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At the commencement ceremony of
Shantou University
in
China's Guangdong Province,
Hong Kong billionaire
Li Ka-shing said there are three things that have bothered him
to the extent that he cannot sleep well at night.
What are the three things that made this 85-year-old magnate
so worried and sleepless at night?
Is it related to his recent property sell-off in mainland
China
and Hong Kong?
Let's see the following reports.
On the morning of June 27, Chairman of Hong Kong's
Cheung Kong Holdings (
CKH) Li Ka-shing, attended
the commencement ceremony of Shantou University,
which he founded.
As honorary chairman of the university council,
Li Ka-shing gave a speech entitled, "
Sleepless Night."
In his speech, he said that at 85-years-old, he has long taken
various personal losses and gains lightly.
What else is there for him to be concerned about?
Li Ka-shing, "What I'm worried about is that in the era
of the globalization and knowledge economy, differing
intelligence, capability and effort have turned the imbalance
of opportunities into a new norm.
I'm worried that limitations of national resources
may become a problem for future development."
Li Ka-shing worries that the high social welfare burden
as well as anger and unrest due to disparity may prolong
social stagnation.
Since June 23, Li Ka-shing's venture capital firm,
Horizons
Ventures, has been on a promotional tour in China's six cities.
In her remarks at a promotional seminar,
Solina Chau,
head of the promotion campaign, also mentioned that
Li Ka-shing is worried about the continued disparity
of global wealth, especially in China.
He is worried about China's lack of arable land
and safe drinking water.
In addition, he is also worried about the lack of mutual trust
among people, that is people do not tell the truth to each other.
These are the three things that have made it difficult
for him to fall asleep.
Former
Associate Professor of
Beijing Capital Normal
University Li
Yuanhua: "He can't sleep because he noticed
the many impoverished people in
Chinese society,
and he sees them in a lot of pain.
Education has became an industry, a tool for making money.
He sees the essence of the problem from another aspect,
and that is under the
Chinese Communist Party's rule over
the past decades, the
Chinese traditional morality has been
damaged and there is no basic trust among people."
Li Yuanhua expressed that as a Chinese, Li Ka-shing
hopes he can improve
Chinese people's living,
and that education will really cultivate some talents
who will enhance the well-being of society.
In fact, he is disappointed by the realities,
but he cannot express it outright.
Li Yuanhua: "Because he has dealt with
Chinese government
officials at various levels in Chinese society, he knows that
Chinese society is currently very corrupt.
He has also noticed that
China's economy is on the brink
of collapse.
In particular, he has foreseen the risks in real estate
and other various businesses he invested in."
As the richest Chinese business tycoon for 16 consecutive
years, Li Ka-shing has sold his shopping plaza
in the
Guangzhou Metropolitan Plaza, the
Credit Agricole
in
Shanghai and the
International Financial Center in
Nanjing.
They were priced 35 percent lower than
last August's market price.
His son
Richard Li also sold his
Beijing shopping mall,
Pacific Century.
It seems that the Li family has no longer owns
large-scale real estate projects in China.
According to
United Nations Development Program statistics,
currently China's poorest people account for 20 percent
of its population, but their income and consumption
only account for 4.7 percent of the national data.
But the richest 20 percent of the population dominate
as much as 50 percent of the income or consumption in China.
These figures show that China is now the country
with the largest income disparity in the world.
Gong Shengli, chief researcher at Beijing's Internal
Reference
Magazine: "According to the UN's standard of $1 per person
per day, there are over
300 million poor people in China.
If more stringent data is used for the real poverty line,
China will have close to 400 million people in poverty.
Gong Shengli feels that
CCP's monopoly of industries,
finance, and even society, had created the wealth disparity.
Gong Shengli: "Neither the government nor its financial
currency has credit.
As a result the government-owned enterprises
do not fulfill their contracts.
China's overall credibility, morality, culture, and society
have suffered a huge retrogression.
The result of the retrogression is that people
have lost credibility."
Li Yuanhua indicates that Li Ka-shing's concerns
and divestment are in fact a distrust or worry
about the entire Chinese Communist Party's rule.
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- published: 02 Jul 2014
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