Entering August, the number of typhoons generated in the Western Pacific seems to be gradually increasing.
The impact on the Xiangjiang area was relatively limited, mainly due to a few breezes on the edge of the typhoon and several consecutive days of heavy rain.
In the northern coastal areas, the damage caused by typhoons is not small.
News about the devastation caused by the typhoon quickly spread throughout Hong Kong, and major media outlets reported on it.
Among them, some news media that uphold justice have actively called on all sectors of society to lend a helping hand to the disaster areas and jointly help the people in the disaster areas tide over the difficulties.
As the largest foreign-invested enterprise in Guangdong Province, Sioux City received a request for help from the north as soon as the disaster occurred.
In response, Sioux City responded affirmatively without hesitation and expressed its willingness to provide necessary assistance.
On August 17, Sioux City led more than a thousand members of the Tianhe Bodyguard Company to drive more than 20 buses and dozens of trucks, carrying full of disaster relief supplies and wearing disaster relief clothes. clothes, left Xiangjiang and went to eastern Guangdong and western Fujian to carry out disaster relief activities.
These days, most of the members of the bodyguard company have served in the military and have great endurance.
The arrival of Su Cheng was welcomed by the relevant leaders, but the most important thing at the moment was to enter the disaster area for disaster relief. It was better to leave things like greetings with the leaders behind.
Therefore, under the guidance of local staff, members of the Tianhe Bodyguard Company in Suzhou quickly joined the disaster relief effort.
Of course Su Cheng does not need to personally participate. He is more interested in inspecting the disaster situation in various places and then dispatching the lack of supplies from Xiangjiang.
After the typhoon, the once lush trees were uprooted or broken, and their branches and leaves were scattered all over the ground, like debris on a battlefield.
On both sides of the street, billboards were crumbling, some were broken, hanging in the air and swaying in the wind, making a harsh metal friction sound.
The road was filled with turbid rainwater, mixed with broken branches, fallen leaves and various types of garbage. The water flow was fast, as if a river was overflowing.
Some of the building's windows were broken by the wind, and glass shards were scattered everywhere, flashing dangerous lights.
The tiles on the roof were overturned, revealing the mottled internal structure. The rain poured in mercilessly, and the ticking sound intertwined with the sound of the wind outside to form a desolate movement.
The vehicles were blown around by the wind, and some were even crushed by trees. The car body was deformed and the glass was broken. The scene was shocking.
On the beach, the traces left by the waves are clearly visible. The waves washed a large amount of sea sand ashore and piled it up into hills. The cables of some fishing boats were broken and drifted in the wind. Some were even swept away by the huge waves. Missing.
The whole area is filled with an atmosphere of desolation and dilapidation, as if nature's anger has reshuffled everything here, leaving people with endless sadness and thinking.
Su Cheng visited many places, and these places brought him great feelings.
In front 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 Tianhe Bodyguard Company returned to Xiangjiang one after another, but Su Cheng did not follow them.
In the past ten days, he has generously donated more than HK$500 million for disaster relief operations and material procurement.
Although this amount of money is an astronomical figure to ordinary people, to Su Cheng, it is only part of his social concern and willingness to contribute.
He donated without any regrets. As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
Now that he is quite capable, helping these people is just a simple matter.
Now, with the increase in wealth, money in his eyes is just a string of numbers that is almost difficult to count, because his wealth is increasing every day.
In addition to Hong Kong's Su Group, Hutchison Whampoa Group, Land Group and other companies, his overseas assets are also terrifying.
There are a large number of branches in Japan, the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and other places, creating wealth for him every day.
Money, to him, is just a number.
By inspecting the disaster area, he found that in addition to many houses being washed away, many schools were also washed away.
The result of the school being washed away is that the children have no place to go to school.
On this day, Su Cheng was sitting in an ordinary jeep on the outskirts of a town, inspecting a nearby village.
