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Written by: District Licheng
2021-03-08 16:00
Last update date: 2021-03-08 16:03
UA’s announcement today announced the closure of the entire line of business. It mentioned the late founder Ira Dan Kaye, a Jewish businessman who grew up in New York, the United States, who had a relationship with the daughter of the founder of Partridge when he came to Hong Kong. The business partners have formed a couple and have dominated the local business community for many years, including the creation of the UA cinema and the online booking system Cityline. In the 1980s, they went to Guangzhou to set up a milk brand. They even invited the Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister of the country to inspect the scene. Personal reputation Throughout China and Hong Kong, Ji stayed in the Hong Kong half-life after his death and was buried in Happy Valley for future generations to commemorate.
Born in 1917, Ji Aihua, a Jew who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, described his personal history according to Facebook’s historical website "Mall’s Miscellaneous". Ji served in Europe during World War II. After the war, he started his business by operating a trade business. He became a youth of the world in 1950. The president of the Chamber of Commerce traveled all over the world. He thought that he could do a good job in Hong Kong. He moved to Hong Kong to do business. In 1963, he established Liji Foreign Company to engage in the import and export of ready-made garments.
Ji's rise in the business world is not unrelated to his Chinese wife. While doing business in Hong Kong, Ji fell in love with business partner Zhang Zishan. Zhang's father was the founder of the pediatric sacred medicine "Partridge" and the personal health doctor Zhang Siyun and the founding father of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. The female was a long-sleeved dancer in the local business community. She had lost her husband at the time. Ji also had a wife. The two became husband and wife. They began to turn Liji from a garment business into a diversified group business, including the acquisition of Lantau Cross Milk and the operation of Hong Kong. Many restaurants, such as Loulou, opened UA theaters in 1985, and are involved in the film industry.
In the 1980s, Ji invested more than US$15.6 million with his wife Zhang Zishan to establish Guangmei Xiangmanlou Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. in cooperation with Guangzhou Agriculture and Industry Corporation to produce fresh milk and yogurt. He was awarded the then Vice President Wang Zhen and Deputy Prime Minister Tian Jiyun. , Vice Premier Zou Jiahua personally visited the site and has become one of the large dairy companies in the Mainland that integrates pasture, processing and sales.
In his later years, Ji still had business acumen. In 1997, taking advantage of the rise of the Internet, he founded Cityline, an online ticketing system, with an estimated net worth of more than one billion yuan in the 1990s.
Ji did not forget to contribute to society when he was doing great business in the business world. He used to be a Rotary community director, pretending to be Santa Claus and sending gifts to children’s homes every year. Since 1986, the American Chamber of Commerce has also set up a social service bonus named after him to commend him. For those who have contributed to public welfare undertakings, the winners will donate the relevant funds to the designated charity organization.
After he passed away in 1999, he chose to stay in Hong Kong, where he worked hard for the rest of his life. The body was buried in the Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery. The monument also followed the Jewish tradition and placed small stones as a memorial. Whenever a guided tour of the cemetery passes by The tombstone of the Jewish Cemetery in Happy Valley has become one of the attractions.
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