1995 and in 2005, he succeeded Mr. Fok Yingdong and Mr. Zhuang Shiping in successfully leading the Discovery Park Sports Association and the World Outstanding Chinese Foundation respectively. He led Discovery Park Sports Association to make unremitting efforts to build a Hong Kong football brand. In recent years, he has represented Hong Kong in the Asian Football Association Cup and other international exchange activities every year. Basketball teams, table tennis teams, swimming teams, track and field teams, life-saving teams and other professional teams as well as mass sports training projects continue to develop. In recent years, the World Outstanding Chinese Foundation has also co-sponsored the Time Chinese Conference with more than 300 outstanding Chinese from all over the world, published books to popularize Chinese cultural knowledge, and held a variety of activities such as the "China's most beautiful voice" public service performance, taking culture as a link to promote Chinese exchanges around the world.
In recent years, he deeply felt that he would expand the backbone of patriotism and love for Hong Kong from a wider range of fields, such as sports, professions, culture and social grassroots, support the administration of the SAR Government and maintain close ties with the motherland. Therefore, Dr. Shuhao Zhu joined hands with the sports workers in Hong Kong to promote the establishment of the China Sports Workers' Federation (Hong Kong); Unite the middle class, middle class and professionals in Hong Kong and initiate the establishment of the Hong Kong Business Association. In addition, Dr. Shuhao Zhu is also the President of Kowloon Association, the largest non-governmental organization in Hong Kong. The Kowloon Federation of Associations integrates various organizations in Kowloon to promote economic cooperation, employment training and people's livelihood welfare. Now it has successfully developed nearly 654.38+200,000 members, which has become a powerful force to promote harmony and stability in Hong Kong.
In 2007, on the occasion of the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China 10, Dr. Shuhao Zhu launched the largest Putonghua promotion fund in Hong Kong with a capital of HK$ 20 million. Facing the Hong Kong society, we will carry out Putonghua promotion and exchange activities in various forms. And held a large-scale "Hong Kong 18 District Celebrating the Return to Putonghua Competition" in Hong Kong 18 District, with 730,000 people signing up, which set off a craze for learning Putonghua in Hong Kong. At the same time, Dr. Shuhao Zhu also invested HK$ 6,543,800,000 to establish the Hong Kong People's Livelihood Democratic Forces Foundation, aiming at promoting people's livelihood democracy that the government and citizens are most concerned about, cultivating young political and public management talents, promoting vocational training and employment in Hong Kong, and providing decision-making suggestions for government administration. In the year of its establishment, it sponsored 22 grassroots organizations to carry out various livelihood service activities and organized 1500 volunteers, benefiting 50,000 people. At the same time, it also trains young political and public management talents through a series of training courses for political leaders. In the 2007 Hong Kong District Council election, the Foundation supported 88 patriots and lovers of Hong Kong to stand for election, and 58 people were elected.
In 2007, the 65,438+00th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Dr. Shuhao Zhu also spent nearly HK$ 20 million to organize more than 65,438+00 colorful activities through various societies and institutions he led. Including inviting 1000 China martial arts masters from all over the world to gather in Hongkong to hold the "Sword Down on the Lion Mountain" activity; Invite the European football team Barcelona to visit Hong Kong for the first time; Sponsor a number of cultural activities that bring together outstanding Chinese musicians around the world; Hold the Hong Kong Putonghua Competition; Initiate and support the July 1 return parade; Jointly organize large-scale fireworks display and "symphony of lights" series of fireworks activities with other societies to celebrate the reunification and inspire the confidence of Hong Kong people and the motherland to reach a new milestone together.
Over the years, Dr. Shuhao Zhu has also sponsored large-scale public welfare activities such as the Hong Kong traditional fireworks display. 1999, Hong Kong was hit by the Asian financial crisis, and the traditional Spring Festival fireworks display lasted for 17 years. In the second year after the handover, there was no sponsorship. When Dr. Shuhao Zhu heard the news, he immediately moved the support of other organizations and encouraged the citizens to meet the challenge and get out of the trough. In 2006 and 2008, Dr. Shuhao Zhu also sponsored the 57th Anniversary Fireworks Gala of Hong Kong National Day and the 2008 Beijing-Hong Kong Spring Festival Fireworks Gala, which set an example for Hong Kong businesses to participate in social affairs. Dr Shuhao Zhu has great influence and extensive international relations and resources in the sports and cultural circles at home and abroad. As the only invited consultant of Beijing Olympic bid committee, he has made great contributions to the national century project of Beijing Olympic bid. He has long been the "folk ambassador" of China's sports culture to the world, striving to hold international competitions and win glory for the country.
