Return to Singapore 1995

After the Asian financial crisis, Li Xiaofan felt that the world seemed to be full of sunshine in 1999, and the whole year of 1999 was a year of great harvest for him.

The projects invested and incubated in the previous few years began to gradually explode.

For example, NVIDIA, the company of Huang Shixun, released the NVIDIA Vanta display chip at the end of 1998 and successfully entered the commercial desktop computer market. After New Year's Day in 1999, NVIDIA successfully won all the spring orders of Intel Pentium Ⅲ from major computer OEM manufacturers in the world.

After the Spring Festival in 1999, NVIDIA won the Special Achievement Award of the Fifth Annual Gamer Award of Computer Gamers. Subsequently, the RIVA TNT2 chip with the industry's first 32-bit screen structure will be released soon...

Other projects such as OmniVision Technology, Maxtor, and Netcom are developing rapidly.

In early February 1999, Li Xiaofan brought his uncle, aunt, cousin Tang Qianqian and their family to Singapore, and also invited old classmates Wu Xiuli and Lin Zhiyong to join them. He invited everyone to his mansion in Singapore to celebrate the Spring Festival.

The uncle's family, Wu Xiuli, Lin Zhiyong and others left Changi International Airport and got on the special car arranged by Li Xiaofan. After getting off the car, everyone was stunned when they saw Li Xiaofan's mansion.

"Oh my god, Afan, good guy, are you the richest man in Singapore now?" Lin Zhiyong sighed.

Li Xiaofan laughed modestly: "Haha, I can only be considered a middle class in Nanyang..."

During the Chinese Spring Festival, the most lively place in Singapore is in the Marina Bay area.

Since 1987, Singapore has held the "Spring to the River" celebration every Spring Festival. This iconic event is held at the familiar Marina Bay floating stage at the National Service Square. This event has become an indispensable traditional festival for locals and foreign tourists to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

This lively festival is full of unique Chinese cultural atmosphere. From hanging big red lanterns to mouth-watering Chinese food, this special "Spring Comes to the River" event is a sensory feast for foreign mainland tourists like Li Xiaofan's uncle and his family, Wu Xiuli, Lin Zhiyong, etc.

The "Spring Comes to the River" event site displayed unique giant Chinese lanterns, outlining Chinese mythological characters, which were all made on-site by skilled craftsmen from the mainland. The exquisite craftsmanship amazed Chinese and foreign tourists who visited Wu Xiuli and others.

The most popular among them is of course the God of Wealth who brings wealth and blessings, and the 12 animals representing the 12 zodiac signs are naturally loved by everyone.

Throughout the Spring Festival, at Marina Bay, from entertainment activities to carnival games, there are also unique fireworks shows, various Chinese delicacies, and colorful activities that make Li Xiaofan's uncle and others feel at home, and have a feeling of celebrating the New Year in China.

In that era, during the Spring Festival, the most anticipated thing was of course the Spring Festival Gala on the New Year's Eve of February 15.

Everyone sat in the living room of Li Xiaofan's mansion, enjoying a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner while watching the 1999 Spring Festival Gala.

This year's Spring Festival Gala has a popular song, "Go Home Often".

This song was written in 1995 when Chehang's father passed away. Chehang sent his father away and remembered that he rarely went home to accompany his father after joining the work. Chehang's heart was full of regret and deep nostalgia for his father, so he wrote the song "Go Home Often".

Go home often, like the earnest advice of family members, simple and peaceful, sincere and heartfelt, containing the love and care for parents and children.

"Go Home Often" is not only the family's longing for overseas wanderers like Li Xiaofan, but also the children's longing for their families when they are busy outside. The song aroused the strong emotional resonance and true feelings of Li Xiaofan and his uncle's family, and seemed to sing to the depths of their hearts...

The song "Go Home Often" sung by Cai Guoqing and Chen Hong made the eyes of his aunt and Li Xiaofan in front of the TV moist.

At the time of family reunion on New Year's Eve, this song resonates with thousands of families who are reuniting or waiting for reunion during the Spring Festival.

It makes Li Xiaofan feel how wonderful it is for a family and friends to sit down and have a good meal happily!

Some wonderful Spring Festival Gala programs are still classics when watched again today.

For example, the sketch "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" created based on the currently popular CCTV interview program "Tell the Truth" has also become one of the best Spring Festival Gala sketches this year. Cui Yongyuan, Zhao Benshan, and Song Dandan joined forces, and the "laughing effect" was amazing.

This year's Spring Festival, the movie "Titanic" was super popular. In the sketch "The Veteran Comes Out", there is a super large background: Gong Hanlin and Jin Zhu are in the classic posture of the male and female protagonists on the ship, but they are standing on a tractor! It is simply the originator of the spoof pictures...

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After the Spring Festival, the eight-inch wafer factory project in Hong Kong Island is about to be completed and enters the equipment installation stage. Li Xiaofan handed over the "Silicon Port" project to a strong team led by Dr. Zhang and Lin Muchu. They recruited a group of high-end talents in planning, construction, management and scientific research from all over the world to speed up the construction of this large project.

Li Xiaofan's main focus is on the capital market, of course, the top priority is the US capital market, he wants to welcome this last bull market in the 20th century.

After completing the basic layout of the US capital market, Li Xiaofan took a break from his busy schedule and participated in the Atlas Mountains outdoor hiking trip organized by Dai Junling and Huang Yishi in early March.

The Atlas Mountains are located in northwest Africa, spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. They are part of the Alps and are the largest folded and faulted mountain area in Africa, spanning the entire Morocco from north to south.

When Li Xiaofan and his team flew over this area, looking down from the air, it was like a natural barrier, separating the vast Sahara Desert from the ocean.

The dreamy, gleaming pink granite peaks of the Atlas Mountains outline winding canyons and steep cliffs, like a magnificent landscape painting, which is very attractive.

Dai Junling and Huang Yishi told Li Xiaofan that Morocco has completely different climates and vegetation on both sides of the Atlas Mountains, with an oasis on the west and a desert on the east.

After everyone arrived at their destination, a group of people drove from Essaouira and arrived at the Great Atlas Mountains about four hours later.

The Tobkal Mountain in the distance is more than 4,000 meters high. It is so majestic and even scary from a distance. The violent crustal movement has built a daunting stone fortress. According to the local tour guide, since Morocco gained independence from French colonial rule in the 1950s, a local family called Glaoui has built a stronghold on the foothills and ruled the Great Atlas Mountains.

When Li Xiaofan and his team, accompanied by a local tour guide, walked to the village of Imlil at the top of the Great Atlas Mountains, the scene in front of them was quite different: the terraces were embedded like gems at the foot of Mount Tobkal, the vegetables in the vegetable garden had just sprouted, and the cherry and apple orchards were leaning against the gurgling streams in the mountains, and the streams flowed through the smooth protruding rocks, splashing water.

It was like a paradise outside the Great Wall!