196 1 year, the Portuguese government turned Macao into a permanent gambling area, and the gambling industry in Macao was officially legalized. Mr. Stanley Ho seized the opportunity to form an alliance with Henry Fok, Han Ye (the God of Gambling) and Teddy Yip to bid for the franchise of Macau casino, and took the first step on the road of "gambling king".
1989, considering the need of traffic, Stanley Ho invested in the construction of the Macau New Macau Passenger Terminal, which can handle130,000 passengers per year; The helicopter business was opened, and a helicopter airport was built on the roof of the Hong Kong and Macao Wharf Building./KLOC-0 was officially opened at the end of 990.
In the early 1990s, Macao established a number of casinos such as "Palace Casino". Besides Hong Kong and Macau, Mr. Stanley Ho has also invested in many countries, including Vietnam, North Korea, the Philippines and Portugal. In addition to gambling, Mr. Ho's industry also involves real estate, construction, shipping, investment and other fields.
In 2008, Macau Group was successfully listed in Hong Kong, and Forbes magazine announced that Stanley Ho was the 19 richest man in Hong Kong. 20 13 In April, after winning the Tongzhou complex project, Shun Tak Group, which is controlled by Shun Tak Group, acquired the Contemporary Energy Saving Building, an office building located in the prime location of Dongzhimen on the Second Ring Road in Beijing, at a price of/kloc-0.29 billion yuan.
By 20 19, according to "2 1 Century Business Herald", Stanley Ho owned a number of enterprises, including SJM Holdings, Melco International, Shun Tak Group, Macau International Airport Franchise Company, Ace International, Macau Chengxing Bank, etc., whose business areas involved real estate, transportation, hotels, investment, gambling, tourism and so on. , the highest control assets of 5000.
Stanley Ho pays more than HK$ 4 billion in taxes every year, accounting for more than 50% of Macao's total fiscal revenue. One third of Macao people are directly or indirectly employed by his company and benefit from it.
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Mr. Stanley Ho devoted himself to the protection of national cultural relics;
All along, Stanley Ho has insisted on protecting and promoting Macao's unique Chinese and Western cultures, and participated in supporting various tourism, cultural and sports activities in Macao, including sponsoring the annual Macao Grand Prix Competition, Macao Art Festival and Macao Music Festival.
At the same time, Mr. Stanley Ho is also committed to protecting national cultural relics. 1988 donated boxwood sculptures to the Palace Museum. In 2009, he shot five works of art, including oil painting treaty of nanking, Grand Ceremony of the Century, President Mao Zedong Meets Heath and bronze sculpture Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, all of which were donated to the National Museum.
In 2003 and 2007, he made two moves to send back two bronze statues of Dashuifa pig head and horse head in Yuanmingyuan as gifts to Beijing.
China Com- Stanley Ho, the gambling king of Macau, died at the age of 98, and the legendary generation finally died.
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