"It's very strange. Most people think that when we were growing up, my father must have taught us how to do business and asked us to prepare for how to take over the family's business, but in fact there was nothing at all."
—— He Chaoqiong
In early October, He Chaoqiong ushered in bad news: because the bid was too low, the gambling license may not be saved.
Yes, Macau gambling license bidding, which has been tense for more than half a year, has entered the final return. The gambling license primary election has been passed, and all 7 companies have passed the primary election.
The most surprising thing is that , Genting Group, , ranked in the top three, and has a great momentum to win gambling cards.
On the contrary, the three companies that the He family entered the market ranked lower.
Before bidding, there were news from all sides that it was indeed difficult for the Stanley Ho family to keep three gambling cards this time.
This is probably the biggest crisis since Ho Chaoqiong took office.
In August this year, Ho Chaoqiong just celebrated her 60th birthday.
Because her mother Lan Qiongying died, He Chaoqiong did not hold a birthday party this year. On her birthday, she was still busy with gambling cards.
As you can see, the He family has not been easy in the past few years.
In the 2021 performance report released by SJM in March this year, the annual loss was HK$4.1 billion.
plus the 3 billion loss in 2020, a total loss of 7.1 billion in two years, and currently SJM is in debt of 22.8 billion.
And in the first quarter of 2022, it lost another 1.282 billion, and cash flow has only 1.7 billion left.
Not only SJM, but also casinos under MGM and Melco are also losing money.
As the current "talent" of the He family, He Chaoqiong naturally finds it difficult to calm down.
Just in May this year, Ho Chaoqiong and China Resources sold two office buildings and 210 parking spaces that Xinde had previously invested in Suhewan, Shanghai.
The buyer is Ordos, with a price of 2.67 billion.
Now the three He family companies are bidding for gambling cards together, and the margin is 15 billion. It is not difficult to take out this money. What is difficult is when will this loss situation end?
Looking back at the first half of her life, this is not the first time she has faced such a big problem. It’s just that the first few times, she fought back and was reborn in adversity.
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He Chaoqiong's first difficult problem in his life goes back 30 years ago.
He Chaoqiong was not as decisive and strong-wedding style as a girl.
She likes Shakespeare , loves drama and literature, and is determined to engage in art. After graduating from high school, she also got admitted to Vassar College in New York (one of the top colleges of liberal arts and sciences), becoming the only Chinese student who was admitted to this top school in that era.
Ho Chaoqiong's life can be said to be half regretful and half brilliant.
Her glory comes after regret, and she also regrets to achieve brilliant results.
Ho Chaoqiong's mother, second wife, Lan Qiongying, is the second wife of Ho Hongying, the gambling king.
When Lan Qiongying and Stanley Ho were not the king of gambling.
1962, 19-year-old Lan Qiongying gave birth to her eldest daughter, Ho Chaoqiong. In the same year, Stanley Ho happened to win the Macau casino franchise, so the superstitious gambling king once thought that Ho Chaoqiong was his lucky star and loved her very much.
In fact, Dafang Li Wanhua also gave birth to He Chaoxiong in 1962.
He Chaoqiong has always clearly known that his father loves her more purely because she is better and cute, but this love is never unconditional.
The picture shows He Chaoxiong, the big house. When she was 19 years old, she and He Chaoqiong entered the TVB artist training class together
. Therefore, her mother asked her to be responsible for everything since she was a child. She remembered it in her heart. She was punished for her brother and sister-in-law’s faults, and He Chaoqiong never resisted.
Even if it is such a big deal for studying for a major, her father, Stanley Ho, gave up her articles and went to business, and chose the International Business Management major at the University of St. Clay in the United States.
It is not a pity that she did not read art, but studying business is definitely a sign of her high hopes for her father for her family.
After graduating from university, Stanley Ho introduced that He Chaoqiong joined French banks as a leisure time. She drank afternoon tea and went shopping. Her life was comfortable but full of crisis.
Not long after, He Chaoqiong resigned. She used her connections and experience accumulated on various occasions to establish a public relations company and named it "Tianji".
That was in 1987, and Ho Chaoqiong was 25 years old.