"Mr. Su, due to the impact of the typhoon, the roof was blown off and some walls collapsed. Now it has become a dangerous building." The staff assigned to him by the government pointed to a group of dangerous buildings 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 inside, Su Cheng also saw a blackboard that had been broken into multiple pieces.
Those tables and wooden stools have long been smashed.
I don’t know when, two little boys of about ten years old came near him, looking at the dilapidated buildings in front of them, silently.
"Children, are you students here?" Su Cheng asked curiously.
"Well, we will be in third grade after summer vacation, but now, uncle, do you think we have no place to study." A slightly taller boy raised his head and looked at the person next to him. asked the strange uncle.
"No, you must have books to read. Maybe your new classroom will be brighter and safer, and won't be blown down because of the typhoon." Su Cheng looked in front of him. He looked at the two primary school students in the dilapidated classroom and said with a smile.
Previously, I was willing to donate HK$500 million in supplies.
In this case, why not rebuild their schools.
Donating to these schools does not cost him a lot of money.
For this reason, Sioux City decided to build new schools for them in various places in the disaster area.
He told the local government his idea.
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 successfully implement his decision.
"Mr. Su, on behalf of everyone, I would like to express my deep gratitude to you for your noble integrity. At the same time, we have a proposal. We hope that the school can be named after you, such as Su City Primary School and Su City Junior High School. We think this is a great fit!”
After learning of this great kindness, the local government expressed their sincere gratitude to Sioux City and elaborated on their thoughts.
At first, Su Cheng had no such plan. He was not particularly concerned about the name of the school. Anyway, after the donation, the reputation would be there, so there was no need to care about the name.
But after some careful consideration, he realized that since he had decided to donate, naming the school after him was actually his commitment to the quality of the school's architecture.
He thought that if there were quality problems in the project, wouldn't it live up to the expectations of students and parents, and might even cause harm to students?
So in the end he readily accepted the offer.
According to statistics, a total of 128 primary schools and 26 junior high schools were damaged in the disaster area.
In this era, the construction cost of building these schools is actually not very high, and labor can be said to account for the majority.
After the statistical information was handed over to Su Cheng, Su Cheng decided without hesitation that he would pay for all the reconstruction funds for these schools.
Today, he is not short of money. As a Chinese, you should help your own people.
What do rich people do charity for? It's not just for a good reputation.
Su Cheng did not deny this.
Just like the Shaw School, Tin Ka Ping School, etc. that he knew in his previous life.
In the end, Sioux City decided to dispatch the construction engineering teams from Hutchison Real Estate Company and Su's Real Estate Company.
During the real estate recession in the past two years, many companies in the real estate industry have suffered serious losses. Therefore, real estate development in Xiangjiang has dropped significantly in the past two years.
Many of the professional construction workers in the past have lost their jobs.
The real estate industry under Sioux City has not been affected by the real estate bubble and continues to develop according to the established plan.
At the same time, various real estate companies under Sioux City are also recruiting more professional construction workers in the market.
Therefore, even the real estate companies in Sioux City have no shortage of personnel.
In the 1980s, more than 150 schools were built at much lower costs than in later generations.
Despite this, he generously allocated a budget of more than HK$300 million to ensure that the construction of these schools was of high quality.
For a time, more than 100 Sioux City primary schools and Sioux City junior high schools in Guangdong and Fujian provinces started construction almost simultaneously.
However, the construction of a new teaching building does not happen overnight.
Even for rural primary schools, although the structure is simple and a large number of workers are invested to speed up the project progress, it still takes at least half a year.
Therefore, how to solve children's learning problems in the next semester has become an urgent problem to be solved.
This problem is actually not difficult to solve. In the end, after in-depth discussions with the local government, Suzhou City decided to equip each school with prefabricated prefabricated houses as temporary teaching spaces.
In this way, children will have a place to study when they enter school in September.
