《The Goldfinger》Zhongcheng Yiyan's prototype is Chen Songqing, chairman of Jianing Group.
Chen Songqing smuggled himself to Hong Kong from Malaysia in the late 1960s. He studied civil engineering in the UK when he was young and became an engineer after coming to Hong Kong.With his outstanding professional abilities and high emotional intelligence, he established a wide range of contacts and businesses and founded his own real estate company in just three years.With the development of Hong Kong's economy, especially the boom of the real estate industry in the 1970s, Chen Songqing seized the opportunity to vigorously develop his own company and established the Jianing Group in the late 1970s.Chen Songqing used various means to obtain a large number of loans, allowing Jianning Group to enter multiple industries and get involved in the stock market.
He used the loan funds to continuously package the group and himself, making everyone think that the Jiani Group was strong, attracting the cooperation of many business giants, and arousing the enthusiasm of investors to buy Jiani Group's stocks.Chen Songqing quickly accumulated more than 10 billion in wealth through this method of rolling money, but this bubble only lasted a few years.In 1983, Jianing Group was forced to suspend trading and liquidate due to heavy debts. Loans from finance companies and banks could not be recovered, and the stocks in the hands of shareholders became worthless.Chen Songqing was investigated for paying bribes to obtain loans and creating economic bubbles. The debt of Jia Ning Group reached 10 billion.
Before Chen Songqing was arrested, the director of a financial company was strangled to death when he was in charge of investigating the 4 billion debt case of Jia Ning Group. The lawyer responsible for Jia Ning's industrial transactions drowned in the swimming pool. The judge who tried Chen Song Qing's case was killed in a car accident.Another ICAC investigation director responsible for the Jia Ning case committed suicide.These four people who had important relationships with Jianing Group and Chen Songqing died one after another. However, the police investigation results announced that three of them committed suicide. The murderer and evidence could not be found, and all investigations could only end in vain.Chen Songqing denied all charges in the final trial. The 17-year case involved funds of US$6.6 billion, but Chen Songqing was only sentenced to three years in prison and was released early two years later on the grounds of medical treatment.Today, Chen Songqing lives in a mansion in the New Territories with his wife and children.