Sil Group also has property assets worth more than 120 billion yuan on the mainland. This is also where Li Ka-shing said that he did not run.
However, many people now talk about not the problem of Li Ka-shing's walking, but his idea of making money. Many of his projects have not been developed for 10 or even 20 years, using slow development, avoiding supervision, and finally enjoying the rise in land prices.
So from a legal point of view, there is no problem in doing so, but from the perspective of urban development, Li Ka-shing has greatly slowed down the development of the city.
Many cities initially cooperated with Li Ka-shing in the hope that Li Ka-shing could drive the development of the city, but the result was the opposite of what they wanted, which caused many managers a headache.
From a business point of view, Li Ka-shing did nothing wrong, because he did so with the least risk and the greatest benefit. But as Cao Dewang said: "Businessmen can't even want their faces in order to make money." ”
In fact, Li Ka-shing really should study with his big brother Bao Yu.