We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

As August arrived, the number of typhoons forming in the Western Pacific seemed to gradually increase.

The Hong Kong area experienced relatively limited impact, mainly from a few breezes on the periphery of the typhoons and several consecutive days of heavy rain.

However, the coastal areas to the north suffered significant damage from the typhoons.

News of the destructive typhoons quickly spread throughout Hong Kong, and major media outlets reported on the situation.

Among them, some news media with a strong sense of justice actively called on all sectors of society to extend a helping hand to the disaster areas and jointly help the people in the affected areas overcome their difficulties.

As the largest foreign-invested enterprise in Guangdong Province, Su City received requests for assistance from the north at the first moment of the disaster.

In response, Su City gave an affirmative reply without hesitation, expressing its willingness to provide the necessary assistance.

On August 17th, Su Cheng led more than a thousand members of the Tianhe Bodyguard Company, driving over 20 buses and dozens of trucks loaded with relief supplies, wearing disaster relief clothing, left Hong Kong and headed to eastern Guangdong and western Fujian to carry out disaster relief activities.

The roof tiles were overturned, exposing the mottled internal structure, and rainwater poured in mercilessly, the sound of dripping water intertwined with the sound of the wind outside, creating a desolate melody.

Vehicles were blown over by the wind, some even crushed by trees, their bodies deformed and glass shattered, a shocking scene.

On the beach, the traces left by the waves were clearly visible, the waves had washed a large amount of sea sand ashore, piling it up into small hills, some fishing boat cables were broken, drifting in the wind, and some were even swept away by the huge waves, their whereabouts unknown.

The entire area was filled with an atmosphere of desolation and ruin, as if a bout of nature's anger had reshuffled everything here, leaving people with endless sorrow and contemplation.

Su Cheng inspected many places, and these places brought him great feelings.

In the face of nature, human beings are indeed very small.

After more than ten days of intense disaster relief work, everything finally came to an end.

The members of the Tianhe Bodyguard Company returned to Hong Kong one after another, but Su Cheng did not leave with them.

In these ten days, for the sake of disaster relief operations and material procurement, he generously donated more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars.

Although this money is an astronomical figure for ordinary people, for Su Cheng, it is only a part of his concern for society and his willingness to contribute.

He donated without regret. As the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility.

Now that his ability is considered great, helping these people is just a simple matter.

Now, with the increase of wealth, money in his eyes is just a string of almost impossible to count numbers, because his wealth is increasing every day.

In addition to the Su's Group, Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Hongkong Land Group in Hong Kong, his overseas assets are also terrifyingly large.

East Ying, the Beautiful Country, Europe, Nanyang and other places all have a large number of branches, creating wealth for him every day.

Money, for him, is just a number.

Through inspecting the disaster area, he found that in addition to many houses being destroyed, many schools were also destroyed.

The result of the school being destroyed is naturally that the children have no place to go to school.

On this day, Su Cheng was in a common jeep, inspecting a village in the suburbs of a town.

"Mr. Su, affected by the typhoon, the roof was directly blown off, and some of the walls have collapsed, and now it has become a dangerous building." The staff member assigned to him by the government pointed to a dangerous building and said with a wry smile.

Su Cheng nodded, got out of the car, and walked in to take a look.

In the dilapidated building, Su Cheng also saw a blackboard that had been broken into several pieces.

Those tables and wooden benches had long been smashed.

At some point, two ten-year-old boys came near him, looking at the dilapidated buildings in front of them, silently.

"Little friends, are you students here?" Su Cheng asked curiously.

"Yes, we will be in the third grade after the summer vacation, but now like this, uncle, do you think we have no place to study?" A slightly taller boy looked up and asked the stranger next to him.

"No, you will definitely have a place to study. Maybe your new classroom will be brighter and safer, and it won't be blown down because of the typhoon." Su Cheng looked at the dilapidated classroom in front of him, then looked at the two elementary school students, and said with a smile.

Previously, he was willing to donate 500 million Hong Kong dollars in materials.

Since this is the case, why not rebuild their schools.

Donating these schools does not cost him much money.

For this reason, Su Cheng decided to build new schools for them in various disaster areas.

He told his idea to the local government.

After all, this kind of thing requires local cooperation.

Otherwise, even if he has this idea, he will not be able to realize it!

Only with the cooperation of the local government can he smoothly implement his decision.

"Mr. Su, I express my deepest gratitude to you on behalf of everyone for your noble character. At the same time, we have a proposal. We hope that the school can be named after you, such as Su Cheng Primary School and Su Cheng Middle School. We think this is very appropriate!"

After learning about this great deed, the local government expressed its sincere gratitude to Su Cheng and explained their ideas.

At first, Su Cheng did not have such a plan. He did not particularly care about the naming of the school. Anyway, after the donation, there would be fame, so there was no need to care about the name.

But after much deliberation, he realized that since he had decided to donate, naming the school with his name was actually a commitment to the quality of the school's construction.

He thought that if there were quality problems with the project, wouldn't it be disappointing the expectations of students and parents, and possibly even causing harm to the students?

Therefore, he finally gladly accepted this proposal.

According to statistics, there are as many as 128 primary schools damaged in this disaster area, and there are also 26 middle schools.

Building these schools in this era didn't actually cost that much in terms of construction materials; the majority of the expense was labor costs.

After receiving the compiled data, Su Cheng didn't hesitate to decide that he would personally cover all the reconstruction funds for these schools.

He wasn't short of money now.

As a Chinese person, helping his own people was something he should do.

