Li Ka-shing's business empire is collapsing?

The recent news shows that Li Ka-shing, once the richest Chinese in the world, suffered a double blow. The theory of "Li Ka-shing shorting China" has just pushed the once richest Chinese to the forefront, and the world-famous British withdrawal from the EU has also affected Li Ka-shing; The 88-year-old man has been in business for more than 60 years. Although he has experienced many economic crises, he has never lost a year. However, now this business superman is beginning to show the melancholy of "old age". What happened to Li Ka-shing and his $80 billion business empire?

20 14, Chinese-American lawyer Zhang Jiadun wrote on Forbes. Li Ka-shing sold the property to witness the decline of China's economy. This view was later denied by Li Ka-shing, who has been optimistic about China's economy in public. In fact, from 20 13, Li Ka-shing began to sell off mainland real estate on a large scale, which triggered the panic phenomenon of "fleeing the mainland". Then, according to the 20 15 Hurun Global Rich List of Chinese, Li Ka-shing gave way to Wang Jianlin and became the richest Chinese in the world. When Li Ka-shing withdrew from China, he shifted the focus of his long-term business to Europe, with Britain as its main market. From 20 10 to 20 14, Li Ka-shing has transferred more than half of its assets to Europe, of which Europe accounts for 96.75%. Especially in Britain, Li Ka-shing controls 30% of Britain's electricity supply, 7% of its population's water supply and 25% of its natural gas.

But after the Great Leap Forward to Europe, the result was a bit unexpected. According to Bloomberg's list of the world's richest people, Li Ka-shing's assets have shrunk by 1 1 billion US dollars (about 7.3 billion RMB) as a result of Britain's referendum on June 24th. The investment community said, "The miscalculation of Britain's withdrawal from the EU and Li Ka-shing is essentially a misjudgment of China's economy! He was in such a hurry to go to England because he thought China's economy was dying. He once thought that after the economic storm in China, the rainbow would come, but the beautiful Britain was hard to heal! " At the same time, according to the British "World Economic Review" report that Britain withdrew from the European Union, the global political and economic structure has been greatly divided, and the dual-core era between China and the United States has accelerated. The EU has been out of the competition for the core of the world, and the future world will take the United States and China as the dual cores. Maybe, really, Li Ka-shing guessed the beginning, but didn't guess the end.