Chapter 375 The Fading 1995
Wu Bing didn't pay much attention to the auction in Hong Kong, because things here should be handled by his hands.
Besides, his identity is completely different now. His popularity has meant that after he arrived in Hong Kong, celebrities from all walks of life in Hong Kong invited him. Even the current Hong Kong Governor Patten sent envoys to pay tribute to Fan Wubing.
Fan Wubing attended the banquet of several important people and casually socialized, but when faced with the invitation from Hong Kong Governor Patten, he seemed a little hesitant.
Patten is a senior politician of the British Conservative Party. He has served as Environment Minister, Chairman of the Conservative Party, and is currently the Governor of Hong Kong.
Different from previous Hong Kong governors, Patten is the only Hong Kong governor who believes in Catholicism. He is also one of the few Hong Kong governors who does not come from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but from the Congress. Patten did not receive any honors before taking office, nor did he wear traditional colonial official uniforms when he took office. Because he is slightly fatter and his Chinese translation is very Chinese, he was nicknamed Fat Peng by the public and even the media after he took office.
Soon after taking office, Patten fell into a bad relationship with the mainland's top leaders. He said that he would reform the electoral system of the Legislative Council to speed up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong. However, the mainland government immediately expressed its dissatisfaction, pointing out that the central government's opinion was not consulted on the reform, and stated that it would cancel the relevant reform after the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty. At that time, many officials in Beijing accused him of being a poisonous snake and a thief. The then director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office even denounced Patten as an eternal sinner.
Since he announced the political reform plan, he has not been invited to meet with mainland leaders again during his term.
Under this situation, Hong Kong has seen a wave of immigrants, and traditional British-owned companies are also showing signs of withdrawing. However, Hong Kong's economy is still booming, especially the property and stock markets. At the end of 1993, the Hang Seng Index exceeded 10,000 points for the first time. During Patten's tenure, Hong Kong became the eighth largest trading region in the world.
However, Fan Wubing remembers clearly that after Patten left office, Hong Kong fell into the Asian financial crisis and the stock market faced a collapse. If the mainland government had not taken timely action and used hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves to support the market, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Fan Wubing was a little undecided about such a last Hong Kong governor who was deeply hated by the mainland's top officials. Should he accept his invitation?
But overall. This man is not a bad person. It's just that they have different political views but stick to their own positions. At that time, the central government was worried that the Hong Kong government would run out of money or run into debt before the handover. Then we reached an agreement with the Hong Kong government. Financial reserves of no less than HK$25 billion should be left when Hong Kong returns to the motherland. But when he left office. Hong Kong’s fiscal reserves exceed HK$300 billion.
so. After Chris Patten resigned as Governor of Hong Kong. I once visited Beijing. Received a relatively warm reception. It can be regarded as partial recognition of his work place.
After thinking about it for a while.
Fan Wubing felt that it was better not to arouse the sensitive nerves of the higher-ups. After all, his identity is different now. If you do anything, you will easily be caught and criticized endlessly. It is also easy to cause a lot of trouble to dad Fan Heng. So Fan Wubing declined Patten's invitation. However, I was asked to pick out a relatively valuable Chinese antique. Sent over. It's a friendly gesture.
But I stayed in Hong Kong for a few days. This year has been really eventful. Teresa Teng died of illness. Zhang Ailing also died of illness. Princess Diana of England was not sick. But he died in a car accident. Also in this year. Faye Wong's name finally changed back from Wang Jingwen. Leslie Cheung admitted that he is gay.
certainly. It's not all bad. At least Jordan is back in action this year.
Jordan could take off from the free throw line and dunk. This is an action that few people can accomplish. He was therefore known as a trapeze artist. Since 1991. He leads the Chicago Bulls. Won three consecutive nBa League championships. Two years ago. The father was suddenly killed. Jordan announced his retirement from basketball at the age of thirty. he said. I no longer need to prove anything in basketball.
Jordan's retirement caused Nike's stock to fall by three-quarters.
Jordan's basketball career only paused for two years. In March of this year, Jordan returned to the Bulls. His return brought many fans back to the basketball court and in front of the television.
It was also from the beginning of this year that Jordan led the team to continue the NBA's myth, completing its second three consecutive championships and establishing the Bulls dynasty.
Another important measure this year is that the foreign exchange coupons that have been in circulation for fifteen years have finally been abolished.
In the early days of reform and opening up, China's local commodity supply was still in short supply. In order to take care of foreign friends, the State Council authorized the Bank of China to issue RMB foreign exchange certificates starting from April 1980. It was not until the beginning of the year that it was announced that the circulation of foreign exchange coupons would be stopped.
After the founding of New China, out of the need for national security, the government formulated corresponding regulations for foreigners' activities in China. Foreigners must be accompanied by Chinese people wherever they go, and they must go to designated places. U.S. dollars cannot be exchanged for RMB. They can only be used in foreign-related stores such as Friendship Store with foreign exchange certificates.
