A few days ago, the news that female star Zheng Shuang earned 2.08 million on the day shocked the entire Internet. Many netizens said, "I know celebrities make a lot, but I didn't expect so much." Our 5G surfing in China has never lacked imagination and creativity. Therefore, netizens were shocked and specially summarized a unit of measurement for this phenomenon. is awesome = 2.08 million yuan/day .
The topic discussed today is also related to money, but the amount we are involved in today is per day income , and this number is still at the end of the last century. If we follow the inflation experienced in these 20 years, then the 3 million at the end of the last century, conservatively estimated that it is roughly equivalent to the current 80 million . If converted into refreshing units, it is close to 40 refreshing, which is Zheng Shuang's 40-day salary that shocked the entire network in the 21st 20s.
The person we are going to talk about today can earn 40 yuan by lying down and doing nothing every day. However, he waved his hand and donated the income to the country. So, who is this heroic person? Why did he give the huge amount of income that he could get while lying down to the country?
Humen Bridge , is a sea-cross-sea bridge in Guangdong Province, my country connecting Nansha District, Guangzhou City and Humen Town, Dongguan City. It started construction on October 28, 1992 and was completed and opened to traffic on June 9, 1997. The bridge starts from the Taiping Interchange in Dongguan City in the east and ends at the Nansha Interchange in Guangzhou City in the west. The line is 15.76 kilometers long, the main bridge is 4.6 kilometers long, and the bridge deck is a two-way six-lane expressway with a designed speed of 120 km/h. The total investment of the project is RMB 3.02 billion .
The investor during the construction of this bridge was called Hong Kong Hehe Industrial Co., Ltd. , and the chairman of this company is called Hu Yingxiang . Hu Yingxiang was born in a wealthy family in Hong Kong in 1935. His father was , known as the king of Hong Kong's "taxis" and Hu Zhong . Now located in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, , Hu Zhong Building, , is named after Hu Yingxiang's father.
Although he is a veritable rich second generation, Hu Yingxiang has received strict family education since childhood, and has shaped a sound personality and good character during his growth. Hu Yingxiang has also received elite school education under the conditions of a wealthy family.
1958, 23-year-old Hu Yingxiang graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, the top American university, , Princeton University. After returning to China, he accumulated some social experience in the Hong Kong construction industry and in 1969, he officially established his own construction company: Hehe Industrial .
It is worth mentioning that unlike ordinary capitalists who only serve as real estate developers, Hu Yingxiang, who loves construction industry, is not only a real estate developer, but also personally serves as the company's architect. As the boss of a real estate company, Hu Yingxiang actively strives for high-quality projects and makes profits from them; as an architect, he is responsible for buildings and often personally reviews its projects and supervises the construction of its buildings.
even designed the building himself. The headquarters of Hoh Industrial at Queen's Avenue, Wan Chai, Hong Kong "Hoth Center" was designed by Hu Yingxiang himself. When it was built, it was the tallest building in Hong Kong at that time and is still one of the tourist attractions in Hong Kong today.
1972, on the eve of a real estate storm in Hong Kong, Hu Yingxiang, who had a keen sense of smell, turned the leader of the company into the real estate industry and listed Hehe Industrial Co., Ltd. that year. By the last ten or twenty years of the 20th century, Hong Kong real estate entered a golden age.
At that time, on the Forbes Rich List nationwide and even the world, Hong Kong real estate tycoons were regular visitors for ten years. In 1997, the of the four major Hong Kong real estate families, Li Ka-shing and Guo Bingxiang families both ranked among the top ten of Forbes' global rich list.Also in that year, the total wealth of these four major families exceeded 44 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to RMB 360 billion .
What was this concept at that time? You should know that The largest economy in the country, Guangdong Province The annual GDP is only 50 billion yuan, which is less than 1/7 of the wealth of these four major families. Hu Yingxiang is also a beneficiary of this Hong Kong real estate tornado. In 1991, Hu Yingxiang ranked among the top ten richest people in Hong Kong, and the rich people active in this century, such as Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Xu Jiayin, Wang Jianlin , at that time, they had just started their businesses.
However, Hu Yingxiang, who mastered the huge industry, was not overwhelmed by wealth. He still clearly grasped the standards of making profits and carefully controlled the quality of the project. Hehe Industrial has also gained a good reputation in the industry. On the other hand, Hu Yingxiang has never forgotten his ancestral home Guangzhou Huadu . Out of return to his hometown, Hu Yingxiang has also invested in many industries in Guangzhou, such as Guangzhou China Hotel, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, Guangzhou-Zhu Expressway, and the Humen Bridge we will talk about next.
In 1992, due to the needs of economic development in the Pearl River Delta, the country expected to build a cross-sea bridge in the sea area between Guangzhou and Dongguan. However, at that time, my country's technology for building cross-sea bridges was not mature, so it was necessary to find a professional team to build through bidding. Considering the high difficulty of building of Humen Bridge, the high quality requirements and the huge project volume, the government contacted many professional construction industry teams.