Why do rich people do charity? Isn't it for a good reputation?

Su Cheng didn't deny this.

It was like the Shaw Yat-fu schools, Tin Ka Ping schools, and so on that he knew about in his previous life.

In the end, Su Cheng decided to transfer construction teams from Ho Kee Real Estate Company and Su's Real Estate Company.

During these two years of the real estate recession, many real estate companies suffered severe losses, so real estate development in Hong Kong had declined significantly over the past two years.

Many of the professional construction workers had lost their jobs as a result.

However, Su Cheng's real estate businesses were not affected by the real estate bubble and continued to develop according to the established plans.

At the same time, Su Cheng's real estate companies in various locations also hired more professional construction workers in the market.

Therefore, even Su Cheng's real estate companies were not lacking in personnel.

In the 1980s, the construction cost of over 150 schools was much lower than in later generations.

Even so, he generously allocated a budget of over 300 million Hong Kong dollars, aiming to ensure the high construction quality of these schools.

In an instant, the construction of more than a hundred Su Cheng Elementary Schools and Su Cheng Middle Schools in Guangdong and Fujian provinces started almost simultaneously.

However, the construction of new teaching buildings was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Even for rural elementary schools, although the structure was simple, and a large number of workers were invested to speed up the project, it would still take at least half a year.

Therefore, how to solve the children's learning problem for the next semester became an urgent problem to be solved.

This problem was not difficult to solve. In the end, after in-depth discussions with the local government, Su Cheng decided to equip each school with prefabricated modular houses as temporary teaching venues.

This way, the children would have a place to study when they started school in September.

Although the modular houses might be relatively hot in the summer, these children were from rural areas and had experienced more difficult environments, so this difficulty was nothing to them.

Moreover, the weather would gradually turn cooler after October.

Choosing modular houses was also out of helplessness. After all, even a powerful company like Su Cheng couldn't build more than a hundred schools in just half a month.

That was not a realistic and feasible plan, but an unattainable myth.

Su Cheng's decision quickly spread to various provinces and cities through mainland media, attracting widespread attention.

Originally, although Su Cheng enjoyed a great reputation globally, his popularity in the mainland was relatively limited.

However, after this incident, Su Cheng's popularity in the mainland was significantly improved, and his reputation became increasingly loud.

For this reason, CCIV television news specifically reported on Su Cheng's glorious deeds, giving the people of the whole country a deeper impression of Su Cheng.

Engaging in such a large-scale charity will inevitably reap corresponding rewards.

And a good reputation is undoubtedly one of the most valuable rewards that charity can bring.

Donating more than a hundred schools at one time, donating a large amount of materials in the typhoon disaster, and personally leading more than a thousand people to participate in disaster relief, such a feat can only be done by Su Cheng.

In contrast, most other Hong Kong businessmen only donated a few million Hong Kong dollars, neither going to the disaster area in person nor investing such a huge amount of money.

The reason why Su Cheng was so generous was not only to pursue a good reputation, but more importantly, he was a mainland person in his previous life and had a deep affection for this land.

Although he has become a Hong Konger in this life, he always remembers that he is a Chinese son and daughter.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, so he always spares no effort to give back to society and contribute a little of his own strength.

This is not something great. To him, it's just a small matter. Since he can help, why not help?

Su Cheng stayed in the mainland for a full month.

It wasn't until mid-September that Su Cheng returned to Hong Kong.

Although Su Cheng was no longer in the mainland after returning to Hong Kong, he still often paid attention to the information there. The person in charge of the school reconstruction project had to report the progress to him every period of time.

This matter was also heavily reported in the Hong Kong media.

It is worth mentioning that the media that reported heavily this time were not the media under Su Cheng's banner, but media such as "Ta Kung Pao", "Sin Chew Daily", and TVB, which continuously reported on Su Cheng's charitable actions.

Through this move, Su Cheng ruthlessly harvested a wave of reputation.

These reputations are not so easy to accumulate under normal circumstances.

In October, Su Cheng was once again invited to the University of Hong Kong to give a speech.

Su Cheng once donated 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the University of Hong Kong to support the development of some science and technology majors. It can be said that he is now the largest financier of the University of Hong Kong.

For this reason, Su Cheng also has the honorary title of school director at the University of Hong Kong.

Facing thousands of students from the University of Hong Kong, Su Cheng behaved very calmly.

The University of Hong Kong is not yet a world-class university, and can only be regarded as a regional first-class university.

Many majors still perform very ordinarily.

But Su Cheng knew that the future Hong Kong had already been qualified to be among the world's top universities.

In recent years, the University of Hong Kong has actually provided him with a lot of help. This help refers to providing him with many talents from all walks of life.

Therefore, Su Cheng is not opposed to supporting the academic development of the University of Hong Kong.

After the speech, Su Cheng made another decision and donated another 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the University of Hong Kong.

Compared to when he donated to the University of Hong Kong a few years ago in order to develop the technology industry in Hong Kong, Su Cheng's assets are now many times higher than they were then.

At that time, he was willing to give 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the University of Hong Kong, let alone now.

Now, his net worth is at least hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

If you have thousands of dollars, would you care about one dollar?

It's basically impossible to care too much.

Su Cheng is like that.

He now has hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in assets, although only a part of it is cash, but only 100 million Hong Kong dollars, he really doesn't care much.

Just like donating to disaster areas and schools in the mainland, the funds he has spent before and after have exceeded 800 million Hong Kong dollars.

But 800 million Hong Kong dollars is just a very small amount of money to him.