Hong Kong Island's wealthy era

Chapter 8 Newspapers
Due to its unique geographical location and historical reasons, Xiangjiang has developed into one of the world's economic centers.The demand for information has resulted in the creation of hundreds of newspapers, large and small.

According to statistics, in 42, there were 1970 newspapers (Chinese and English, daily, noon and evening) in Hong Kong; this number increased to 1960 in 50.In terms of sales, it was around 90 copies in 180. By 550, it had increased to [-] copies, and in [-] it soared to [-] million copies.With a population of [-] million in Hong Kong at that time, there was an average of one newspaper for every three people.

Now in the 70s, there are about [-] newspapers selling millions of copies.This shows how influential newspapers are in Hong Kong.

Today, the three newspapers with the highest sales volume are Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily and Ming Pao.

Oriental Daily was founded the latest, but it developed rapidly. With a huge news gathering and editing team, it published horse scriptures and dog scriptures. In less than five years, its sales volume had surpassed that of two other newspapers, and later it became the leader in Hong Kong.

Ming Pao was founded by martial arts master Jin Daxia. By serializing his martial arts novels and impartial and impartial reporting, Ming Pao was favored by Hong Kong literati and became the most profitable newspaper.

Sing Tao Daily is the oldest newspaper among the three. It is sold to North America and Southeast Asia and has great influence.

When one rooster dies, another rooster crows.

How many chickens have died in the economic crisis we just experienced.New newspapers will surely break through and start to crow, affecting you, me and others.

This is also a good time for Lei Liquan to enter the traditional media industry.

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Before getting off work, Lei Liquan hung up the phone to Little Wildcat Li Yizhen and told him to call a truce tonight.Truce is not to avoid war, but to recharge our batteries...

Lei Liquan decided to go home and have dinner with Lao Lei tonight, but he didn’t know if Mr. Lei Jiahua had an appointment tonight...

Go downstairs, Pingzhi, driver and bodyguard Abiao.Target: Deep Water Bay.

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A few days later, Lin Changming submitted a report on the possible purchase of the theater report.

The first thing that caught Lei Liquan's eyes was the Yau Ma Tei Theater, known as one of the five major theaters in Hong Kong.

The so-called top five theaters were just a term used 20 years ago. There are only 500 seats in the Yau Ma Tei theater, and some of the facilities are outdated.

This theater originally belonged to Shaw Brothers Cinemas. Historically, Lei Juekun would rent it when he established Golden Princess Cinemas. It was not until 86 that he withdrew from Golden Princess and joined Nikkatsu Cinemas.

Of course, Lei Liquan didn't know the historical trajectory of the Yau Ma Tei Theater. Although the theater was relatively old and the surrounding residents were middle- and lower-class civilians, this was the center of the old district and had a very abundant customer base.

The location is very good, and we can make a lot of money from demolition and reconstruction in the future.

In addition to the Yau Ma Tei Theater, there is another theater that makes Lei Yunrong envious: the Queen's Theatre.

The Queen's Theater is also a theater with a long history, and the location of this theater is really great. It is right on Queen's Road. The flow of people here is very scary.

Moreover, Queen's Theater is one of the few theaters located in a building in Hong Kong.

Queen's Theater is located on the ground floor of Luk Hoi Tong Building. In fact, Luk Hoi Tong Building was built on the original site of Queen's Theatre.

On July 1961, 7, the building was completed and the Queen's Theater opened with the ribbon-cutting ceremony presided over by Sir Alex Chow. The Queen's Theater had escalators for audiences to use. Before it was dismantled, it was the oldest Hitachi escalator in Hong Kong.

This is not the most exciting thing for Lei Liquan. What is most exciting for Lei Liquan is that Lu Haitong Building is now also intended to be sold.

The owner behind this building is Lu Hai Tong Company, which is also an old real estate company in Hong Kong. Now it is also affected by the stock market crash and wants to sell the property to survive.

There are also five theaters owned by Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, as well as seven or eight independent small theaters.

Lei Liquan authorized Lin Changming on the spot. "You can make the decision within the 5000 million for the Hailutong Building, the 400 million for the Yau Ma Tei Theater, and the 500 million for the theater in the hands of Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong."

After receiving the instructions from his boss, Lin Changming immediately assured him like a shot of blood: "Okay, boss, there's no problem." After all, this was the first time the boss had given him a practical task. He was a mule or a horse, and he should have taken a few steps.

"Don't think that the downward pressure on the economy is great now, but others don't necessarily have to sell. You must lower your profile, be sincere, and don't be high-profile."

Lin Changming nodded to express his understanding.

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After Lin Changming left, Lei Liquan was tapping his fingers on the table and thinking: It's time to register Lei Ji Oriental Cinema Line Company.

He called his assistant Tian Yun in and told him that he and Zhang Dazhuang would be responsible for registering the theater company.

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I also thought that I was still keeping a low profile now, but I would no longer be so low-key soon. I had to pay attention to the safety of myself and my family. Thinking of this, I immediately called my bodyguard and driver Abiao to the office to explain everything.

A Biao, formerly known as Xu Biao.Swimming from the sea.

"Abiao, you immediately purchase four Mercedes-Benz vehicles and hire 20 professionals from a security company to ensure the safety of me and my family. I will discuss it with my dad. You will be the security captain from now on."

"Leisheng, there's no problem." Abiao was still so silent.

From now on, when Lei Liquan goes out, he will only drive a few Mercedes-Benz cars, which is both low-key and flamboyant.

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In fact, after arranging Lin Changming to negotiate the acquisition, HSBC's loan was successfully disbursed.

After receiving the money, Lei Liquan specially treated Shen Bi, a ghost guy, to a big meal, not only to thank him, but also to establish friendship with him.

It's true that this ghost guy will have too many resources in the future. Since you need to ask for help from others in the future, you have to establish a good relationship in advance. People will not pay attention to you if you make excuses at the last moment.

While eating, looking at this ghost guy, I couldn't help but think of Li Chaoren.The entanglement between these two people is really interesting to talk about.

Li Chaoren has not yet gotten acquainted with Shen Bi, and their acquaintance will take a few years to rebuild the Chinese Bank Building.

The Chinese Bank Building is also a building with great historical origins.It was built in the early 20th century and is located on Queen's Road in Central.

At that time, Central on Hong Kong Island was dominated by foreign banks. Chinese businessmen wanted to join Central but had no place to establish themselves.At that time, a real estate developer was building a commercial and office complex in Queen's Road Central. After the building was completed, Chinese people competed to rent it.

At that time, foreigners always considered themselves superior to others and disdained to live in the same building as the Chinese. Foreigners who had paid deposits withdrew one after another, so the building became an "independent kingdom" for the Chinese, and the name of the building was changed to "Chinese Row".

But historically, the Chinese Bank Building will be bought by HSBC at the end of this year. I don’t know if there are any other motives.

Because the building is very old and old, and because the Chinese Bank is located in the Central banking district with many high-rise buildings, the original Chinese Bank building has increasingly become a dwarf.

Then in 1976, HSBC demolished the old Chinese Bank and cleared the site for the development of new rental properties.

At that time, many real estate companies were participating in the bidding, and it was the dream of almost every wealthy person in Hong Kong to be able to connect with HSBC.

The current richest man in China, the Chartered Shipping King, went from nothing to the world's shipping king in just 20 years precisely because of the help of HSBC.At that time, HSBC provided unlimited loans to Pao Yugang, but it seems that HSBC also took a stake in Global Shipping.

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