"At that time, I thought that the family's business had reached a certain scale. Of course, I really hoped to have such a good background to learn, and I really hoped to use some of my own creativity, so I felt that I needed to experience in society."
How successful is "Tianji"?
Ho Chiang-gang Guo Jingjing's wedding was hosted by "Tianji". Dong Sheng's re-election election that year was prepared for "Tianji". Several top luxury brands LV, Montblanc 's businesses that radiate from Hong Kong to Greater China are all related to "Tianji".
Because of the vivid and vivid nature of "Tianji", the gambling king values this daughter even more.
When the Ho family's fast passenger ship business was not well managed, Ho Hongshen urgently summoned Ho Chaoqiong to return to Xinde Group to preside over the work.
Shanghuan, Hong Kong, Sin Tak Center , this is the most prosperous area in Hong Kong.
At that time, Xinde's core business covered multiple fields such as transportation, real estate, hotels and leisure. After the return of 1997, due to the overall national development strategy, the land connection between Macau and Hong Kong was no longer simply dependent on Xinde's transportation.
The entire economic environment at that time was unclear, and Ho Chaoqiong was facing a huge test.
"I am the youngest at home. I have a little different view of the situation..."
He Chaoqiong advocates finding the positioning of the enterprise in the development of the country.
Looking back today, you have to admire everyone's strategic height.
Her philosophy directly led to the cooperation between Xinde and China Travel Group . This cooperation is not outstanding in terms of commercial value.
But Ho Chaoqiong's advanced macro consciousness and keen forward-looking insights have begun to take shape.
In the same year, Macau returned.
2002, that was the critical moment of the last gambling card bid. The He family won one of the main cards and took the initiative in many years to come.
This battle is Ho Chaoqiong's foothold. She fought steadily and accurately, and her height and vision are amazing.
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He Chaoqiong and Chan Baiqiang , Xu Jinheng , Li Jiaxin , Yang Qilong , I believe everyone is familiar with the entangled past.
This emotional drama is a tough battle for everyone, and some even lose their lives and leave regretfully.
Regarding how He Chaoqiong met Danny Chan, there are various versions on the Internet, some say that he is acquainted with the world, and some say that he met on TVB set, but the editor thinks that He Chaoqiong’s personal words “I met at Lan Kwai Fong’s Night Pot” is more reliable.
Chen Baiqiang was also born in a rich young man. His family conditions are comparable to those of Leslie Cheung, who is a top tailor. However, these little rich families are all trash in front of the He family.
At that time, there was a full page of the newspaper’s scandal between He Chaoqiong and Danny Chan.
Hong Kong media has always been full of details, describing Danny Chan's performance in front of Stanley Ho as "the imperial performance" and "both horny and beautiful".
But Stanley Ho said in person, "I am dissatisfied with Danny Chan."
With Stanley Ho's attitude of loving his daughter, he has a few sons who are worthy of him.
The couple themselves said, "the lovers above AU are not full", "If you are braver, it will be different."
However, the past cannot be pursued.
In 1992, Danny Chan took a lot of psychotropic drugs with alcohol, died after falling into a coma for 17 months, at the age of 35.
At that time, He Chaoqiong had already followed the arrangements of his family and married Xu Jinheng.
At Danny Chan's funeral, He Chaoqiong insisted on helping him , and Danny Chan almost sacrificed her love for her with his life.
This relationship is full of regrets.
And Ho Chaoqiong in marriage is not happy either.
The right match in the family cannot make two people who do not love each other last forever, let alone these two people have too many choices.
In 1998, the media photographed Xu Jinheng entering and leaving Deng Kaixin's boudoir late at night.
2000 New Year's Eve, the scene of He Chaoqiong and Yang Qilong hugging each other and dancing hotly was exposed. He Chaoqiong's face looked calm. It seemed that she had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
Xu Jinheng also had to whitewash the peace when facing the cuckold given by his wife:
"Pansy and I are very good, and there is no problem with our relationship."
Several months later, they issued a joint statement of , saying that they have entered the separation process and are about to divorce.
The gambling king personally certified it, "The relationship between the two parents-in-law has always been bad."
In 2006, Xu Jinheng publicly was with Li Jiaxin, and at that time, Ho Chaoqiong and Xu Jinheng had not officially signed it.
