Chapter 54 Is the university "holding" in the hands of the boss?

I once found that in Hong Kong, you will see that the rich are really rich and the poor are really poor. How rich are the rich in Hong Kong?This question is not difficult to solve. What is difficult to solve is what kind of relationship the rich people in Hong Kong have with this society, and what this "relationship" brings to Hong Kong society and determines what Hong Kong is. On June 29, 2006, Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" disclosed the news that "the richest Chinese in the world, Hong Kong takes the top three". It is not a foreign magazine such as "Forbes" in the United States, but the China Chamber of Commerce and the World Outstanding Chinese Entrepreneurs Association, which is the first top ranking list covering the "Top 500" Chinese businessmen and Chinese business enterprises around the world. On June 28, the results of the selection were grandly announced in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. There were as many as 47 rich people on the list in Hong Kong, with assets of more than 700 billion, which was nearly 1/3 of the total assets of all rich people on the list. In addition to the richest Chinese in the world, Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Properties' Guo Bingxiang brothers and Henderson Land Development's Lee Shau Kee ranked second and third respectively.

I don't know whether the fate of Hong Kong society, or how much of it will be in the hands of the "rich" in Hong Kong. According to the "Global Wealth Report" published by Merrill Lynch in 2006, there were about 8.7 million "millionaires" in the world last year, of which Hong Kong accounted for 80,000.The "millionaire" mentioned here is not the worth of "Hong Kong dollars", but "US dollars".If calculated in Hong Kong dollars, Hong Kong has a population of 7 million, and its per capita assets have already exceeded one million.Of course, most of this money is still concentrated in the hands of a small number of super rich. The super rich are like the pillars of a building, supporting their own glory and supporting Hong Kong society.This statement is very theoretical, how can we make "theory" concrete and sensible?A heavy curtain one day inadvertently let me see a small corner turned up——

In Hong Kong, many teaching facilities in many universities are generally obtained from folk "alms". This situation is not new in Hong Kong at all.However, let’s make a comparison: Back in the mainland, university teaching buildings in the mainland, especially 20 years ago, were either named after their academic nature, such as mathematics buildings, physics buildings, and chemistry buildings; or they were named after Arabic numerals 1, 2, and 3 But in Hong Kong, whether you climb up to "Hong Kong University" (far away on Pokfulam Hill), or take the train to "Zhongda University" (far away in the New Territories), or go to "HKUST", "City University", "Baptist University" "You can see buildings named after such-and-such bosses everywhere—the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is crowded by Zuo Tun and Hung Hom. There is no place to stretch out. The school can only rely on a few brick-red buildings. Surrounded by buildings, people can only see a relatively large-scale sky campus when they reach the P-level (podium) platform.In these circled buildings, Li Ka-shing, Stanley Ho, Meng Minwei, Pao Yugang, Run Run Shaw, Cai Jiyou, Chen Ruihuai, Chen Dahe, Chen Baoxueying, etc., the names of the big bosses are striking.You stand in the center of the platform and look around, feeling stubborn: the whole "PolyU" is like being held by several "big bosses" with both hands. Collapsed, the power of the government can't be seen here at least from the building, and the sponsor of the university didn't know if he had taken out of his own pocket when building this university?

Hong Kong is considered a society of rich people. Without rich people, universities may not be possible, at least not well. What about Hong Kong as a whole?Without the "big brother", is it impossible to play? Originally, I was interviewing at "PolyU" that day, and the specific activities to be filmed were two lectures titled "How can young people in Hong Kong benefit from China's rapid economic development?" ", "How to preserve "Hong Kong culture" under the influence of "mainland market"? "However, when I came to "PolyU", my feeling was first locked by a kind of "place". Because the lecture venue was on the platform on the second floor, my eyes no matter how I looked forward, backward, left or right. There is a circle of "Li Ka-shing", a circle of Hong Kong giants.Such a powerful temptation, such a wordless inspiration—if young people in Hong Kong want to succeed, role models are by their side every day. Compared with this enlightenment, any form and content of guidance must seem inferior.In particular, the method of the lecture is "cross-age dialogue". At the beginning of the speech, the speaker first introduced the amazing progress made by the inland economy in the past 20 years, then talked about culture, and casually proposed a few fashionable concepts Let the students answer, these concepts include what is "three representatives", what is "corn" and "fans", none of the students who participated in the lecture can answer.Standing at the back of the venue, the cameraman and I couldn’t help but look at each other and smile. We both know the meaning of this smile, but it’s very simple. It’s obvious that college students in Hong Kong have very limited understanding of the mainland. However, even if they want to know, The target is not "three representatives", "corn" and "fans".At present, what Hong Kong's university graduates need is employment, and they go north to seek gold.Why?Hong Kong is a tiny place, and the chances of another "Li Ka-shing" being born in the future are getting smaller and smaller, and if the young people in Hong Kong want to turn themselves into a new batch of "big guys" giants, go out of Hong Kong, go to Looking for a bigger stage outside, the mainland is an attractive road.