Dr Shuhao Zhu is the most outstanding representative of Hong Kong people who participated in the Olympic bid. As early as the century project of Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, Dr. Shuhao Zhu was hired as the only invited consultant by the Beijing Olympic bid committee. When the Olympic bid was most needed, he mobilized his accumulated international relations for many years, traveled around the world, and carried out key public relations work for important people such as the chairman of the evaluation Committee of the International Olympic Committee and the head of the evaluation team of the bidding city, Verbruggen. He invited senior experts from all over the world to form an international expert advisory group to participate in the whole process of Beijing's Olympic bid, put forward hundreds of key strategic suggestions urgently needed by Beijing from an international perspective, and used the powerful international resources and contacts of the advisory group to promote their implementation. At the "Report on Beijing's Successful Bid for the 2008 Olympic Games", Dr. Shuhao Zhu was hailed as a "great contribution". The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference, Jia Qinglin, former secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee, member the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Liu Qi, secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee, have repeatedly praised Dr. Shuhao Zhu's contribution to the Olympic bid. In 2006, Dr. Shuhao Zhu made full use of his deep friendship with FISU President Mr. Kirian and others for many years, and launched fruitful international public relations for Shenzhen's successful bid to host the 201KLOC-0 World Universiade. At the same time, as one of the six diamond sponsors, Dr. Shuhao Zhu actively supported Hong Kong to host the 2009 East Asian Games. To support Hong Kong in hosting the equestrian events of the 2008 Olympic Games, Dr. Shuhao Zhu actively assisted the Hong Kong government in coordinating the arrangement of equestrian venues. When the stadium of Hong Kong Golf Club was affected by the construction of equestrian venues and competitions, he provided the venue of his Mission Hills Golf Club to the members of Hong Kong Golf Club for free, which solved the worries of the whole event preparation and competition.
In the process of promoting China sports to the world, Dr. Shuhao Zhu has long been committed to supporting the development of low-valley sports and weak sports. 1995, China women's volleyball team was at a historical low. In order to revive the women's volleyball team and win a comeback in the 1996 Olympic Games, Dr. Shuhao Zhu helped Ms. Lang Ping to cancel the foreign peace treaty and return to China to coach the women's volleyball team in China, and won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympic Games. In addition, he also launched the China Sports Fund to support the China Youth Football Team to go to Brazil for training. Establish a golf training base to support the establishment and training of the first national golf team in China. Establish a tennis training base, support the winter training of China national tennis team for a long time, and push China women tennis players Li Ting and Sun to achieve a breakthrough of zero gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. Zheng Jie and YanZi won the Australian Open and Wimbledon women's doubles championships in 2006 respectively.
Since 1995, Dr. Shuhao Zhu has held nearly 100 international golf, tennis, table tennis and cycling competitions, international sports superstar visits and sports cultural exchange activities in Chinese mainland and Hongkong. Including: 1995, China hosted the Golf World Cup for the first time, which is known as the "Golf Olympics"; 1995 and 65438+2006 5438+0, tiger woods, the world's best athlete, was invited to visit China successfully for the first time, which showed the support of the international sports community for Beijing's Olympic bid.
At present, Dr. Shuhao Zhu has successfully won the Golf World Cup (Men's) Finals for China, which has been called "Golf Olympics" for consecutive years 12 years, and only the national team participated. At the same time, it also won the priority to host the second 12 annual event. In one fell swoop, it broke the history that top golf events were arranged by Europe and America. The 2007 Golf World Cup was successfully held on June 5438+065438+ 10, 2007, with teams from 28 countries and regions participating. 148 countries and 24 TV stations in China broadcast live. With sports as a bridge, it publicized China's new development achievements and created a new platform for international exchanges in economy, culture and sports. Nowadays, China pays more and more attention to the development of soft power. Dr. Shuhao Zhu not only devoted himself to promoting international sports exchanges, but also made great achievements in promoting educational and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and the Mainland and overseas.
In the Mainland, it has successively supported the teaching, scientific research and international exchange activities of Shenzhen University, Nankai University, South China Normal University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Nanjing University. Including: In 2003, South China Normal University took the lead in establishing the discipline of sports and leisure, which filled the gap that there was no specialized discipline of sports and leisure in domestic universities to meet the requirements of talents and scientific research for the development of domestic sports and leisure industry. After Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, Dr. Shuhao Zhu learned that compared with advanced countries such as Europe and America, China is very short of internationally recognized senior physiotherapy talents, which can't meet the needs of the Beijing Olympic Games, let alone the needs of national health projects. Therefore, he suggested to the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sports that he should contribute 20 million Hong Kong dollars to support the joint training program of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology to train the first batch of internationally certified senior physiotherapists for China. Since its establishment in 2004, the project has trained more than 200 senior masters.