Until the 1980s, foreigners were still subject to great restrictions in China. For example, if you go to the suburbs or the countryside to play, you have to go back to live in the city at night.
It was not until the 1990s that I gradually became less aware of it.
Around the Spring Festival, the Hong Kong movie "Red Zone" was introduced to the mainland in the name of a Lunar New Year film location. "Red Zone" stars Hong Kong actors Jackie Chan and Anita Mui. It tells the story of Hong Kong policeman Ma Hanqiang who bravely fights gangs in New York, USA. "Red Zone" ranked second in national box office revenue that year after the Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies".
After Rumble in the Bronx entered the mainland, mainland Chinese New Year films such as Party A and Party B, See You Tomorrow, Endless, and Cell Phone were released one after another, becoming another choice for ordinary people during the Spring Festival.
This year is also the 100th anniversary of the birth of world cinema. Ten American Hollywood blockbusters such as True Lies and The Lion King entered China, which really made the Chinese feel the high-quality audio-visual enjoyment of American blockbusters.
In the United States, cultural products mainly based on movies have become an important export content after the aviation industry and the food industry. It also provides more than 17 million jobs in the United States. Cultural and entertainment exports are replacing the more tangible automobile manufacturing, steel and financial services industries, and are quickly becoming a new driver of global economic growth. ”
It was also in this year that computer vendors sold one million computers in China, and more than three million computers were sold in households.
The computer also changed the fate of a female college student.
In May this year, a female college student named Zhu Ling from Tsinghua University suddenly lost her head and had convulsions all over her body. She fell into a coma after being sent to the hospital. The hospital conducted repeated examinations but could not find the cause of the disease and had no way to prescribe medicine.
A classmate of Zhu Ling in high school was studying at Peking University. He posted Zhu Ling's symptoms on the Internet at Peking University and asked for help from netizens around the world. A few hours later, hundreds of diagnostic information came from all over the world. Many messages from all over the country were transmitted to computer screens, and they all believed that Zhu Ling might have been poisoned.
Based on the information obtained from the Internet, the hospital later confirmed that Zhu Ling was indeed poisoned and began to prescribe the right medicine. In January of the following year, Zhu Ling was discharged from the hospital. For the first time, the Chinese people felt that there is strength in numbers. This famous saying was confirmed on the Internet.
However, during the few days in Hong Kong, there were also things that made Fan Wubing feel upset.
On the first day, he attended the welcoming dinner hosted by the head of the Hong Kong branch of Fan Investment Group. In order to please Fan Wubing, the head of this branch specially invited many business celebrities and actresses from the entertainment industry to attend. , making the dinner quite lively.
Many of the pretty actresses didn't care about their poor Mandarin and came to Fan Wubing to get close to him. In addition to hoping that Fan Wubing would be interested in them, they also wanted to take a photo with him. You should know that Fan Wubing's current net worth is already quite amazing, so if you can have the opportunity to get in touch with him, you must try your best.
As a result, the next day, Fan Wubing found that there were many tabloids on the street, which were full of gossips about him and the actresses.
"The Hong Kong media is really gossipy--" Fan Wubing flipped through a few pages and said. After that, his face turned green.
If they wrote it this way, he would not be a young and promising business tycoon, but a pure Ximen Qing who was promiscuous. It seemed that all the beautiful actresses from the age of 14 to 40 had secrets with him that he had to tell them.
The most disgusting thing was not this, but that some of the revelations were purely described in the identity of the actresses in question. Seeing those bus drivers who had changed their poses for who knows how many times talking about their intimate relationship with him, Fan Wubing felt like vomiting.
The person in charge of Fan's Investment Group in Hong Kong saw Fan Wubing flipping through those gossip magazines in the hotel with a dark face, and immediately said with some trepidation, "Speech is open in Hong Kong, and the media is even more unscrupulous, especially after the emergence of Apple magazine, which specializes in creating gimmicks based on people and people, and the content is also some groundless gossip, and even many of them are malicious slanders made out of nothing. However, Hong Kong people like to read this kind of thing, and the parties involved do not seem to be offended, but think that this can increase their popularity. Under this cycle, the media in Hong Kong has become uncontrollable. "
"I'd better go back early. I'm just creating topics for them here for nothing, and they don't pay me a penny for advertising." Fan Wubing was helpless about this.
Therefore, Fan Wubing returned to China in a low-key manner, which made him look a little guilty. For this reason, the Hong Kong media launched a new round of topic hype, mainly focusing on the various speculations caused by Fan Wubing's close relationship with the actresses.
Until Fan Wubing returned to Beijing and did a routine physical examination for the old man, he asked for the first time, "Is your affair with so-and-so true or false?"
"?" Fan Wubing was stunned.
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