Slogan of Li Ka-shing Airport

When Li Ka-shing withdrew from China, the Li Ka-shing family invested more and more in Britain. Many people say that Li Ka-shing bought half of Britain, which is hardly an exaggeration.

Li Ka-shing currently controls 30% of the natural gas market, a quarter of the electricity distribution market and about 5% of the water supply market in Britain. In addition, Li Ka-shing has three ports, 1 communication company, an airport, real estate and high-speed rail company in Britain. Li Ka-shing has invested nearly HK$ 400 billion in Britain in recent years.

Li Ka-shing has withdrawn a lot of assets from China, and most of its wealth is in Britain. At present, Europe's revenue has accounted for nearly 50% of Li Ka-shing Group, while Greater China has only 30% left. Because Hong Kong was once a British colony, the elderly in Hong Kong have always had special feelings for Britain. In 2000, Li Ka-shing was also awarded the title of KBE by the Queen of England.

However, we found an interesting thing, that is, Li Ka-shing chose Canadian citizenship instead of British citizenship. Li Ka-shing not only has Canadian citizenship himself, but also his two sons, Li Zeju and Li Zekai.

Why did Li Ka-shing choose Canada instead of Britain with huge assets in Li Ka-shing?

As early as 1980s, Li Ka-shing naturalized his two sons in Canada, because Canada is a very free country, allowing multiple nationalities. It is also because of Canadian citizenship that the Li Ka-shing family can make such a big investment in Canada.

Apart from Britain, Canada is also a country where the Li Ka-shing family invested heavily. In the middle of last year, Li Ka-shing also quietly acquired Reliance Home Comfort, a well-known Canadian heater and air conditioner supplier, for 2.82 billion Canadian dollars. The Li Ka-shing family invested at least 30 billion Canadian dollars, equivalent to more than 23 billion dollars.

Li Ka-shing's March into Canada can be traced back to 1977. At this time, Li Ka-shing had just gained a foothold in Hongkong, and his Yangtze River was successfully listed on 1972. 1977, Li Ka-shing bought the first batch of real estate in Canada. Five years later, he bought the port hotel in Toronto, Canada with a capital increase of 600 million. At the same time, it acquired Canada Jindi for 3.2 billion yuan and entered Canadian real estate.

Li Ka-shing's most successful Canadian investment was his purchase of shares in Husky Energy in the late 1980s. At that time, he bought most shares of Husky Energy Company through his Hutchison Whampoa Company, himself, his eldest son Li Zeju and CIBC, the Canadian Imperial Commercial Bank.

It is worth mentioning that Imperial Commercial Bank of Canada also owns shares in Li Ka-shing, with Li Ka-shing holding about 9%. In fact, at that time, Husky Energy encountered difficulties in capital turnover mainly because of the periodicity of energy, and there was no accounting crisis in itself. Li Ka-shing bought the Husky Energy Company, and has held it ever since. The investment only paid dividends, which brought a return of $8 billion to Li Ka-shing. Today, there is a person in Li Ka-shing who holds a 32% stake in Husky Energy, worth more than $654.38+0 billion.

1998, Li Ka-shing and two other Hong Kong tycoons, Lee Shau Kee and Zheng Yutong, jointly established Concord Pacific Company, and obtained the right to develop the former site of the Vancouver World Expo. The whole development plan lasted/kloc-0.5 to 20 years, and the investment reached/kloc-0.27 billion yuan. Li Ka-shing personally holds 50% of the shares of the whole project.

In 20 10, he invested in Kobo, a Canadian e-book network, which developed very fast and may challenge Amazon's dominant position in the future. 2065438+In June 2006, Li Ka-shing entered the Canadian uranium mine and invested 60 million US dollars in Naishigen Company.

Changjiang Infrastructure, one of Li Ka-shing's four flagships, invested in Stanley Power Inc, which owns six power plants in Canada.

Therefore, Canada's very good policies, coupled with Li Ka-shing's huge assets in Canada, finally contributed to the Li Ka-shing family's decision to immigrate to Canada. Well, the richest man in Canada should be Li Ka-shing.