As early as the mid-1990s, in order to promote the international community's attention to China's economic research, Dr. Shuhao Zhu established the course "265438+20th Century Asia-Pacific Studies" and "Shuhao Zhu Scholarship" at the University of Toronto, which was a long-term strategic exchange plan and promoted the international community's attention to China. Since 2007, he has also set up a public management course program at the University of Western Ontario, aiming at strengthening the cooperation between China and international universities in the education of government and public management talents, and cultivating public policy and management talents with an international perspective.
Dr. Shuhao Zhu also strongly supports the popularization of education in key investment areas and economically underdeveloped areas. Initiated Shenzhen Education Development Fund and served as honorary president. He also donated some full-time standard primary schools to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Shaanxi provinces. Also donated to build the Hong Kong primary and secondary school library.
In terms of culture, Dr. Shuhao Zhu also strongly invited China cultural elites to carry out international cultural exchange activities to enhance the voice of China culture in the world. From 2005 to 2006, in response to Shenzhen's bid for the World University Games and Dongguan's bid for the International Garden City, Dr. Shuhao Zhu promoted a series of large-scale cultural public welfare performances, including "Cheering for Shenzhen" and "Cheering for Dongguan", inviting Fortune 500 companies and large foreign-funded enterprises to attend and participate, which enhanced the sense of belonging of international investors. In 2006, it also supported 10 music schools across the Taiwan Straits to select 100 music students, launched the China College Students Symphony Orchestra across the Taiwan Straits, and cooperated with the world's most outstanding China pianist Lang Lang and other international top musicians to cultivate China's cultural reserve force. In June 2006, Dr. Shuhao Zhu organized a large-scale cultural exchange activity of "The Most Beautiful Voice in China" in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and invited 136 NPC representatives from Hong Kong and CPPCC members to form the Preparatory Committee. It attracted 8,000 people including local government, industry and commerce, professional celebrities, community leaders, representatives from all walks of life, central institutions in Hong Kong, representatives of national and provincial people's congresses, CPPCC members in Hong Kong, and consuls from various countries in Hong Kong. It has promoted international cultural exchanges in Hong Kong.
Dr. Shuhao Zhu lobbied and promoted Lang Lang, the most outstanding young pianist in the world, to return from overseas and settle in Hong Kong, so as to gather international talents to publicize China culture and enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of Chinese people around the world. In Hong Kong, Lang Lang is expected to be the first international expert to join the "Quality Immigration Entry Program", but due to his tour time in Europe, he can't cooperate. Dr. Zhu even chartered a special plane to arrange for Lang Lang to come to Hong Kong from Europe in time, becoming the first person to cooperate with the publicity, which reflected the attraction of Hong Kong and China to outstanding Chinese and even international talents and had a good influence internationally.
Because of his outstanding contribution to international cultural exchange, in 2004, Dr. Shuhao Zhu was awarded the "Knight of French Culture and Art".
Dr Shuhao Zhu has a patriotic heart whose blood is thicker than water. When the mainland suffers from major disasters such as floods and earthquakes, he always lends a helping hand at the first time, donating money and materials, which reflects the national feelings and friendship of a Hong Kong person.
After the devastating earthquake in Sichuan in May 2008, 12, Dr. Shuhao Zhu, together with the employees of the group, felt the pain of the people in the disaster area and quickly extended a helping hand. * * * Donated HK$ 26 million to the disaster area in three times. The "Shuhao Zhu Orphan Charity Fund" specially set up by china charity federation, Shenzhen Charity Association and Haikou Charity Association was launched to help orphans who lost their parents in the earthquake rekindle their hopes and bravely face their future study and life.
At the donation ceremony held by China People's Political Consultative Conference, Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, thanked Dr. Shuhao Zhu for his love at the critical moment, which showed his patriotism and national feelings. In 2003, during the world-renowned action against SARS, Dr. Shuhao Zhu launched a charity golf activity of "Fighting Inflammation and Giving Love with One Heart". Every day, take out a venue of Mission Hills Golf Club, invite golf lovers from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to offer their love and donate all their money to the Red Cross Societies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
In addition, when the floods in South China in 2005, the floods in South Guangdong in 2006 and the rain and snow disasters in South China in 2008 occurred, Dr. Shuhao Zhu donated money at the first time to help the people in the disaster areas resume their production and life and rebuild their homes. Dr. Shuhao Zhu was the first Hong Kong patriotic industrialist to invest in China at the beginning of reform and opening-up, and all his key investments and core businesses were transferred to China. It has invested more than10 billion yuan successively, creating a new development model of China's leisure industry and becoming the representative of Hong Kong's industrial and commercial circles' contribution to the country.