After careful consideration, it was finally determined that Hu Yingxiang won the bid. The reason why Hehe Industrial was able to win the bid was based on the reputation accumulated by Hu Yingxiang for the company before. The so-called gold and silver cups are not as good as the reputation of the people. In this project that is used for the people, there is no "qualification" that is better than the reputation of the people.
After winning the bid, Hu Yingxiang also knew the significance of building this bridge. If the Humen Bridge is successfully built, it will not only rewrite the pattern of "one water across the world" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, but also lead the technological innovation in the history of bridge construction in China, and even have extremely important significance for supporting the "harmony" economic development of the entire Pearl River Delta region.
In Hu Yingxiang's view, building such a project is also the significance and responsibility of Hehe Industry to this society. With an attitude of being responsible for the quality of the project, Hu Yingxiang once again supervised the entire bridge design and construction process. In order to ensure the quality of this project of contemporary significance, Hu Yingxiang dared not relax at all. Finally, on June 9, 1997, on the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the Humen Bridge was completed and opened to traffic. After the completion of
, the Humen Bridge was the largest highway bridge in China at that time, and it was also the first stiffened steel box girder suspension structure bridge in in China. Its main span length ranks first among similar bridges in China at that time, and the secondary span length ranks first among similar bridges in the world at that time. This bridge with 18 advanced domestic or international engineering technologies and craftsmanship in China also marks the highest achievement in China's bridge construction in the 20th century.
After the completion of the Humen Bridge, Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, personally titled the bridge and called it a gift from the people of Guangdong Province to Hong Kong's return. Hu Yingxiang, the builder of the "gift of the times", also believed that he should return to Guangdong Province on behalf of the people of Hong Kong. So he said boldly that as long as he got back the cost of 3 billion, he would donate the Humen Bridge to Guangdong Province.
You should know that the daily toll for the bridge at that time was as high as 3 million yuan, and the 3 million yuan at that time was conservatively equivalent to 70 million or 80 million today. Faced with such huge income, Hu Yingxiang was not confused. In his opinion, as an entrepreneur, he was responsible for the development of this society, and the stronger his ability, the greater the responsibility. In that era when Hong Kong was about to return, nothing was more meaningful "dedicated" than to represent the people of Hong Kong and repay the entire income of the bridge to the motherland. After
, when Humen Bridge recovered its cost, Hu Yingxiang fulfilled his promise and donated the Humen Bridge to the Guangdong Provincial Government. The management agency of Humen Bridge is now Guangdong Humen Bridge Co., Ltd. , which is a state-owned enterprise, and behind this state-owned enterprise is Guangdong Transportation Group .
However, although Humen Bridge is no longer Hu Yingxiang's private property, every Guangzhou person has never forgotten Hu Yingxiang's name and his contributions. The Humen Bridge project is also more meaningful because of his heroic and righteous deeds. It not only represents the rapid integration and development of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, the highest level of bridge infrastructure projects in my country in the last century, but also represents the respect, love, reliance and dependence between the mainland and Hong Kong compatriots, and the sense of responsibility and conscience of modern and contemporary entrepreneurs towards this society.
Of course, more importantly, it reflects the friendship of a generation of Hong Kong businessmen such as Hu Yingxiang to not forget their roots and roots. In the past three decades, Hu Yingxiang's total investment in the mainland has exceeded 251 billion yuan , has invested in the construction of 371 kilometers of highways and 3.88 million kilowatts of power plants. is a donation of more than 210 million yuan of donations from mainland education, charity and disaster relief. It has been praised by national leaders as "a courageous and insightful entrepreneur", a "brave Chinese" and a "leader of foreign investment" .
In terms of public welfare, in addition to donating to the Humen Bridge, Hu Yingxiang is also particularly concerned about the country's science and education. In order to repay his hometown, he successively donated HK$210 million to build the Hu Zhong Experimental Building of Guangzhou Peizheng Middle School, donated HK$210 million to the Guangzhou Science and Technology Progress Foundation, and donated RMB2 as Huadu Education Fund.
In addition, Hu Yingxiang and the Hu family have also made great contributions to the education cause in Hong Kong. He has donated projects in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong College of Education . It can be said that Hong Kong businessmen like Hu Yingxiang not only made important contributions to the country's reform and opening up and the economic take-off between Guangdong and Hong Kong, but also played a good example for modern entrepreneurs to assume social responsibilities.
The reason why candles are great is that they are willing to warm others by consuming themselves. A charity businessman like Hu Yingxiang, who has been walking in dedication, believes that in everyone's heart, he has long surpassed a simple businessman, and is a great philanthropist and social righteous man;
His behavior has long surpassed simple profits, and is more about practicing the responsibility to the motherland and society. Hu Yingxiang's righteous behavior is in the present and the future!
