胡應湘

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胡應湘1935年生於香港，祖籍廣東花縣，合和實業創辦人。他童年在灣仔長大，先後就讀敦梅學校及香港華仁書院，1958年在美國普林斯頓大學取得土木工程學士學位，係極少數以工程師思維經營地產同基建的香港商人。1970年代末，他收購灣仔南部舊樓重建，先後發展合和中心及胡忠大廈，其中六十六層的合和中心一度係全港最高建築，帶動整個灣仔南舊區轉型，而構思中的Mega Tower Hotel則因規模爭議拖延十多年。改革開放後他率先北上投資，1984年參與發展廣州中國大酒店，1987年建成沙角B電廠，1994年建成珠江三角洲首條高速公路廣深高速公路。他早於八十年代已倡議興建伶仃洋跨海大橋，把香港同珠三角連成一體，這個構想最終演化成2018年通車的港珠澳大橋。1997年他獲英女皇頒授聖米迦勒及聖喬治爵級司令勳章，2004年獲香港特區金紫荊星章，並曾任香港城市大學校董會主席。

English

Sir Gordon Wu, born in Hong Kong in 1935 to a family from Huaxian in Guangdong, is the founder of Hopewell Holdings and one of the few Hong Kong businessmen to run property and infrastructure as an engineer. He grew up in Wan Chai and was educated at Dunmei School and Wah Yan College before graduating in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1958. From the late 1970s he bought up old blocks in southern Wan Chai for redevelopment, producing Hopewell Centre — 66 storeys and for a time Hong Kong's tallest building — and Wu Chung House, transforming the district; a third scheme, the Mega Tower Hotel, was delayed for more than a decade by objections over its scale. After reform and opening he was an early investor on the mainland, helping develop the China Hotel in Guangzhou (1984), completing the Shajiao B power station (1987) and the Guangzhou–Shenzhen Expressway (1994), the first expressway in the Pearl River Delta. From the 1980s he championed a cross-sea bridge at Lingdingyang to bind Hong Kong to the delta — a vision realised in the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, opened in 2018. He was appointed KCMG in 1997, received the Gold Bauhinia Star in 2004, and has chaired the council of City University of Hong Kong.