1977 when China opened the door to reform and opening up, Dr. Shuhao Zhu came from Hongkong to invest in the Pearl River Delta. First, he invested in the paper industry. His SF Paper Products and Red Star Printing are both model enterprises in the same industry, and he has carried out several cooperation projects with CITIC Group, China Resources Group and china national packaging corporation in North America.
After Mr. Deng Xiaoping 1992' s southern tour, he felt that the Pearl River Delta, as the frontier of reform and opening up, needed to be in line with international standards in terms of investment environment and supporting facilities, that is, he began to choose to develop the world's largest Mission Hills Golf International Leisure Industry Group on the barren hills bordering Shenzhen and Dongguan, which not only promoted the development of China's brand-new leisure industry, but also became a demonstration area for economic cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland and an international platform for exchanges between Hong Kong and the Mainland. Dr. Zhu himself has also been praised by China national media as "the first person in sports industry in China".
Over the years, he has also actively put forward strategic suggestions for the governments of investment places, including from 2005 to 2006, he suggested in writing that Dongguan bid for "International Garden City" and strive for the only global urban management award recognized by the United Nations. We also organized international experts to participate in the whole bidding process, so as to promote Dongguan to stand out from the more than 350 cities that signed up for the 2006 International Garden City Finals and win the first place in the "International Garden City" gold medal, thus setting a new example of China's sustainable development in the world as a world manufacturing center. As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Committee for four consecutive years and the deputy director of the 10th and 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Proposal Committee, Dr. Shuhao Zhu participated in the discussion of state affairs by combining his rich experience in investing in the motherland. He has a very high ability to participate in and discuss state affairs, and has provided many valuable suggestions for the decision-making of relevant state departments.
Dr Shuhao Zhu is also a model for Hong Kong people to participate in the national economic development strategy. Over the years, he focused on the following two areas of investigation and research, and constantly put forward suggestions. First, pay attention to the promotion of national soft power. As early as 1994, around the challenge of sports transformation from career to industry in China, Dr. Shuhao Zhu spoke at the CPPCC meeting and suggested that sports in China should be fully marketized, industrialized and internationalized. In recent years, from the perspective of promoting the internationalization of sports, advocating the strategy of cultural going out and the concept of cultural sustainable development with the opportunity of Beijing Olympic Games, we have continuously called for attaching importance to the development of national soft power. Second, take the lead in advocating the development of brand-new leisure industries and vigorously develop new service industries. In 2002, faced with the heavy responsibility of China's economic growth, Dr. Shuhao Zhu proposed at the joint meeting attended by Premier Zhu Rongji that a brand-new leisure industry should be vigorously developed in China to stimulate domestic demand, increase employment and improve people's quality of life. This proposal won the 9th CPPCC Excellent Proposal Award. In 2003, at the joint meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attended by General Secretary Hu Jintao, he once again combined the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers with urbanization, and suggested that the sports leisure industry should be used to promote urbanization. In 2007, Dr. Shuhao Zhu made a speech at the conference, suggesting that in the largest planned industrial restructuring and upgrading in the history of China, Hong Kong's high-end service industry should be promoted to play its advantages and participate in it, so as to create a new round of economic cooperation between the two places.
Since 1994, Dr. Shuhao Zhu has organized relevant experts at home and abroad to focus on the marketization, industrialization and internationalization of sports, vigorously develop the leisure industry in China, develop the leisure industry with the help of the Olympic Games, and promote urbanization with the leisure industry, and carried out four large-scale special investigations. Relevant research results and policy suggestions have been highly valued and instructed by national leaders, and many suggestions have become the decision-making reference of relevant state departments and have been actively promoted. In addition, Dr. Shuhao Zhu's proposal that the charity industry should be fully civilian and professional combined with international successful experience was also included in the key research project of China People's Political Consultative Conference in 2005, and won the excellent proposal of the 10th CPPCC.
Dr. Shuhao Zhu also actively promoted exchanges among CPPCC members in Hong Kong. In 2002, in cooperation with the proposal of the Liaison Office, he initiated and strongly supported the first "CPPCC People's Congress Fun Day in Hong Kong". In recent years, he has participated in organizing and undertaking this activity as the convener every year, making it an annual traditional exchange activity of the CPPCC National People's Congress.
In recognition of his multi-level participation in the economic, sports, cultural and social affairs of Hong Kong and the motherland, the International Asteroid Committee announced in 2005 that three asteroids would be named after Fei and Nie Haisheng, two astronauts of China Shenzhou VI manned spacecraft. This is an affirmation and praise for Dr. Shuhao Zhu's long-term contribution to the country.