Chapter 335 Don’t Despise the Poor Youngsters 2 Shock and Collapse
The leader, Guo Lingyu, is the current chairman of the board of directors of the Singapore Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.
Guo Lingyu's ancestral home is Tong'an, Fujian. He is the second son of Guo Fangfeng, a famous wealthy businessman in Nanyang and the founder of Hong Leong Group, and the successor of Hong Leong Group.
His father, Guo Fangfeng, was named one of the world's top ten richest Chinese businessmen by Forbes magazine.
In the 1980s, "Investors", an American financial magazine, reported: "There are 12 richest bankers in the world, and their wealth is more than 1 billion US dollars. Five of these 12 people are Chinese..." The Among the 12 people who wrote, Guo Fangfeng ranked second. Hong Kong's "Far Eastern Economic Review" listed him among the "Top 10 Richest People in Asia". According to statistics from the eight listed companies controlled by the group in Singapore and Malaysia, the total assets in 1989 were 5.8 billion Singapore dollars. There are more than 100 companies under Hong Leong Group, including real estate, hotel, shipbuilding, trading, insurance agency, etc., which are among the best in Singapore.
Wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a dark suit, a white shirt and a dark tie, President Guo Lingyu looked very elegant, with a polite smile on his face. He was in the presence of Vice President Jiang Changsheng and Diane Yang and others. Accompanied by him, he walked towards the corner where Cai Dong, Li Xiaofan and others were.
Along the way, entrepreneurs on the side greeted them one after another. President Guo Lingyu and Vice President Jiang Changsheng nodded politely in return.
Seeing President Guo Lingyu and others walking toward him with smiles on their faces, Bosses such as Director Qiu, Director Cai, and Director Xu were inexplicably excited: Oh, damn, I am so proud today!
Although Dong Qiu, Dong Cai and Dong Xu are worth more than 100 million Singapore dollars, in terms of total wealth, contribution to the Chinese community, and the way they conduct themselves, they are far behind Singapore China. Those big guys from the General Chamber of Commerce.
The 48th Executive Board of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, elected last year in 1995, consists of 26 people in total, including the president and vice president and the president and deputy directors of 11 groups including the general affairs group and finance group. All of them are highly respected, not only very successful in business, but also very influential in the business and political circles in their conduct. Another vice president, Zheng Minchuan, was appointed by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 1997 as the first batch of official members of the National Assembly in his previous life.
The Singapore Chinese Entrepreneurs Association has great influence in Southeast Asia. They initiated and hosted the first World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference. Even Singaporean Prime Minister Lee was invited to attend and personally presided over the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech.
Its influence in Singapore’s political and business circles is evident!
"Lao Cai, why are our brothers so proud today? President Guo and the others came to see us in person?"
"Dr. Qiu, doesn't President Guo want to come to our brother to play ball for a few weekends? Haha?"
"Director Xu, maybe Chairman Guo wants to cooperate with you to develop your rubber plantation in Malaysia..."
Seeing Chairman Guo and his party coming over, the three bosses started teasing each other proudly.
The bosses around Director Qiu and the other three have much smaller businesses than they do, and they are all worth only tens of millions of Singapore dollars. So if Chairman Guo and the others came to this corner, who else could they look for besides their three big bosses?
Therefore, Dong Qiu, Dong Cai and Dong Xu couldn't help but start shouting.
After seeing President Guo Lingyu, Vice President Jiang Changsheng and others approaching with their iconic smiles, Director Qiu, Director Cai and Director Xu couldn't help but stretched out their hands, waiting to shake hands with the two presidents. .
However, what the three of them never expected was that after President Guo Lingyu, Vice President Jiang Changsheng and others nodded politely to them, they did not stop and walked directly to the young man from mainland China whom they had just ridiculed. before.
After the group came to Li Xiaofan, Diana Yang, who was next to President Guo Lingyu, introduced Li Xiaofan with a smile: "Director Li, this is President Guo of our Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce!"
Then she introduced to President Guo Lingyu: "President Guo, this is Li Xiaofan!"
President Guo Lingyu enthusiastically extended his hand and said: "Hello, Mr. Li, it's a pleasure to meet you! You are indeed a talented young man! Mr. Li, I am very glad that you can accept the invitation to join our Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and attend today's activities of our chamber of commerce." !”
Dong Qiu, Dong Cai and Dong Xu retracted their outstretched hands in embarrassment. They were shocked when they heard what President Guo Lingyu said!
I'm going! What is the origin of a mainland boy who runs a small business in sunglasses? How could President Guo Lingyu say such enthusiastic and complimentary words? Is his father the richest man in mainland China? And "His father is Li Gang"?
Wah Lau Eh?! Siao ah! "The three people exclaimed softly in Fujian dialect. Dong Qiu, Dong Cai and Dong Xu looked at each other in confusion.
Wah Lau Eh is a Hokkien phrase that literally means "my daddy!". This is a word used very frequently by Singaporeans to describe feelings of surprise or disappointment.
Siao is also a Hokkien phrase that ranks among the ten most commonly used words by Singaporeans, meaning "go crazy".
If a Singaporean uses the words Wah Lau Eh and Siao at the same time, it indicates that his level of collapse is already very high!
At this time, the host of the afternoon event began to use the microphone to remind all members to take their seats as the formal seminar activities were about to begin.
What made Mr. Qiu, Mr. Cai and Mr. Xu even more upset was that after Chairman Guo Lingyu and his team exchanged a few words with Li Xiaofan, they actually accompanied Li Xiaofan to the first row of VIP seats under the podium.
The three looked at the backs of Chairman Guo Lingyu and Li Xiaofan, and their faces turned red and white with embarrassment.
As they walked, the three whispered:
"Wah Lau Eh, who is this mainland guy?"
"Needless to say, this person must be a big shot, as can be seen from the attitude of old man Tang Dehua towards him last year! It's just that old man Tang didn't tell me the truth!"
"But it's a bit strange that if their family is either rich or noble in the mainland, why did they let him come to Singapore to work as the most miserable low-level operator?"
Mr. Qiu, Mr. Cai and Mr. Xu discussed for a long time, but they couldn't figure out the situation.
Last year, when they met briefly at the Tanjong Golf Club on Sentosa Island, they only vaguely remembered Li Xiaofan's surname, Li, and they had long forgotten his full name.
After the seminar officially started, President Guo Lingyu came to the stage to give a speech.
What surprised the member entrepreneurs attending the meeting today was that President Guo Lingyu personally came to attend the afternoon industry seminar today, which made the standard much higher.
Because in the past, the seminars organized by the Chamber of Commerce Industry Committee usually only had a vice president come to the stage to give a speech. I didn’t expect that the head of the Chamber of Commerce would also come to attend in person today.
After President Guo Lingyu briefly introduced the recent economic situation in Singapore and some of the work of the Chamber of Commerce, he began to introduce the guests who were giving speeches on the stage today.
"The first person to come on stage today to share his successful investment experience with us is a young member who has just joined. His name has been frequently exposed in the media recently. You may often use the Yahoo Singapore site and Pacific Online Bookstore he founded."
"The Yahoo company he invested in was recently listed on the Nasdaq in the United States. In just one year, he invested more than 4 million US dollars in Yahoo in the United States. After Yahoo went public, his investment increased by more than 40 times. According to yesterday's closing price of US stocks, his net worth exceeded more than 200 million US dollars! This young member from mainland China is Mr. Li Xiaofan, the founder of Singapore Yifan Holdings Pte. Ltd. Now, let us welcome Director Li Xiaofan to the stage with warm applause to share his successful investment experience with us!"