People in Hong Kong create super chaebols

As August approaches, the number of typhoons forming in the western Pacific seems to be increasing.

The impact on the Hong Kong region was relatively limited, mainly due to a few gusts of wind on the edge of the typhoon and several days of heavy rain.

However, the typhoon caused considerable damage in the northern coastal areas.

News about the destructive power caused by the typhoon spread quickly throughout Hong Kong, and major media outlets reported on it.

Among them, some news media that uphold a just stance have actively called on all sectors of society to lend a helping hand to the disaster-stricken areas and help the people in the disaster-stricken areas overcome the difficulties.

As the largest foreign-invested enterprise in Guangdong Province today, Sucheng received a call for help from the north as soon as the disaster occurred.

In response to this, Su Cheng gave an affirmative response without hesitation and expressed its willingness to provide necessary assistance.

On August 8, Su Cheng, with more than a thousand members of the Tianhe Bodyguard Company, drove more than 17 buses and dozens of trucks, loaded with relief supplies and wearing relief clothes, left Hong Kong and headed for eastern Guangdong and western Fujian to carry out relief activities.

The members of the bodyguard company these days are basically former soldiers and have great endurance.

Su Cheng's arrival was welcomed by relevant leaders, but the most important thing at the moment was to enter the disaster area for disaster relief, so things like greeting leaders would be left for later.

Therefore, under the guidance of local staff, members of Sucheng's Tianhe Bodyguard Company quickly joined the disaster relief efforts.

Of course, Su Cheng did not need to participate in person. He was more focused on inspecting the disaster situation in various places and then dispatching the missing supplies from Hong Kong.

After the typhoon, the once lush trees were uprooted or broken, with branches and leaves scattered all over the ground like debris on a battlefield.

On both sides of the street, billboards were crumbling, some were already shattered, hanging in the air, swaying in the wind, making a harsh metallic friction sound.

The road was filled with muddy rainwater, mixed with broken branches, fallen leaves and all kinds of garbage. The water was flowing rapidly, as if a small river had overflowed.

Some of the building's windows were broken by the wind, with glass fragments scattered all over the ground, flashing dangerous light.

The tiles on the roof were blown off, revealing the mottled internal structure. The rain poured in mercilessly, and the dripping sound intertwined with the sound of the wind outside to form a sad melody.

Vehicles were blown all over the place by the wind, and some were even crushed by trees. The bodies of the vehicles were deformed and the glass was shattered. The scene was horrifying.

On the beach, traces left by the waves are clearly visible. The waves washed a large amount of sand ashore and piled it into small hills. The cables of some fishing boats broke and drifted in the wind, while some were even swept away by the huge waves and disappeared.

The whole area is filled with an atmosphere of desolation and desolation, as if nature is furious and has reshuffled everything here, leaving people with endless sorrow and contemplation.

Su Cheng inspected many places, which gave him great impressions.

In the face of nature, human beings are indeed insignificant.

After more than ten days of intense disaster relief work, everything finally came to an end.

The members of Tianhe Bodyguard Company returned to Hong Kong one after another, but Su Cheng did not leave with them.

During these ten days, he generously donated more than HK$500 million for disaster relief operations and material procurement.

Although this amount of money is an astronomical figure for ordinary people, for Su Cheng, it is just a part of his concern for society and his willingness to contribute.

He donated without regrets. As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Now that he has become quite capable, helping these people is just a simple matter.

Now, with the increase of wealth, money is nothing more than a string of almost incalculable numbers in his eyes, because his wealth is increasing every day.

In addition to Hong Kong's Su Group, Hutchison Whampoa Group, Hong Kong Land Group and other companies, his overseas assets are also terrifyingly large.

He has a large number of branches in Japan, the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and other places, creating wealth for him every day.

Money, to him, is just a number.

While inspecting the disaster area, he found that in addition to many houses being destroyed, many schools were also destroyed.

The result of the school being washed away is naturally that the children have no place to go to school.

On this day, Su Cheng was sitting in an ordinary jeep in the suburbs of a town, inspecting a nearby village.

