Gao Qiqiang is the actor in the TV series "Hurricane", played by Zhang Songwen. He is the boss of the underworld gang, and has participated in criminal activities such as intentional homicide, kidnapping, robbery, and organization, and is a private entrepreneur who uses "promises" as a means and his younger brother's loyalty and blood as capital, stepping into the whirlpool of power step by step.
The play tells the story of the 20-year life-and-death struggle between the righteous forces represented by the front-line criminal policeman An Xin and the underworld forces, and shows the black-and-white contest and complex human nature in the anti-crime operation through group portrait narratives.
Gao Qiqiang's ending was to plead guilty and be sentenced to death in accordance with the law.
In the finale, Gao Qiqiang finally pleaded guilty and stopped the crime, but the crimes he had committed before were irreparable. He was sentenced to death in accordance with the law, paying the price for his crimes.
Gao Qiqiang's character archetype is a combination of multiple real-life cases. Among them are Xu Changyuan, the former mayor of Dalian, and Liu Han and Liu Wei, the leaders of the Sichuan extraordinarily large gang.
Xu Changyuan lived in poverty as a child, he was the eldest son in the family, with four younger brothers and a younger sister. In order to support his younger siblings, he worked hard and eventually became the mayor from a nobody. However, he used his power to accumulate wealth, supported businessmen with officials, and also "protected businessmen with black", and his family business involved many industries, including auto trade, real estate, logistics, etc.
Liu Han and Liu Wei brothers are the leaders of Sichuan's extraordinarily large gang, worth tens of billions, and their business scope spans many fields such as finance, energy and power, real estate, and mining. However, they accumulated wealth through illegal means, committed crimes such as organizing, leading, participating in *** organizations, and intentional homicide, and were finally approved by the Supreme People's Court for execution.
Therefore, Gao Qiqiang's character prototype can be seen as a combination of these real-life cases, both the entrepreneurial experience of hard work, and the scandal of using power and *** means to accumulate wealth.