Chapter 375: Nineteen Ninety-Five

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Fan Wuxian didn't pay much attention to the auction in Hong Kong, because he was in charge of the affairs here.

Besides, now his identity is completely different, and his popularity is too high, so that after he arrived in Hong Kong, celebrities from all walks of life in Hong Kong have invited him, and even the current Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, has sent an envoy to greet Fan Wuxi.

Fan Wuxian attended the banquet of several important people and casually entertained, but he was a little hesitant in the face of the invitation of Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten.

Crest Patten is a veteran politician of the British Conservative Party, a former Minister of the Environment, Chairman of the Conservative Party, and the current Governor of Hong Kong.

Unlike previous Governors, Chris Patten is the only Catholic Governor of Hong Kong, and one of the few Governors of Hong Kong who does not come from the Foreign Office, but from the Parliament. Patten did not accept any honors before taking office, and he did not wear the traditional colonial uniform when he took office. Because his body is slightly fatter and his Chinese translation is very Chinese, he was nicknamed Fat Peng by the market and even the media after taking office.

Soon after taking office, Patten became stumped with high-level officials in the mainland, saying he was about to reform the electoral system of the Legislative Council to speed up the pace of democracy in Hong Kong. However, the mainland government immediately expressed its dissatisfaction, pointing out that the central government had not been consulted on the reforms, and vowed that the reforms would be cancelled after the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty. At that time, many officials in Beijing denounced him as a poisonous snake and a thief, and the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office at that time even rebuked Patten as a sinner for the ages.

Since announcing the constitutional reform plan, he has not been invited to meet with mainland leaders during his tenure.

In this context, there has been a wave of immigration and signs of the withdrawal of traditional British companies, but Hong Kong's economy is still thriving, most notably in the property market and stock market. At the end of 1993, the Hang Seng Index crossed 10,000 points for the first time. Hong Kong became the world's eighth-largest trading region during Patten's tenure.

However, Fan remembers very well that after Patten stepped down, Hong Kong was plunged into the Asian financial turmoil and the stock market was facing a collapse.

For such a last Hong Kong governor who was deeply hated by the mainland's high-level officials, Fan Wuxian was also a little undecided, should he accept his invitation?

But overall. This man is not a bad person. It's just that they have different political views and stick to their own positions. At that time, the central government was worried that the Hong Kong government would run out of money or run out of debts before the handover. It was agreed with the Hong Kong government. Hong Kong should leave behind a local fiscal reserve of not less than HK$25 billion at the time of its return to the motherland. But when he left the place. Hong Kong's local reserves exceed HK$300 billion.

Such. Later, after Patten stepped down as Governor of Hong Kong. I have visited Beijing before. I was warmly received. It can be regarded as a partial recognition of its place of work.

After thinking about it for a while. Fan Wuxi felt that it was better not to provoke the sensitive nerves of the high-level. After all, my identity is different now. Any move is easy to be caught, and the handle is endless. It is also easy to bring a lot of trouble to his father Fan Heng. So Fan Wuxian politely declined Patten's invitation. However, it made people pick a more valuable Chinese antique. Sent over. It's a gesture of friendship.

Stayed in Hong Kong for a few days, though. I found out that this year has been really eventful. Teresa Teng fell ill and died. Zhang Ailing also fell ill and died. Princess Diana of England though not sick. But died in a car accident. Also in this year. Faye Wong's name finally changed back from Wang Jingwen. And Leslie Cheung admits that he is GAY.

Of course. It's not all bad, either. At least Jordan is back on the charts this year.

Jordan can jump to the free-throw line for a dunk. It's a maneuver that few people can do. He was known as a trapeze artist for this reason. Since 1991. He leads the Chicago Bulls. Won three consecutive NBA league championships. Two years ago. The father was suddenly killed. At the age of 30, Jordan announced his retirement from basketball. He said. I don't need to prove anything in basketball anymore.

Jordan's retirement sent Nike's stock down three-quarters.

Jordan's basketball career took a two-year hiatus, and in March of this year, Jordan returned to the Bulls. His return has brought many fans back to the basketball court and the television.

It was also from this year that Jordan led the team to continue to stage the NBA myth, complete the second triple championship, and establish the Bulls dynasty.

Another important measure this year is that the foreign exchange bills that have been in circulation for 15 years have finally been abolished.

In the early days of reform and opening up, when the supply of local commodities in China was still in short supply, the State Council authorized the Bank of China to issue renminbi foreign exchange bills from April 1980 in order to take care of foreign friends. It was not until the beginning of the year that it was announced that the circulation of foreign exchange bills would be suspended.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, out of the needs of national security, the government formulated corresponding regulations on the activities of foreigners in China. Foreigners must be accompanied by Chinese everywhere they go, and they must go to designated places. U.S. dollars cannot be exchanged for renminbi, and can only be used in foreign-related stores such as the Friendship Store with foreign exchange coupons.