"Mr. Su, due to the impact of the typhoon, the roof was blown off and some walls collapsed. It has now become a dangerous building." The staff member assigned to him by the government pointed to a group of dangerous buildings and said with a wry smile.

Su Cheng nodded, got out of the car and walked in to take a look.

In the ruined building inside, Su Cheng also saw a blackboard that had been broken into many pieces.

Those tables and wooden benches had already been smashed.

At some point, two little boys around ten years old came near him and looked at the dilapidated buildings in front of them in silence.

"Kids, are you students here?" Su Cheng asked curiously.

"Well, we will be in the third grade after the summer vacation, but the situation now, uncle, do you think we have no place to study?" A slightly taller boy looked up and asked the strange uncle next to him.

"No, you will definitely have books to study. Maybe your new classroom will be brighter and safer and will not be blown down by the typhoon." Su Cheng looked at the dilapidated classroom in front of him, then looked at the two elementary school students, and said with a smile.

Previously, they were willing to donate supplies worth HK$500 million.

In that case, why not rebuild all their schools?

The amount of money he spent on donating to these schools was not much.

To this end, Suzhou City decided to build new schools for them in various disaster areas.

He told the local government about his idea.

After all, this kind of thing requires local cooperation.

Otherwise, even if he had this idea, he would not be able to realize it!
Only with the cooperation of the local government can he successfully implement his decision.

"Mr. Su, on behalf of everyone, I would like to express my deep gratitude to you for your noble character. At the same time, we have a proposal that we hope the school can be named after you, such as Sucheng Primary School or Sucheng Junior High School. We think this is very appropriate!"

After learning about this great act of kindness, the local government expressed their sincere gratitude to Suzhou and elaborated on their ideas.

At first, Su Cheng had no such plan. He did not care much about the naming of the school. After all, the school would have a reputation after the donation, so there was no need to worry about the name.

But after some careful consideration, he realized that since he had decided to donate, naming the school after him was actually a commitment to the quality of the school's buildings.

He thought, if there were quality problems with the project, wouldn’t it disappoint the expectations of students and parents, and might even cause harm to the students?

So, in the end, he gladly accepted the offer.

According to statistics, as many as 128 primary schools and 26 junior high schools were damaged in the disaster area.

In this era, the construction cost of building these schools is actually not that high, and labor can be said to account for the bulk of the cost.

After the statistical data was handed over to Su Cheng, Su Cheng decided without hesitation that he would pay all the funds for the reconstruction of these schools.

Now, he has no shortage of money. As a Chinese, it is his duty to help his own people.

Why do rich people do charity? It's just for a good reputation.

Su Cheng did not deny this.

Just like the Run Run Shaw School, Tin Ka Ping School, etc. that he knew in his previous life.

In the end, Su Cheng decided to dispatch the construction teams from Hutchison Real Estate and Su’s Real Estate.

During the real estate recession in the past two years, many real estate companies have suffered heavy losses, so real estate development in Hong Kong has declined significantly in the past two years.

Many of the professional construction workers have lost their jobs because of this.

However, Suzhou's real estate industry has not been affected by the real estate bubble and continues to develop according to the established plan.

At the same time, real estate companies in Suzhou are also recruiting more professional construction workers in the market.

Therefore, even real estate companies in Suzhou are not short of personnel.

In the 80s, over 150 schools were built at a much lower cost than in later generations.

Despite this, he generously allocated a budget of more than HK$300 million to ensure that the schools were built to the highest quality.

At one time, more than 100 Sucheng primary schools and Sucheng junior high schools in Guangdong Province and Fujian Province started construction almost at the same time.

However, the construction of a new teaching building is not something that can be done overnight.

Even for a rural primary school, although it has a simple structure and a large number of workers are deployed to speed up the construction progress, it will take at least half a year.

Therefore, how to solve the children’s learning problems in the next semester has become a difficult problem that needs to be solved urgently.

This problem is not difficult to solve. Finally, after in-depth discussions with the local government, Suzhou City decided to equip each school with assembled mobile cabins as temporary teaching places.

