Hong Kong athletes have achieved good results in the Tokyo Olympics. By the evening of Thursday (5th), they have achieved historical results of one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes. It is not only inspiring, but also igniting everyone's attention to the development of sports in Hong Kong.
Speaking of supporting athletes, Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee President Huo Zhenting and his son Huo Qigang deserve it.
In the business world, there are also many athletes who support sports. For example, Hu Wenxin, the son of Hu Yingxiang, founder of Hopewell Industries, has spared no effort to promote the development of ice hockey in Hong Kong over the years.
He was privatized in 2019. After he changed from the vice chairman of the company to a consultant, he rarely appeared in the media.
To undertake this "Olympic craze," the reporter asked Hu Wenxin to speak very rarely, not talking about "official business," but only about sports.
After the successful privatization of Hopewell, Hu Wenxin, who has worked hard for the company for 20 years, has turned from the company's number two to a named consultant.
With no officials and a light body, Hu Wenxin said that he has less pressure and is now fully engaged in promoting the development of ice hockey in Hong Kong.
Retreat from Hopewell to force the development of ice hockey in Tani Hong Kong
Hu Wenxin's hockey craze is definitely not a "three-minute craze."
As the chairman of the Hong Kong Amateur Ice Hockey Club, he came into contact with ice hockey under the introduction of a friend. He is good at playing defenders. He founded the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Training School as early as 2007 and has served as the president or chairman of many international ice hockey federations for many years.
Hu Wenxin was excited when talking about ice hockey to reporters. He revealed that after he "retired" from Hehe, he almost devoted himself to ice hockey work. "There are so many people in the Ice Hockey Association. If it is not due to the epidemic, it should have been "flying" a lot. It should have been two days. It should all be in Spain. Last year until now, there have been 45 meetings, and meetings will be held every other week!” Under the epidemic, many meetings have switched to ZOOM, so they can meet remotely, and the "trips" are more dense. He joked: " There are three waiting for me in the formation."
The Hong Kong Olympic team performed well at the Tokyo Olympics this time. Every athlete went all out, but was always "round and round." Hu Wenxin believes that everyone should not only focus on the athletes who won the prize. "I have a business background and also I am a member of the sports industry, knowing that full-time athletes do face many difficulties, regardless of whether they have prizes or not, their hard work and spirit of struggle have touched all Hong Kong citizens!"
In recent years, ice hockey has made good progress in Hong Kong.
The picture shows the All-Russian Night Hockey League Competition.
(Associated Press)
Back to the company after the financial turmoil from a prestigious university
Although he has loved ice hockey many years ago, Hu Wenxin is most familiar with it. It is inevitable that he has been in Hehe for 20 years.
Looking up the information, he completed his MBA at Stanford University in the United States in 1999, and then returned to Hong Kong to take care of the family business. Back then, the internet stocks were very hot. A friend asked him: "You are so hot in Silicon Valley (Hot), please understand. Returning to Hong Kong?" Hu Wenxin still remembered, at the time he just smiled and said, "The old bean stalls are all very hard. Indonesia and Thailand don't count the money, and they don't pay for the roads, and there is no return. The money is tied to it. It's a relatively bad time, and the situation in Hong Kong is not so good!"
In 1997, when the Asian financial turmoil broke out, almost all enterprises in the region had to "suffer", and many of them had already fallen out.
Hehe, which has a solid foundation, had to write off tens of billions of yuan in its investment in Thailand at that time, "Total loss," and infrastructure companies as far away as Hungary had to "cut the cable."
After that, I saw a series of capital operations by this old Chinese-owned company. For example, in 2003, it split off the highway business and raised about 3 billion yuan. Afterwards, the company "handed the knife and fell" in the queen when the finances were loose. "Sweeping shops" on the east side of the main road, unifying the ownership and expanding the territory of Wan Chai. Later, the government also gave the "green light" to rebuild. The rules will start from our place, and the "investment" profit will be recorded in the account for several years in a row."
Hu Wenxin loves ice hockey, and he is second among the Hong Kong business community, and no one recognizes the first.
(Photo by Liang Pengwei)
Call for support for the Winter Olympics
When asked about the 20 years of Hehe's work, Hu Wenxin didn't want to say more. He just said: "It's hard work, but we have to work hard to do it." Putting his eyes back on the Hong Kong ice hockey team, he has a lot to do.
It was mentioned earlier that the Hong Kong ice hockey team is subject to training grounds. With the opening of the Discovery Bay and Cannes skating rinks, you can breathe a sigh of relief now.
"We have the opportunity to promote ice hockey. In the past decade or so, we have achieved good results. Many people know it. We play league games. We don't stop players. We need good courts and referees."
The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing next year. Ice hockey will naturally be one of the events of the competition. Hu Wenxin also took the opportunity to "purge" the Winter Olympics. He pointed out that although the public's investment in the Winter Olympics may not be as high as the Olympics, I believe that any athlete participating in the competition will do the same. Work hard for your dreams and try your best to win glory for Hong Kong.
Hu Wenxin, who has offloaded the burden of family business, currently has many public positions, such as a director of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, a member of the Chief Executive Election Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (hotel sector), etc., and also serves as a non-executive director of Huiquan International, which has just applied for listing at the end of June. .
Now I hope that the ice hockey work will be "fixed and falling first", and the focus will be on promoting the public to participate in ice hockey. He said with a smile, "I'm lucky again, don't worry about it!"
At the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, the Mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining, took over the Olympic flag from Thomas Bach, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee, symbolizing that Beijing officially took over to host the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
(Reuters)