1 July, 1997. One Reading Book ? ?· １?Ｋ ＡＮＳＨＵ·ＣＯＭ

Today is the day of the handover, and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center is particularly lively, with officials from China and Britain, as well as well-known people from all walks of life in Hong Kong, entering the venue one after another.

Kang Jianfei, as the richest man in Hong Kong, was also invited. Sitting next to him were Li Jiacheng and other wealthy people, and not far away there were Jin Yong, Shao Yifu and other bigwigs in the literary and artistic circles, all of whom had serious faces at the moment, sitting and looking ahead.

In the center of the stage of the hall, there are four flagpoles two high and two low.

The two flagpoles on the left are empty, the tall one on the right has the British rice flag fluttering, and the short one has the Hong Kong colonial flag. In the center of the four flagpoles, the five-star red flag and the rice-shaped flag are hung horizontally.

An English command sounded, and the British ** officer in a white military uniform drew his saber and stepped forward, followed by two columns of heavily armed British soldiers.

The British soldiers stepped to the right side of the stage and stopped under the rice flag and the Hong Kong colonial flag. At the same time, the Chinese Garrison in Hong Kong also appeared from the left side of the stage and walked to the left side of the stage under two empty flags to stand by.

Officials from both sides appeared one after another, standing side by side under the flags of the two countries.

"The flag-lowering ceremony begins, everyone stands!"

Including Kang Jianfei, all the guests and officials who sat in the audience to watch the ceremony stood up collectively quickly or slowly, looking up at the flag in front of them.

The military bands of China and Britain jointly played the march. After a short but passionate burst of music, Chinese soldiers came to the flag stand with five-star red flags and bauhinia flags, and then the British military band played the British national anthem.

In the music of "God Save the Queen", the rice flag and the colonial flag were slowly lowered. Then the "March of the Volunteers" sounded, the five-star red flag and the bauhinia flag rose one after another, and the Chinese at the scene could not help singing the national anthem.

Kang Jianfei was also singing silently, and some of the Hong Kong tycoons around him were so excited that they had tears in their eyes, and some of their expressions were very complicated.

The flag handover ceremony came to an end, announcing the end of more than 100 years of British colonial rule in Hong Kong.

In the next literary and artistic performance, Liu Dehua's song "Chinese" sang throughout the hall, and then Hong Kong stars competed to appear.

The most important of the party is "Pearl of the Orient" written and composed by Kang Jianfei, as many as 50 stars all took the stage, led by a little girl selected from the people:

"The creek bends southward and flows to the Xiangjiang River to have a look.

Pearl of the Orient, my love. Your style, whether it is romantic or not, is still there.

The harbor where the moon bends, the night is deep and the lights are shining.

The Pearl of the Orient, sleepless all night, guarding the promise of changing the vicissitudes of life.

Let the sea breeze blow for five thousand years,

Every teardrop, as if speaking of your dignity.

Let the tide be with me to bless you,

Please don't forget me, forever, yellow face ......"

Kang Jianfei turned his head to look at Li Chaoren, this gentleman had a faint smile on his face, but the smile was very shallow. Looking at Mr. Huo in the distance, Mr. Huo grinned so much that his teeth were yellowed by smoke.

Before the performance was over, Li Chaoren casually asked, "Mr. Kang, are you interested in exchanging shares?" ”

"What shares in exchange?" Kang Jianfei asked rhetorically.

Li Chaoren said: "Shares of Cheung Kong and Oriental Network Technology Company. ”

"Let's get back to it. ?? ? One Reading Book ???· 1?K?A?NSHU·COM" Kang Jianfei didn't want to talk too much, and watched the performance on stage seriously.

As the world's first Internet technology stock, as Internet entrepreneurship becomes more and more popular, EITC has not only not been submerged by the Internet tide, but has been set off more and more dazzling. In 14 months, the EITC stock price has soared to $203, and last month, two major consortia took a stake in the company, and the company also issued additional shares, and now has a market value of a terrifying $11 billion.

In January this year, Kang Jianfei and He Chaoqiong became the richest Chinese in the world with a net worth of $14.8 billion. As for last year's richest Chinese man, Zheng Zhoumin (Philippines), although his wealth is also growing, he fell to the fourth place in the list of Chinese richest people, and the families of Lee Shau Kee and Kwok Bingxiang are too strong.

At the end of March, the "Forbes Global Rich List" was released, and Bill Gates was the richest man in the world for a second time, with a net worth of $36 billion. Kang Jianfei's net worth has skyrocketed again with the growth of the stock prices of EITC, Sega Games and Paramount, ranking fourth on the world's richest list with personal assets of $15.3 billion. The fifth place is Lee Shau Kee, with a personal asset of 14.7 billion US dollars, and this gentleman's wealth is also terrifying. In addition, the Guo Bingxiang brothers, with a net worth of $123, rank 9th on the list of the world's richest people.