Until the eighties, foreigners were very restricted in China. For example, if you go to the suburbs or the countryside, you have to go back to the city at night.

This kind of restriction was not felt until the nineties.

Around the Spring Festival, the Hong Kong film "Red Fan District" was introduced to the mainland in the name of Chinese New Year films. "Red Fan Zone" starring Hong Kong actors Jackie Chan and Anita Mui, tells the story of Hong Kong policeman Ma Hanqiang's brave fight against gangsters in New York, USA. "Red Fan Zone" ranked second only to the Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies" in national box office revenue that year.

After "Red Fan District" entered the mainland, the mainland Chinese New Year films "Party A and Party B", "See You or Disperse", "Endless", "Mobile Phone" and so on were released one after another, becoming another choice for ordinary people in the Spring Festival.

This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of world cinema. Ten American Hollywood blockbusters such as "True Lies" and "The Lion King" have entered China, which really makes Chinese feel the high-quality audio-visual enjoyment of American blockbusters.

In the United States, cultural products, mainly films, have become an important export content after the aviation industry and the food industry. It also provides more than 17 million jobs in the United States. Cultural and entertainment exports are rapidly becoming the new drivers of global economic growth, replacing the more realistic-looking automobile, steel and financial services industries. ”

It was also in this year that computer manufacturers sold one million computers in China, and more than three million computers entered homes.

Computers also changed the fate of a female college student.

In May this year, a female college student named Zhu Ling at Tsinghua University suddenly lost her hair and had spasms all over her body, and she fell into a coma after being sent to the hospital. The hospital repeatedly examined, but did not find the cause of the disease, and there was no way to prescribe medicine.

One of Zhu Ling's high school classmates, who was studying at Peking University, sent Zhu Ling's symptoms to the Internet at Peking University and turned to netizens around the world for help. A few hours later, hundreds of diagnostic messages were transmitted to computer screens from all over the world, and many of them believed that Zhu Ling might be ~ poisoned.

According to the information obtained on the Internet, the hospital subsequently confirmed that Zhu Ling was indeed ~ poisoned, and began to prescribe the right medicine. In January of the following year, Zhu Ling was discharged from the hospital. For the first time, Chinese people feel that there is great power in numbers, and this famous saying has been confirmed on the Internet.

However, during the few days in Hong Kong, there were also things that upset Fan Wuxi.

On the first day, he attended the reception dinner of the head of the Hong Kong branch of Fan's Investment Group, and the person in charge here specially invited many business celebrities or actresses in the entertainment industry to participate in order to please Fan Wuxi, which made the dinner very lively.

Many of these beautiful actresses can't care about their Chinese non-standard, and come to Fan Wuxi's side to set almost, in addition to hoping that Fan Wuxian can arouse some interest in themselves, they just want to take a photo with him or something, you must know that the current Fan Wuxi's value on the face is already quite amazing, and if you can have the opportunity to contact him, you naturally have to try your best to fight for it.

As a result, the next day, Fan Wuxian found that there were many tabloids on the street, which were full of scandals about himself and actresses.

"The media in Hong Kong is really gossipy—" Fan Wuxian turned a few pages, his face turned green.

If you follow their way of writing, where is he a young and promising business tycoon, he is purely a merciful Ximenqing, and it seems that beautiful actresses from fourteen to forty years old have secrets that cannot be said to themselves.

The most disgusting thing is not this, but some of the revelations are purely described as the actress concerned, looking at the buses who are scratching their heads and don't know how many hands they have changed hands are talking about their intimate relationship with themselves, Fan Wuxian feels like vomiting.

The person in charge of Fan's Investment Group in Hong Kong saw Fan Wuxi looking through those gossip weeklies with a black face in the hotel, and immediately said with some apprehension, "Hong Kong is open to speech, and the media is even more unscrupulous, especially after the appearance of "Apple" magazine, which specializes in provoking people and creating gimmicks, and the content written is also some gossip that catches the wind and shadows, and even many of them are malicious and slanderous out of nothing. However, Hong Kong people like to watch this kind of thing, and the person concerned does not seem to be resentful, but thinks that this can increase their popularity, and under this cycle, the media in Hong Kong is uncontrollable. ”

"I'd better go back early, stay here and create a topic for them in vain, and pay me a penny for advertising." Fan Wuxian is also a little helpless about this.

Therefore, Fan Wuxian returned to China in a low-key manner, but he looked a little weak-hearted, and for this reason, the large and small media in Hong Kong set off a new round of topic hype, and the main argument was all kinds of conjectures caused by Fan Wuxian's silence and intimate relationship with the actresses.

It wasn't until Fan Wuxian returned to Beijing and routinely checked the old chief's body that he asked for the first time, "Is the thing you and that person real or fake?" ”

“?” Fan Wuxian was stunned.

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