Although the prefab house may be hot in the summer, these children are from rural areas and have experienced more difficult environments, so this difficulty is not a big deal to them.
What's more, after October, the weather will gradually get cooler.
The choice of prefabricated houses was out of helplessness. After all, even a powerful enterprise like Su City cannot build more than 100 schools in just half a month.
That is not a realistic and feasible solution, but an unattainable myth.
Sioux City’s decision quickly spread to various provinces and cities through mainland media, attracting widespread attention.
Originally, although Sioux City is famous around the world, its popularity in the mainland is relatively limited.
However, after this incident, Sioux City's popularity in the mainland has been significantly improved, and its reputation has become increasingly famous.
For this reason, CCIV TV News specially reported on the glorious deeds of Sioux City, which made people across the country have a deeper impression of Sioux City.
Engaging in such a large-scale charity will inevitably reap corresponding rewards.
A good reputation is undoubtedly one of the most valuable rewards that charity can bring.
Donated to more than 100 schools at one time, donated a large amount of materials during the typhoon disaster, and personally led more than 1,000 people to participate in disaster relief. Such a feat can only be accomplished by Sioux City.
In contrast, most other Hong Kong businessmen only donated a few million Hong Kong dollars, neither personally visiting the disaster areas nor investing such huge sums of money.
The reason why Su Cheng was so generous was not only pursuing a good reputation, but more importantly, he was a mainlander in his previous life and had deep feelings for this land.
Although he has become a native of Xiangjiang in this life, he always remembers that he is a son and daughter of China.
The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, so we always spare no effort to give back to the society and contribute a little of our own strength.
This is not something great. To him, it is just a trivial matter. Since it can help, why not help?
Su Cheng stayed in the mainland for a full month.
It wasn’t until mid-September that Sioux City returned to Xiangjiang.
Su Cheng, who returned to Xiangjiang, was no longer in the mainland, but he still paid attention to the information there. The person in charge of the school reconstruction project had to report the progress to him every once in a while.
This incident was also widely reported by the media in Hong Kong.
It is worth mentioning that the media that reported this time are not the media under Sioux City. Instead, media such as "Ta Kung Pao", "Sin Chew Daily", TVB and other media have continuously reported on Sioux City. This is a charity event.
After this move, Sioux City gained a lot of reputation.
These reputations are not so easy to accumulate.
In October, Su Cheng was invited to Xiangjiang University again and gave a lecture.
Su Cheng once donated HK$100 million to Hong Kong University to support the development of some science and technology majors at Hong Kong University. It can be said that he is now the largest financial backer of Hong Kong University.
For this reason, Su Cheng also has the title of honored school director among Xiangjiang University.
Facing thousands of students from Xiangjiang University, Su Cheng behaved very calmly.
Xiangjiang University is not yet a world-class university, it can only be regarded as a first-class university in the region.
Many majors, but also behave very ordinary.
But Su City knows that in the future, Xiangjiang is already qualified to be among the top universities in the world.
In the past few years, Xiangjiang University has actually provided him with a lot of help. This help refers to providing him with many talents from all walks of life.
Therefore, Sioux City is not opposed to supporting the academic development of Xiangjiang University.
After the speech, Su Cheng made another decision and donated another HK$100 million to Hong Kong University.
Compared to the time when I donated to Xiangjiang University in order to develop the technology industry in Xiangjiang a few years ago, the assets in Suzhou City today are many times what they were then.
At that time, he was even willing to give 100 million Hong Kong dollars to Hong Kong University, let alone now.
Today, he is worth at least hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.
If you had thousands of dollars, would you care about one dollar?
It’s basically impossible to care too much.
This is the case in Sioux City.
He now has hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in assets, although only part of it is in cash, but it is only 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and he really doesn't care.
Just like donations to disaster areas, school donations, etc. in the mainland, he has spent more than 800 million Hong Kong dollars.
But HK$800 million is just a very small sum of money for him. (End of this chapter)