This way, the children will have a place to study when they start school in September.

Although the prefabricated houses may be hot in the summer, these children are from rural areas and have experienced more difficult conditions, so this little difficulty is nothing to them.

What's more, after October, the weather will gradually turn cooler.

The choice of prefabricated houses was also out of helplessness. After all, even for a powerful enterprise like Sucheng, it is impossible to build more than a hundred schools in just half a month.

That is not a realistic solution, but a distant myth.

Suzhou's decision was quickly spread to various provinces and cities through mainland media, attracting widespread attention.

Originally, although Suzhou City enjoyed a global reputation, its popularity in the mainland was relatively limited.

However, after this incident, Suzhou's popularity in the mainland has been significantly improved and its reputation has become increasingly famous.

To this end, CCIV TV News made special reports on the glorious deeds of Suzhou, leaving the people of the country with a deeper impression of Suzhou.

Engaging in such a large-scale philanthropy will inevitably bring corresponding rewards.

A good reputation is undoubtedly one of the most valuable rewards that charity can bring.

He donated to more than one hundred schools at one time, donated a large amount of supplies during the typhoon disaster, and personally led more than a thousand people to participate in disaster relief. Only Suzhou could accomplish such a feat.

In comparison, most other Hong Kong businessmen only donated a few million Hong Kong dollars. They neither went to the disaster area in person nor invested such a huge amount of money.

The reason why Su Cheng was so generous, in addition to pursuing a good reputation, was more importantly that he was a mainlander in his previous life and had deep feelings for this land.

Although he has become a Hong Kong citizen in this life, he always remembers that he is a Chinese.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, so I always spare no effort to give back to society and contribute a little of my own strength.

This is not something great; to him, it is just a small thing. Since he can help, why not help?
Su Cheng stayed in the mainland for a full month.

It was not until mid-September that Suzhou returned to Hong Kong.

Although Su Cheng, who returned to Hong Kong, is no longer in the mainland, he still often pays attention to the information there. The person in charge of the school reconstruction project has to report the progress to him every once in a while.

This incident was also widely reported by the Hong Kong media.

It is worth mentioning that the media that reported extensively this time were not those owned by Su Cheng, but rather media such as Ta Kung Pao, Sin Chew Daily, TVB, etc., which all continued to report on Su Cheng’s charity action.

After this move, Sucheng gained a lot of reputation.

Such reputations are not so easy to accumulate under normal circumstances.

In October, Su Cheng was invited to Hong Kong University again to give a speech.

Su Cheng once donated 100 million Hong Kong dollars to Hong Kong University to support the development of some scientific and technological majors in Hong Kong University. It can be said that he is now the largest financial backer of Hong Kong University.

For this reason, Su Cheng also has the title of Honorary Trustee of Hong Kong University.

Facing thousands of students from Hong Kong University, Su Cheng remained very calm.

Hong Kong University is not yet a world-class university, it can only be considered a regional first-class university.

Many professions still appear to be ordinary.

But Su Cheng knew that in the future, Hong Kong would already be qualified to be among the top universities in the world.

In recent years, Hong Kong University has actually provided him with a lot of help, and this help means providing him with many talents from all walks of life.

Therefore, Suzhou City is not opposed to supporting the academic development of Hong Kong University.

After the speech, Su Cheng made another decision and donated another 100 million Hong Kong dollars to Hong Kong University.

Compared to when Suzhou donated to Hong Kong University a few years ago in order to develop the technology industry in Hong Kong, the assets of Suzhou today are already many times what they were then.

At that time, he was willing to donate HK$100 million to Hong Kong University, let alone now.

Today, his net worth is at least hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

If you have thousands of dollars, would you care about one dollar?
It's basically impossible to care too much.

That's what Sioux City is like.

He now has assets worth hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars. Although only a part of it is in cash, it is only 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which he really doesn't care about.

Like donations to disaster areas and schools in the mainland, the total amount he spent exceeded HK$8 million.

But 8 million Hong Kong dollars is just a very small amount of money for him. (End of this chapter)