This family came to China in 153, and has been rich for six generations now. Which one is it?

Friends who have been to Taikooli in Sanlitun, Beijing, will be infected by the fashion atmosphere here. 19 The layout of low-density contemporary buildings is also impressive. Sanlitun Taikooli is the first commercial complex project built and put into use by Swire Property in the Mainland.

Perhaps many people don't know that behind Swire Properties stands a giant company. This is the Swire Group of the Huaiya Shi family. In Hong Kong, Swire, together with Jardine Matheson of Caesar, Hutchison of Kai Tak and Huidefeng of Maden, are called the "Four Great Foreign Firms". Their founders are all British. As a family business, the Huaiya Shi family has been passed down for six generations and has not declined after the two world wars.

Hutchison Whampoa's shareholding in Defeng was acquired by Li Ka-shing, the richest man in China, and Bao Yugang, the world shipping king. Jardine Matheson's influence in Hong Kong has declined a lot since it moved its registered place to Bermuda. Only Huaiya Shi family's Swire Group still maintains a strong growth momentum.

The group's business involves shipping, aviation, real estate, transportation, refrigeration, trade and industry, insurance, agriculture, retail and so on. Among them, the total market value of companies listed in Hong Kong alone exceeds HK$ 200 billion. If you count those unlisted assets, you can only describe them as extremely rich. It can be said that even families like Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau Kee, Zheng Yutong and Guo Desheng are not rivals.

Swire Group is a British company established nearly 200 years ago, but it is closely related to China. As early as 153 years ago, the Huaiya Shi family came to China to do business. At that time, they established trade and shipping agency business in Shanghai. After continuous development, they have become the largest foreign-funded shipping enterprise in China, and are known as "the king of shipping". In import and export trade, industry, commerce and other fields, it also has huge assets and rights.

Subsequently, the Huaiya Shi family turned their attention to Hongkong, where they established their own business empire.

Today, Swire Properties has become the second largest property developer in Hong Kong after Sun Hung Kai Properties. Cathay Pacific, controlled by Swire, is the third largest profitable airline and the largest air freight forwarding company in the world. Swire is also a dealer of Volkswagen, and even the boss behind Dulux paint is Swire.

In fact, from the moment you fly to Hong Kong, life has been linked with Swire Group. Cathay Pacific, Dragonair and Air China are all companies controlled or owned by Swire. As the gathering place of Hong Kong's richest people, the most eye-catching landmark of Taiping Mountain is the opus Hong Kong Mansion developed by Swire Properties, with a price of nearly 700,000 square meters.

Whether staying at the East Corner Hotel, shopping in the center of Taikoo Shing, or taking out a bag of Taikoo candy while drinking coffee, you are spending money for Taikoo.

Swire Coca-Cola bottling plant has more than 65,438+05,000 employees, real estate business has more than 2,000 employees, and aviation business has 25,000 employees worldwide.

The net assets of the Mainland and Hong Kong account for 85% of the total net assets of Swire Group, of which the shipping and shipbuilding business alone reached 77.4 billion yuan.

At the same time, Swire Group is one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola in China, with the exclusive distribution rights of Coca-Cola products in seven provinces including Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, covering a population of 4 1 10,000.

Unlike many companies in China who get rich quickly by listing, most of Swire's assets are not listed. They are relatively very conservative. In the 1990s, the real estate industry in China mainland gradually warmed up, and Hong Kong real estate developers such as Henderson Land, Hang Lung, New World and Sun Hung Kai came to invest in the mainland one after another, but Swire Property moved slowly. It took 10 years to start the Taikooli project in Beijing and Chengdu.

When Intime Department Store, Wanda and other well-known domestic commercial real estate companies announced their entry into e-commerce, Swire Real Estate still refused to follow up. Facts have proved that it is a very correct decision for them to stick to their most familiar fields.

There is an old saying in China that "three generations are not rich". Now the Huaiya Shi family has passed down to the sixth generation, and they continue the inheritance of wealth.

This family came to China in 153, and now it has been rich for six generations, with an annual income of tens of billions. Although extremely rich, the Huaiya Shi family is very low-key, and even many people don't know that there is a billion-dollar asset company like Swire. The Huaiya Shi family is a real invisible rich family.