With Li Jiaxin's character of doing everything, she posted many press releases to implicitly mocking He Chaoqiong, "Hang Xu Jinheng refused to sign."
He Chaoqiong was angry.
Because Xu Jinheng's parents had no good feelings for Reis Ka-xin, Ho Chaoqiong not only invited the two elders of the Xu family to have dinner every few days, which made Reis Ka-xin unhappy.
When Li Jiaxin’s wedding was html , she even took out her out-of-print wedding dress and exhibited it in her hotel, stole the limelight from Li Jiaxin.
gambling king also cooperated very well.
The old man, the gambling king, is actually very interesting. Like us ordinary people, he is essentially double-standard, and sometimes he speaks for a happy time.
He has three wives and four concubines, but he thinks that Xu Jinheng's fickleness is unreliable.
The media asked him, "Did you send blessings to Hengheng?"
He replied, "I don't know him!"
asked again, "Is this time the last time Heungheng got married?"
The gambling king said, "I don't know, he might marry ten or eight more times."
reporter said that Xu Jinheng and Li Jiaxin's wedding cost 20 million yuan, and the gambling king disdained , "My daughter's dowry is ten times his."
Reissue's nose is so angry.
What she pursued throughout her life was nothing but what He Chaoqiong was born with;
And she would never understand what He Chaoqiong had to bear. In this battle of
, He Chaoqiong is so beautiful.
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He Chaoqiong's third difficulty is related to Liang Anqi .
To be honest, Angela Liang is only two years older than He Chaoqiong. It really requires a little bit of mind to recognize her as her mother.
Compared with He Chaoqiong, Angela Leong is ambitious and action-oriented, and her background determines her style of doing things at all costs.
Liang Anqi likes to compare her momentum with her second wife the most, but she came too late. He Chaoqiong, , He Chaoyi, first appeared in the social scene. The gambling king, Stanley Ho, was step-by-step, accompanied him throughout the process, and watched her daughter fall in love with her husband and her brother.
Liang Anqi's children are too young. When the gambling king fell and suffered a stroke in 2009, He Youjun was only 14 years old, and the youngest He Chaoxin was only 9 years old.
They naturally spend less time with their father.
only has a few children in the second house. Their growth period is in the prime of the gambling king. They have witnessed their father's success and learned a lot of attitudes towards people and things from the gambling king.
After Liang Anqi entered the door, the overall situation of the He family had basically been decided, and she could only rely on external forces to squeeze out a piece of world.
After Xi Mihua had an accident, we also popularized the relationship between Liang Anqi and Xi Mihua.
Xiamihua sank into He Chaoqiong's eyes from beginning to end.
At the funeral of the gambling king, the former boss of the codec, , the godfather of Macau, was coming to see the gambling king off.
Originally, Liang Anqi had agreed, but He Chaoqiong refused, saying that his identity was sensitive and was not suitable for appearing on such occasions.
In He Chaoqiong's view, Bengya Koo and Xi Mihua are still gang forces in the past, and now they are the most influential people. The meaning above
, He Chaoqiong understands it. After the accident in
Ximihua, He Chaoqiong asked his casino to draw a clear line between his own industries, and also used this to cut off one of Liang Anqi's arm.
Once, Ho Chaoyi wanted to hold a concert at MGM. When Ho Chaoqiong's team was doing the back tune, he found that someone in Ho Chaoyi's team had ZZ problems, so he immediately stopped the concert.
On the issue of big things, He Chaoqiong doesn’t even give face to his own sister.
So, the fourth room, Liang Anqi, is far worse than He Chaoqiong.
In this battle, He Chaoqiong led the second house to stabilize the position of the heir and firmly controlled the family business.
Postscript:
Before this gambling license bidding, there were rumors that Liang Anqi would participate in the bidding independently.
However, with the arrest of Zhou Zhuohua and Chen Ronglian , Liang Anqi naturally knew that the family still had to be together at critical moments.
This time, she cooperated with the sisters He Chaoqiong He Chaofeng throughout the whole process, and needed money to adjust money and people to pay.
In the editor's opinion, the He family has a deep root in Macau, and there is little possibility of losing gambling cards. Ho Chaoqiong's pattern is obvious to all, and the heroine can survive even if she is desperate!
