Rich beyond his dreams but blind to value of money
- By Huang Xiangyang
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E-mail China Daily, June 1, 2015
Wang Sicong defines success as "being able to do as I damnwell please". Obviously, he has achieved that.
As the only son of China's richest man - Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd - the younger Wang leads an ostentatious life that is the envy of even other fuerdai (wealthy second-generation Chinese).
His motto is "nobody is richer than me". Well, that's obvious. In January, he booked an entire beach and a five-star hotel in the resort city of Sanya in Hainan province to celebrate his 27th birthday. Each guest got an iPad, and the party was entertained by South Korean girl group T-ara.
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Wang Sicong, the son of China's richest man Wang Jianlin, shows off photos of his dog wearing two Apple Watches on the Weibo account especially opened for the dog. The dog's page has over 660,000 followers. The latest tweet reads, "I got new watches! I should wear four since I have four long legs, but that would be too 'tuhao' (new money) of me, so finally I decided to wear two watches -- actually, two is the smallest number that could match my social status! And, by the way, do you have one?" The photos have attracted thousands of comments from netizens. One even claimed, "My life is worse than his dog's." [Weibo.com] |
Dubbed the nation's most eligible bachelor by his 10 million-plus micro blog followers, the young Wang once said his only requirement for a girlfriend was big breasts. Maybe that was just a sign of hormonal overdrive.
But then there was the image he posted on his micro blog that showed him on top of his husky in bed, with the caption "I am f***ing a dog".
Stunts like that just remind people of his vulgarity and penchant for debauchery. He later said it was just a joke and called his critics "morons", displaying the brazen arrogance of someone born with so much money that ethics and morals no longer apply.
All this has taken place in full view of his fabulously wealthy father, who has a net worth of around $40 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In Chinese culture, where the belief persists that "to feed without teaching is a father's failing", it is natural for the public to expect Wang Jianlin to get a little tougher with his son.
But the father seems to have exonerated the playboy by putting all blame on his son's Western education and youth.
"He went overseas to study in first grade and he has a Western way of thinking," said the senior Wang in a recent interview.
I believe that Wang Jianlin is an upright man who did not intend to endorse his son's misbehavior. But to hear words reflecting such a level of misunderstanding of the West from China's most successful businessman is still shocking, given that his ambition is to turn Dalian Wanda into an international behemoth that meets the highest Western business standards.
For Wang Jianlin, some things about the West should be obvious.
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