This year's list of the world's richest people is very interesting, several software and Internet industries are on the list, and Bill Gates is far ahead of everyone. The richest people in Asia have regressed as a whole, especially the ranking of the richest people in Japan, which has fallen the most obviously, while the Hong Kong richest people are unique in Asia, and there are actually several high-ranking people who have entered the top 10 and top 20.

Kang Jianfei ranks 4th in the world, Lee Shau Kee ranks 5th in the world, and Guo Bingxiang ranks 9th in the world, and the situation is very good. As for Li Superman, well, this gentleman is temporarily ranked outside the top 20.

The day after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the Asian financial turmoil struck.

From July to September, the financial predators represented by Soros successively overthrew Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. In late October, international speculators moved to Hong Kong, pointing the finger at Hong Kong's linked exchange rate system. Under pressure, the Taiwan authorities suddenly abandoned the exchange rate of the new Taiwan dollar, depreciating by 3.46% in one day, making the Hong Kong dollar and Hong Kong stock markets even worse.

Li and Guo, who have just entered the top ten of the world's richest list, have seen their wealth shrink instantly as the group's stock price plummets, and even the capital chain has problems. On the contrary, Li Chaoren can hold on the most, his Changjiang Industrial has a low debt ratio, there is no problem with the capital chain, and he also took advantage of the outbreak of the financial crisis to hoard land at a low price.

After the financial turmoil ended, Li Chaoren's net worth surpassed Lee Shau Kee and Guo Bingxiang in one fell swoop, and completed a gorgeous turnaround.

Of course, the financial turmoil had less impact on Kang Jianfei. Although he is the richest man in Hong Kong, he has no listed company in Hong Kong, and a large part of his wealth is distributed in Japan, the United States and Chinese mainland.

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In May 1996, Oriental Music Group, a subsidiary of Oriental Entertainment Group, acquired a small company in the United States and changed its name to Generation Records, and there were only three artists signed in the first batch: Britney, Beyoncé and Christina. After training for half a year in singing and dancing, the three girls formed the "True Destiny" group and officially debuted. Their first album was a hit, and the two title songs were composed by Kang Jianfei himself, and once ranked sixth on the weekly billboard chart in the United States.

In September 1996, after half a year of production, "The Legend of the New White Lady" was finally broadcast on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and it became popular in half of Asia.

In December 1996, Xu Ke's "Resident Evil 2" was released, and the zombie craze was set off again around the world, with a total global box office of 400 million US dollars.

In April 1997, the first Hong Kong International Film and TV Festival was held, setting up a number of units such as "Main Competition Unit", "International Youth Unit", "Golden Camera Unit", etc., which not only invited dozens of top filmmakers from all over the world, but also invited Hollywood stars to walk the catwalk at a sky-high price. During the exhibition, 142 Chinese and non-Chinese film and television works were traded, and more than 100 other works reached preliminary transaction intentions. With the full support of Kang Kim-fei, the film and television festival was extremely successful, providing a new trading platform for many small and medium-sized film companies and independent filmmakers in Hong Kong, and injecting new vitality into the declining Hong Kong films.

In June 1997, "Titanic", jointly produced by Paramount Pictures and Oriental DreamWorks, was released, causing a global sensation and sweeping the global box office of $1.835 billion, becoming the most in film history, a record that was only broken by "Avatar" more than ten years later.

In the same year, South Korea's entertainment industry sprung up, and the Korean Wave began to blow across the Taiwan Strait and three places in China. Among them, Kang Jianfei's company in South Korea took advantage of the trend and launched many Korean dramas such as "Dream of Stars" and "Blue Life and Death Love" in the past few years, and the record company also praised many singers such as Lee Jung-hyun and Lee Hyo-ri. The South Korean authorities once ordered to restrict the development of Kang Jianfei's company in South Korea, and finally under the compromise of multiple negotiations, Kang Jianfei gave up part of the company's shares and lost his absolute controlling stake, but was allowed to take shares in a number of Korean entertainment companies. Ten years later, industry insiders in South Korea often complain that half of the five major Korean entertainment groups are surnamed Kang.

From February 1997 to November 1998, after many ticket jumps, Blizzard Entertainment successively released "Warcraft 3", "Resident Evil" and "StarCraft", both of which were well-received and almost dominated the global computer game market. At the same time, Battle.net servers are booming.

In January 1998, the Hong Kong Film Development Council was formally established, and Kang Jianfei served as the vice chairman of the Film Bureau.

