150 years ago, Shanxi's ticket numbers were all over the Far East, and the ** empire appeared on the stage of history;
After Chiang Kai-shek came to power, the Zheshang group behind it became the largest merchant gang in China;
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the private merchant gang was once hidden;
Now that China's open market economy has become the world's second economic power, and the business gang culture has made a comeback, do you know that China's largest business gang is in the **? How rich is it?
The Pearl River Delta, the richest region in contemporary China, was also born here with the strongest merchant gang, known as the Chao merchants of the Oriental Jews.
The four first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the Pearl River Delta accounts for two, and Hong Kong, one of the world's three major financial centers, in addition to Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
The power to create all this comes from Chaoshan!
What is Chaoshan Gang?
The Chaoshan consortium composed of 3 million Chaoshan people in Shenzhen, 1.5 million Chaoshan people in Hong Kong, and 8 million of the 9 million Chinese in Thailand are from Chaoshan.
The name Chaoshan was first used in 1904 when the railway connecting Chaozhou and Shantou was built, and in 1991 the region was divided into several prefecture-level cities, and now consists of four cities: Chaozhou, Jieyang, Shantou and Shanwei.
Chaoshan people are naturally sensitive to business, have a strong business style, are good at holding together for warmth, and have strong dominance in traditional industries such as chemicals, clothing, and home furnishings.
The starting price of the entire 2023 Hurun China 100 Rich List is 5 billion assets, including 54 Chaoshan billionaires, with a total wealth of 1,541.2 billion yuan.
The richest man in Chaoshan. 
The richest man in Chaoshan, there is no doubt that Li Ka-shing, Li Ka-shing's wealth strength is needless to say, the previous article has been fully introduced, the book data of 39 billion US dollars is not as good as the Internet rich in the mainland, but one-third of Li Ka-shing's wealth has not been announced, and the assets of the youngest son Li Zekai and Li Ka-shing** are not counted in Li Ka-shing's name, in fact, the real wealth of the entire Li family is at least 60 billion US dollars of real gold**.
This representative of Chinese businessmen who is unique in the world, his ancestral home is Chao'an, Chaozhou, and he was also born and raised in Chao'an.
Chaoshan, Hong Kong. Hong Kong's economy was able to take off after the war, millions of Chaoshan people contributed to it, the world's toy king Cai Zhiming is a native of Jieyang Jiedong, the president of Dickson Group, Pan Disheng is a Chaozhou person, he is also Michelle Yeoh's ex-husband, and the romantic and wealthy Liu Luanxiong is also a Chao'an person, with a wealth of nearly 100 billion, and the Lin Baixin family who invested in the filming of "Infernal Affairs" is a native of Chaoyang County, Shantou.
Luo Ruikang of Shui On Group is a native of Puning, Jieyang, his father is the Thai billionaire Luo Yingshi, and the six sons of the Lao Luo family are all billionaires, and he himself married Huo Zhenting's ex-wife Zhu Lingling, and Emperor Entertainment Yang Shoucheng's ancestral home is also Chaozhou.
The tide businessmen who are developing in the mainland are as strong as they are, and the most beautiful one here has to be Huang Guangyu, the richest man in China for three times, who is playing the strength of the local snake.
Yao Zhenhua of the Wanbao dispute also made an appearance on behalf of the Chaoshan Gang, Ma Huateng was born in Hainan because of his father's work, but his hometown is Shantou Chaonan District, and Tencent's other founder Chen Yidan is also from Shantou Chaonan.
The strength of Jieyang Puning is also very strong, Lai Haimin of Hongrongyuan Real Estate, Huang Chulong of Galaxy Real Estate, and Chen Kaixuan of Liby Group are all from Jieyang Puning, with a wealth of 50 billion, 49 billion and 32 billion respectively, Chen Kaichen, another boss of Liby, also has a wealth of 18 billion yuan, Zhang Jun and Tao Meiying, founders of Fude Group, have a wealth of 22 billion, and Li Dongsheng of TCL Group has a wealth of 8 billion, all of whom are from Jieyang Jiexi.
Lin Bin, the second-in-command of Xiaomi Group, is a native of Rongcheng, Jieyang, and Zhu Dingjian, chairman of Mission Hills Group, has a fortune of 27 billion, and is a native of Raoping, Chaozhou.
Chen Huwen and Chen Huxiong, the founders of Chenguang Group, each have a wealth of 11 billion, and the other boss, Chen Xueling, also has a wealth of 6 billion, and all three are from Chaoyang, Shantou.
