Chapter 42 Chapter Six

On January 20, 2006, I interviewed Hong Kong Tourism Board Chairman Selina Chow for CCTV in Hong Kong, a beautiful Hong Kong woman called "Mrs. Zhou".In terms of age, if you go to the mainland, I think "Mrs. Zhou" has already reached the "retired family" at the age of "Mrs. Zhou".But the reason why Hong Kong's "Mrs. Zhou" is still "beautiful" is that like many professional women here, they are full of vigor and vitality, as if they will never be fettered by age.Sure enough, as soon as we met, "Mrs. Zhou" wore a boy's signature haircut, and expressed quick-talking, Chinese and English for a while, Cantonese for a while, and Mandarin for a while.As soon as I came up, I sincerely expressed "sorry" to her (because the interview dragged on until the evening): "Are you tired? You are off work now, have you been busy for another day today?" She said: "Tired is a little tired , but it’s okay, I’m used to it, let’s start.” After speaking, the slightly tired face entered the interview, and immediately became refreshed and smiling.

This is how we started talking. The first question of the interview, I remember that I prepared it carefully: "I heard that your tourism bureau, especially yourself, often said that although you are engaged in tourism, the products you sell are the whole' Hong Kong', what does this sentence mean?" Mrs. Zhou smiled, and quickly replied: "Oh, to promote Hong Kong? This is easy to explain. We try to attract many people here every year. These tourists play, While always shopping and consuming, at the same time, you also know about Hong Kong and understand Hong Kong. If you sell tourism in this way, isn’t it actually selling Hong Kong?” “So,” I asked again, “What are the principles you have always adhered to in your work?” "Mrs. Zhou" hesitated for a while, thought for a while, and chose an idiom: "Everything penetrates".

"All-pervasive"? Hong Kong is a place bigger than the palm of your hand, and the tourism resources are naturally limited. For decades, people have used all the methods they should think of. In 2005, in order to set off a new wave of tourism, the Hong Kong government placed the fifth Disneyland in the world on a piece of "land" created by reclamation from the mountains on Lantau Island. How many big countries are there in the world?How much land in those big countries stretches as far as the eye can see, can never be used up, and why should Hong Kong people snatch the "fifth" Disneyland in the world?

According to Mrs. Zhou's concern, Hong Kong has Ocean Park for a long time, and Disneyland was completed in 2005. In the first half of 2006, the third "theme park" Wetland Park was developed. If you want to start new projects next, you will have to be endless. Reclaim the land, right? It doesn't matter, there is no soil under Hong Kong's feet, but there is sky above, and the prosperity of the tourism industry can also develop into the air—— "Development into the air", what is this idea, what ambition? In the second half of 2006, another astonishing tourist move by the Hong Kong government was officially put into use on September 18. This project is called "Ngong Ping 360", which is currently the most special sightseeing cable car in the world, with a total length of 5.7 kilometers. Over the mountains and across the sea, like a giant stepping forward, it has been erected from Tung Chung in the west of Hong Kong to Ngong Ping, and erected to the foot of the "Great Buddha" on the top of the century-old "Po Lin Temple" on Lantau Island.Why is this new project named "Ngong Ping 360"?Because tourists sitting on the cable car can see Hong Kong's sea, mountains and rivers in a 360-degree view without any visual barriers. This "playing method" is novel and exciting, and outsiders have not thought of it. God”, Hong Kong’s tourism can make it lively for a while.

On August 30, in order to introduce and publicize the specialness and charm of the new project, the operator of "Ngong Ping 360" invited many media, and asked all reporters to take the cable car first, to try it out and test their courage.I have been admiring "Ngong Ping 360" for a long time, and I have been looking forward to the opportunity to sit on it earlier for "sightseeing", so I was so excited when I received the fax. I ran to Tung Chung early in the morning and was the first to board the platform , and walked sideways into the cable car with caution.However, the door of the cable car had just closed, and before I had time to calm down, a transparent glass jar took me and two other mainland female reporters from a high mountain at the starting point and slid into the boundless sea above.At that time, our nervousness and heartbeat, the three middle-aged women who were already mothers of children, screamed in their mouths, and each of them seemed to shrink back to a little girl in her teens.

"Playing is the heartbeat", this "jump", I think the success of "Ngong Ping 360" has a very good start. Then, sitting on the cable car, my eyes hurried back and forth, head up and down, looking at both the blue sea and the green hills that seemed to grow out of the sea.Looking at it, I found that the sea under my feet was deep and shallow, which was different from what I saw on land in the past?When I raised my head a little, oh, I saw white clouds above my head, which covered the sun in the sky, and projected my changing figure onto the sea. The four cable car stations of "Ngong Ping 360" in Hong Kong are respectively erected on four hills of different heights. The thick steel cables are bent and bent between each peak, so that the cable car always slides down and climbs up for a while. They all give people a flattering feeling, and they all make people feel safe and at ease.

Twenty minutes later, a one-way "yo" was over, and we got off the cable car. We were no longer afraid, but felt that we hadn't played enough, and wanted to start again, so that the return trip became easy and comfortable. The camera also starts to shoot me and I shoot you. I don’t know if it’s because people are too busy or machines are too busy.Afterwards, I finally freed up my energy to think about a question: "Ngong Ping 360?" Why did Hong Kong people design such a novel project first?Such a "design" is just to add a new type of tourism?Doesn't its pioneering itself reflect a mentality of Hong Kong people?a spirit?a trait?

A home with every inch of land and every inch of gold must dig out its brains in order to seek development. This "digging" has made up for many congenital deficiencies, so that Hong Kong's limited sky and land have given back many gifts to the brave, hardworking, and wise, and fed back one after another. An "unexpected" that surprised outsiders. Finally, I seem to have understood the "pervasiveness" of "Mrs. Zhou": Although "hole" is smaller than the world, it has a beautiful dream. Big, small "run" big, who can say that the "hole" in the eyes of Hong Kong people is not bigger or wider than the sky and the earth?