After several months of ups and downs, on February 14, 1986, which was also the sixth day of the first lunar month, Li Jianhui's special plane took off from Kai Tak Airport with his family, marking the end of a generation of legends in the Hong Kong business community.
In Li Jueshen's office of Xiangjiang Xinghua Society, in addition to Li Jueshen and president Xu Yuanwen, there were also Huo Yingdong, Charter King, Li Chaoren, Li Zhaoji, Zheng Yutong and others.
At this time, everyone looked very solemn as they watched East Asia TV's live report on the departure of Li Jianhui and his family.
Everyone here knows very well that the departure of Li Jianhui and his family will not only not end the public opinion and turmoil in the past few months, but will instead become a booster and a bigger storm is about to break out.
In fact, the situation has not been very good since 1986. Public opinion is fierce and a large-scale immigration wave has broken out. This can be seen from the continuous increase of flights from Hong Kong to Malaya by Xiangjiang Airlines.
In addition, the East Asia Film and Television Media Group controlled by a British-funded consortium is causing trouble inside, which has also caused more hesitant middle-class families and skilled talents to choose to leave.
At this time, East Asia TV clearly didn't care what Li Jueshen thought, and no matter what kind of turmoil it would cause, after Li Jianhui's special plane took off, it immediately titled the live broadcast room, "Legendary Curtain Call."
As the top host of East Asia TV, Du Xihui talked in the live broadcast room from Li Jianhui's rise in 1977 to today in 1986. From a poor boy from a single-parent poor family, he became a Hong Kong business leader and the world's richest man in just a few years.
When talking about the rise, Du Xihui, who was only 24 years old, even said that she has been a fan of Li Jianhui for the past ten years. Since she was fifteen years old, she has been listening to Li Jianhui continue to write business legends.
He even said without hesitation: "Mr. Li Jianhui's departure is not only a loss to the business community in Hong Kong, but also a loss to nearly seven million citizens.
Thinking back many years ago, Mr. Li Jianhui has always been rooted in Xiangjiang and has invested in multiple projects in Xiangjiang.
Without Mr. Li Jianhui, there would be no Tianshui New Urban Area and Tseung Kwan O New Urban Area today, and the North District would still be a slum instead of becoming the Hong Kong Electronics and Semiconductor Industrial Zone.
Mr. Li Jianhui once had a grand blueprint in his heart, and he wanted to work with the business community in Hong Kong to build Hong Kong into a city comparable to New York and London.
The young man who still had some immature appearance once shouted that in the information age, we in Hong Kong should also have the right to speak in this, and thus moved countless citizens.
However, due to various reasons, with the departure of Mr. Li Jianhui today, everything has become a beautiful fantasy for our nearly seven million citizens.
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A generation of legendary idols has left. As a fan of Mr. Li Jianhui, I would like to say goodbye to Mr. Li Jianhui on behalf of myself and the countless citizens who regard Mr. Li Jianhui as their idol. I also wish Mr. Li Jianhui and his family a better life in Nanyang, and I also wish Mr. Li Jianhui a happy future in Nanyang.
Nanyang writes new glory.
In order to commemorate Li Jianhui's legendary ten years, our TV station will produce a program called Legend of a Generation, which will be broadcast in prime time at 9 o'clock tonight.
This is the live broadcast of Mr. Li Jianhui and his family leaving, thank you everyone for watching."
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As East Asia TV entered the commercial break, Li Jushenye turned off the TV and said with a sad face: "Although East Asia TV has bad intentions, I agree with some of what they said, and I even felt that they said too little.
Li Jianhui's departure is not only a loss for the business community and seven million citizens of Xiangjiang, but also a loss for the country and nation.
In the past few months, we here have been trying to get through to Mr. Li Jianhui and the members of Donghua, but unfortunately we have had little success.
Even if the headquarters of well-known enterprises under the Tung Wah Association were put into use in early January on Tung Wah Road, including East Asia Building, Yan Bin Building, Phoenix Building, etc., it still could not change the determination of Li Jianhui and others to leave. Many buildings that were originally used as group headquarters are now also
It became the company's Greater China headquarters.
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Li Jueshen is also a person who has gone through great storms. Although he feels sorry for Li Jianhui and others to leave, he feels sad for the country and the nation to lose such a business genius.
But he also knows that he cannot immerse himself in it at this time. As the person in charge here, he must actively face the storm caused by the departure of Li Jianhui and others.
So the conversation changed and he said seriously: "Hong Kong is the city of our seven million citizens. Although Li Jianhui's departure will cause some turmoil, Hong Kong can still develop without Li Jianhui."
Think about ten years ago, when Li Jianhui was just a poor boy in Tiu Keng Leng Village. Our business community in Xiangjiang would not have developed as well without Li Jianhui.
Therefore, I hope that some of you can be confident about the future of Hong Kong. As the presidents of the Heung Wah Association, Sun Hung Association, New Asia Association, and Nanjiang Association, you almost include the Hong Kong Association except the Tung Wah Association, the Far Eastern Association, and the Nanyang Xiangjiang Branch.
Native family.
In the future, I hope you can increase investment in your industries in Xiangjiang and also increase investment in the north.
Only if you show confidence in the future of Xiangjiang and the north can the hearts of the citizens be settled and the talent of Xiangjiang will not be lost."
The few people present, except for the two Huo Bao who firmly stood in line, were all people who wanted to tread two boats.
At present, due to the large-scale immigration wave, both real estate and finance, which are the pillars, have been greatly affected. The stock market has been in decline for several months.
The exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar has also continued to fall. As of yesterday afternoon's close, the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the U.S. dollar had returned to 5.12:1 ten years ago. This is a very scary decline compared with the exchange rate of 4.25:1 in October last year.
Now that the stock market has plummeted, the property market has also plummeted, and banks have tightened lending. As a profit-oriented businessman, how can it be possible for a businessman to invest in this market on a large scale at this time?
And they really don’t know what they can invest in this market at the moment, because many middle-class families have left, a large number of existing houses are for sale when the property market appears, and there is no shortage of housing on the market. It is obviously not a good time to invest in residential development at this time.
In terms of the development of office buildings and commercial stores, the current market situation is also one of oversupply, especially in the past few years, the large number of headquarters clusters and commercial plaza projects completed and under construction by major associations have already exceeded the current market demand.
In the manufacturing industry, high land prices and labor costs have also deterred companies interested in expanding their production capacity.
As for the northern market, the turmoil has not stopped since September last year. At this time, they are not willing to invest a large amount of money.
Therefore, all of them responded to Li Jueshen's words in Tai Chi. While talking about being confident in the future of Xiangjiang and the North, they used various reasons to shirk large-scale investment in the Xiangjiang market and the Northern market in the short term.
Although Li Jueshen didn't say much, he had a different view of these people in his heart.
Before, he thought that Donghua, headed by Li Jianhui, would leave because of its too ambitious ambitions. Those who remained would be people who understood current events and would definitely be able to stand with the country and the nation.
Only now did he realize that he had taken it for granted. These people did not have as big ambitions as Li Jianhui and others, but they were still just profit-seeking businessmen, and to a certain extent, their feelings for the nation were not as strong as those of Li Jianhui.
Li Jue deeply believes that if Li Jianhui were in the position of these people at this time, he would definitely not get such a response. At least when it comes to large-scale investment in Hong Kong, Li Jianhui will never shirk.