Yashili, who sells milk powder, the boss Zhang Litian is also from Chao'an, Lin Muqin and Lin Yupeng of Dongpeng Beverage have a fortune of 43 billion and are from Shanwei, Tu Huilong, the founder of Haiya Group, has a fortune of 27 billion, and is a native of Luhe, Shanwei, Zhou Zerong, the founder of Kingold Group, whose ancestral home is Chaonan, Shantou, has a wealth of 22 billion, and Huang Guangmiao, the founder of Zhongzhou Group, whose ancestral home is Haojiang, Shantou, has a wealth of 20 billion.
In addition, Chaoshan tycoons with a wealth of more than 10 billion yuan include Huang Maoru of Maoye Group, Cai Dongqing of Aofei Entertainment, Zhang Wanzhen of Sanhuan Group, Su Suyu of Luen Mei Group, Gong Junlong of Hengyu Group, Huang Shizai of Great China Real Estate, Xu Yingzhuo of Haid Group, and Shen Hanbiao of Good Wife Group.
Take control of the Teochew Gang in Thailand.
After looking at the strength of domestic Chaoshan merchants, let's take a look at how Chaoshan merchants rule Thailand, Thailand is the country with the largest number of overseas Chaoshan people, the country's top 50 richest people, Chinese occupy half of the country, and there are 10 people whose ancestral home is Chaoshan, Thailand's richest man Xie Guomin family is from Shantou Chenghai, and the lifeblood of the Xie consortium to control Thailand's economy is the real "King of Thailand".
There are also Su Xuming, the third richest man in Thailand, TCC Group, Hou Yeshun of Thai Life Insurance, Li Zhizheng of Ayutthaya Bank, Huang Chuangshan of BTS Group Holdings, Chen Zhishen of Bangkok Bank, Wu Yuyin, the queen of real estate, Li Guanglong, the first largest businessman, and the family of Chen Bichen, a Southeast Asian financial giant who has been rich for four generations.
Even former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ancestral home is Chaoshan.
From a global perspective, Singapore's Nippon Paint Wu Qingliang and Zhong Shengjian, France's Chen Kewei Chen Keguang, Australia's Chow Chak Wing Zheng Songming, and Malaysia's Zhong Yansen are all representatives of Chao businessmen.
Throughout the history of more than 1,000 years of city building in the Chaoshan region, the development of this area has maintained positive progress, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Chaoshan people united blood relations to resist pirates, and finally formed a strong style of never-say-die clan culture, which became a sharp sword in the commercial society.
You see Wang Jianlin is getting big every year by the problem of funds, but it is almost difficult for you to see that the Chaoshang Chamber of Commerce is in trouble because of the financial problem, in the major IPO or merger and acquisition cases, the bottom line of the Chaoshang capital is always unfathomable, if the Chaoshang needs funds, the first time is not to go to the bank, but to return to the clan.
The intercourse of clan power has also led to corruption in the enterprises of the Chaoshang Gang, and even Li Ka-shing's return to his hometown to invest has been brought to court, and the famous Tazhai Village is the prototype of China's first drug-making village, Boshe Village, which is located in Lufeng, Shanwei.
Shantou 715 fire.
2000 is the peak of the Chaoshan region, but also the beginning of stagnation, in the same year, the first team to crack down on fraudulent export tax rebates stationed in Shantou Chaoyang and Puning, found more than 1,000 export enterprises more than 98% of the illegal.
At 4:55 a.m. on 15 July 2000, a major fire broke out at the State Guest House on Haibin Road in Shantou City, killing five people and injuring three.
Unlike other fires, 121 police officers arrived along with the firefighters, because the residents of Building 2 of the State Guest House were from Beijing, and they had just finished handling the Zhanjiang smuggling case before moving to Shantou, during which they also handled the Yuanhua smuggling case next door.
Such a successful working group has been working in Shantou for more than a year, but it still runs into walls everywhere, and the cause of the fire is also defined as an accident.
After the incident, 64 working groups and armed police forces went to eastern Guangdong to investigate and deal with about 150 tax-related criminal gangs, involving more than 4 billion yuan, which can be called the "first tax case of the Republic".
In the end, the exodus of Chaoshan tycoons and the relocation of enterprises affected almost half of China's manufacturing industry. The lesson of this fire is profound, Shantou, as one of the first four special economic zones in the country, has been in a slump after experiencing the glory of the 90s, and its development is far lower than that of Zhuhai and Xiamen.
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