In December 1999, Oriental Media Group embarked on a 15-year global development plan, acquiring more than 40 newspapers, magazines and television stations in Europe, the United States and Asia.

From May to December 2000, Kang Jianfei became a shareholder of Tencent and Google, and registered and established a legendary game company.

In the same year, Golden Harvest Company was liquidated 9 months later than the original time and space, and since then it has gradually gone to the grave. Although the Hong Kong International Film and TV Festival has become one of the world's most watched film and TV drama trading platforms, Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas have withered and become the common memory of people in that era. The once glorious Oriental DreamWorks is also laying off employees year by year, with its annual output reduced to about 8, and a large number of Hong Kong artists have gone to the mainland and Taiwan to make money.

In January 2001, Kang Jianfei became a shareholder of Baidu.

In the same year, the online game "Legend" independently developed by Legend Company was officially launched, which swept the north and south of the country, and the number of online users exceeded 1 million at the same time.

In March 2002, Kang Jianfei ranked second on the Forbes Global Rich List and first on the Asian Rich List with a net worth of 51.2 billion US dollars.

In September 2003, due to the recession of the traditional record industry, Kang Jianfei began to vigorously integrate the Oriental Music Group, among which its subsidiary Singapore Sea Butterfly Records was dismantled and sold, the mainland Moyan Records announced its collapse, and some singers transferred to Xiongfei Records. At the same time, Kang Jianfei's record companies in Japan, South Korea and the United States continue to develop.

In the same year, China reformed the film industry, announced the commercialization of domestic cinemas, increased the access quota for Hong Kong films, and liberalized the standards for joint venture films. With the help of Hu Juncai, Kang Jianfei built a large number of theaters in China, and Oriental DreamWorks increased the annual output of joint venture films.

In June 2004, Siemens mobile phones suffered serious losses, and many reforms could not reverse the situation, so BBK began acquisition negotiations with it. In May of the following year, the BBK Group controlled by Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai successfully acquired Siemens mobile phones and reorganized them.

In the same year, Tencent was listed in Hong Kong.

In the same year, Blizzard's World of Warcraft became popular all over the world.

In 2005, BBK mobile phone sales ranked third in the country and ranked first among domestic mobile phone brands.

In the same year, Oriental Media Group developed rapidly, Oriental Music Group suffered continuous losses, its UFO Record Company was dismantled and sold by Kang Jianfei, and Xiongfei Records vigorously developed the online song business.

In 2006, Kang Jianfei became the fifth largest shareholder of AMC, the second largest cinema chain in the United States. Until 2011, the revenue of the American cinema industry jumped by 4.5%, and the American film industry was in turmoil, Kang Jianfei took the opportunity to complete the final acquisition of AMC and became the largest shareholder of AMC.

In November 2007, Alibaba's online company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the following year it launched Taobao Mall.

In 2008, when the financial crisis broke out in the United States, the U.S. stock market plummeted, and Kang Jianfei's Dream Fund took advantage of the trend to invest in 7 well-known American companies.

In March 2009, the Forbes Global Rich List was announced. Affected by the financial crisis, the number of billionaires on the list in 2009 fell from 1,125 in the previous year to 793, and the net worth of the rich has shrunk significantly. Kang Jianfei finally took off the hat of the second oldest man in 10,000 years and became the richest man in the world with a net worth of $43.5 billion.

In the same year, "Avatar", jointly produced by Paramount Pictures and Oriental DreamWorks, grossed $2.787 billion at the global box office.

In March 2010, Kang Jianfei became the second richest man again, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos became the richest man, and Bill Gates ranked third.

In May 2011, BBK launched the world's first smartphone before Apple. At the end of the same year, BBK was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the company's shares rose for a week.

In March 2012, the Forbes Global Rich List announced that Kang Jianfei once again became the richest man in the world, with personal assets of $73 billion.

In 2013, Kang Jianfei completed the integration of its cinema lines, forming a world cinema network covering Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Southeast Asia, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. In the same year, the relevant US authorities filed an antitrust lawsuit against AMC, and after Kang Jianfei hemorrhaged, the farce came to an end.

In November 2014, Alibaba was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In March 2015, in the list of the world's richest people released by Forbes, Kang Jianfei's personal assets soared to $116 billion, and Bill Gates, who ranked second, only had a net worth of $76 billion. Domestic netizens jokingly called Kang Jianfei "Kang 100 billion", and his 30-year-old eldest daughter Kang Zhenqi officially took over the Oriental DreamWorks and frequently appeared in newspapers and magazines, and was praised by netizens as "the world's first white rich beauty".

...... 2016

(To be continued.) )