The fierce fighting power of the Xiangjiang media cannot be underestimated. The mutual accusations between Li Guangyu and Li Pengfei continue to ferment. Some media with ulterior motives also hope to make the matter bigger and begin to dig into the deeper reasons and comment on it.
As a result, not only the reports by Li Guangyu and Li Pengfei were later implicated, but the Xiangjiang government, the Li Group, its allies, and the British-funded consortium were all dragged into the water by people with malicious intentions.
Seeing that the current chaos in the press has had a very negative impact on the stability of Hong Kong, Governor MacLehose convened a Hong Kong media conference in the name of the Hong Kong government on the morning of April 2, with representatives from major newspapers and television stations at the helm.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Li Guangyu was even named by MacLehose and asked to attend the meeting in person and not to arrange for senior management of the group to do it for him.
Regarding Li Guangyu, MacLehose had quite mixed feelings. He was quite satisfied with Li Guangyu's contribution to the Hong Kong Economic Exhibition. He was even more happy about Li Guangyu's actions in Tin Shui Wai. The arrival of the Lee Group has boosted the development of the Tin Shui Wai area.
With the development, the economy of the poor and backward Tianshuiwei area has gradually been turned around, and people's quality of life has been greatly improved.
However, Li Guangyu's stance on designing Xiangjiang is not consistent with theirs, and there is even a feeling that it runs counter to them. It's okay if you are neutral, but you come out to criticize a spokesperson you selected.
As the news continued to spread, the members of the selection committee of the Hong Kong Business Association were criticized as worthless. The shady stories about this selection continued to be revealed. The members of the Business Youth League of this year were also exposed to various reputation-damaging incidents.
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If this continues, what qualifications does this Youth League have to go north to the capital to discuss the Hong Kong issue with the mainland's top officials on behalf of the younger generation of Hong Kong?
Not only did MacLehose himself hope that the public opinion would calm down this time, he was also given an order from the British mainland to stop the news about smearing the business youth delegation as soon as possible.
In the conference hall of Government House, MacLehose expressed his gratitude to everyone who came today.
MacLehose said: "Our current economic development in Hong Kong is hard-won. I hope that for the sake of Hong Kong's stability, everyone can suppress the current hot topics in Hong Kong. Such reports are not good for Hong Kong and everyone here.
Once there is turmoil in Hong Kong, everyone will suffer losses."
Some of the leaders of the newspapers here, including Ta Kung Pao, are not willing to stop these reports. They hope to discredit Li Pengfei and others to see how he goes to the capital. Even if he finally goes to negotiate, they can still
Influence is reduced to a minimum.
One of them, the chairman of a newspaper belonging to the same camp, said: "Mr. MacLehose, we in Xiangjiang have always advocated independent news. As long as our media is not false and slanderous, the Xiangjiang government has no right to stop our media from reporting news."
MacLehose knew very well what these people were planning. MacLehose said: "Freedom of speech in Hong Kong is our British government's commitment to all walks of life in Hong Kong. This has never changed. It's just that as a member of Hong Kong, I hope you won't do it for
For one's own selfish interests, the more than five million citizens of Hong Kong are used as bargaining chips. The stability of Hong Kong's financial society is what the citizens need."
Li Guangyu himself was not willing to get involved in this, but the media was chasing him all day long, and he had no choice. So he criticized Li Pengfei, who was in the spotlight, so as to reduce the risk of him going to the capital.
The impact on Hong Kong after the failure.
Now that MacLehose has come forward, he can just get away. These reports are indeed not very good for the stability of Xiangjiang, especially the subsequent reports are becoming more and more involved, and some reports even deliberately provoke Chinese-funded consortiums and British-funded consortiums.
The confrontation has posed a serious challenge to Xiangjiang's financial stability.
After MacLehose named Li Guangyu to express his views, Li Guangyu said: "There is nothing wrong with our news media's freedom of speech, but our news media must also assume the responsibility of maintaining social stability. Xiangjiang citizens do not need to talk a lot.
What’s the slogan? What they need is a stable working environment.”
Li Guangyu later elaborated on the incident and apologized for the negative impact he and his media had had on the Hong Kong Business Association and the Hong Kong government.
Li Guangyu called on the major media in Hong Kong to stop reporting on this incident for the sake of the stable development of Hong Kong. He also hoped that members of the Hong Kong Business Youth League would not talk about their slogans in public in the future. Hong Kong citizens do not need those things.
Li Guangyu is still very influential. After Li Guangyu finished speaking, Stanley Ho, Run Run Shaw, Qiu Degen, Oriental Daily, Ma Jia and Sing Tao Daily all echoed Li Guangyu's views and said that the media would stop paying attention to this incident.
Report, and also hope that Li Pengfei and others will not come out to make remarks that spark controversy among Hong Kong citizens.
MacLehose was a little distressed. If Li Pengfei was not allowed to promote his political opinions to the outside world and create the illusion that Xiangjiang citizens supported his views, what qualifications would their delegation have when they went to the capital to discuss the development of Xiangjiang with the mainland's senior officials?
In the future, without the millions of citizens of Xiangjiang to back them up, who will take this youth league seriously?
The leftists do not have a strong opinion on this. As long as Li Pengfei and others are restricted from promoting those views in Hong Kong, some pressure can be reduced on the negotiations on the mainland.
MacLehose said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Li Pengfei, as a political figure in Hong Kong, has the right to express his views on the future of Hong Kong. We have no right to stop him in this regard. Moreover, the Hong Kong issue is not just between us in Britain and the mainland.
It is also a problem for the more than five million citizens of Xiangjiang, and the citizens of Xiangjiang have the right to express their opinions on this."
Li Guangyu was too lazy to care about these nonsense. If some people hadn't reported that Li Group and Jardine HSBC were in conflict this time, he wouldn't want to worry about it. He would just wait for July to make some money.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. MacLehose and Mr. Li Pengfei have no problem expressing their political views, but he should not kidnap the wishes of more than five million citizens in Hong Kong, let alone criticize other people's positions and choices here."
MacLehose didn't know what Li Guangyu meant. Isn't it because he, Li Guangyu and the Li Group were dragged into the water this time, so he was unhappy. Every time such an issue comes up, countless Xiangjiang families start to pretend to be deaf. Especially...
When these upper-class Chinese families in Xiangjiang are asked for their opinions, they will always shirk their opinions with various excuses.
MacLehose said: "Mr. Li, some of Mr. Li Pengfei's remarks are indeed inappropriate. I will communicate with Mr. Li Pengfei after the meeting. We will avoid such remarks in future public occasions. Our Hong Kong government has always been very careful.
I respect your choices and will never force you to make any choice."
After Li Guangyu saw that MacLehose had left him and others aside, he no longer cared about Li Pengfei's problem. He himself had no ability to stop it.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. MacLehose, I will ask my media to stop reporting on this incident. I also hope that some British media can stop reporting on my Li Group and myself."
MacLehose was naturally happy to see that Li Guangyu could stop here. Without the vanguard of the Li Group, other matters could be easily discussed. MacLehose agreed to Li Guangyu without any hesitation and would contact British Capital after the meeting.
The newspaper stopped some reports on the Li Group and Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu then made a request to the media leaders present, hoping that after everyone goes back, they can withdraw some reports on the Li Group and him, and not deliberately create conflicts between the major groups in Hong Kong. The economic development of Hong Kong needs to be stable.
Regardless of whether they were left-wing newspapers or right-wing newspapers, for some reasons, they all agreed to Li Guangyu's request. Most of the neutral and neutral media were media with whom Li Guangyu had good relations, so they naturally agreed to Li Guangyu's request.