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John Lam -The Dreamers |
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The Dreamers
A Story of New York,
John Lam and Virgin Hotel
By Dr. Jeannie Yi
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The most famous city
in the world is undoubtedly New York. In Central Park in
Manhattan, plants and birds coexist harmoniously with
humans, making it a happy living place. Surrounding the
park, in thousands of buildings, reside world-renowned
celebrities, Hollywood stars, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,
and new wealthy elites from China.
Despite their different languages and skin colors, they
share their space politely and graciously. Next to Central
Park is a mile-long avenue known as “Museum Mile,” home to
countless genuine artifacts from the Metropolitan to the
Guggenheim, including treasures looted from China by the
Eight-Nation Alliance.
New York boasts many famous avenues and streets.
World-famous brand stores like LV, Chanel, and Estée Lauder
are neighbors on Fifth Avenue, and many others extending to
the 42nd Street and intersecting with Broadway, the
birthplace of stunning musicals and home to shows such as
The Lion King, Aladdin, Cats, Marry Poppins and many more.
Time Square is called the crossroads of the world, bustling
24/7 with tourists capturing every moment on their iPhones.
At this global crossroads stands the giant Nasdaq screen,
showcasing ticker symbols of at least 350 Chinese listed
companies, telling the world about their dreams from China.
Broadway is where dreams take place. The buildings around
Broadway have been telling many dreams, one of which is a
Chinese brand - The Haier Group. For the past 20 years, the
story has continued.
In the early 1980s, at the start of China's reform and
opening-up, Haier Group, which imported a German technology
from a German company called Liebour Haier. The German
company insisted that the backward poor Chinese electronics
in Qingdao must carry their names or at least one word/
Liebour or Haier. The Chinese company chose the later for
the namesake of an ocean - “hai er ” sounds in Chinese like
ocean. The company soon grew into a giant conglomerate and
became China’s top brand manufacturing high quality
refrigerators.
In 2002, Haier took a bold step and as the first Chinese
company going global and ventured into the US. They
established its presence at 1356 Broadway - The Haier
Building. Despite various challenges, including the
fluctuating US-China relations, Haier Group has remained
steadfast. People need to eat, and food needs to stay fresh,
making a good refrigerator is essential.
The era of eating spoiled food and drinking dirty water
should never return. In the upcoming era of AI robots
coexisting with humans, having a comfortable, jointly
created US-China smart kitchen at home and enjoying fresh,
varied, healthy meals from an open kitchen is something to
look forward to, isn’t it?
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Walking a few blocks
down Broadway brings you to 1227 Broadway. There stands the
Virgin Hotel, built by John Lam in collaboration with
Richard Branson, chairman of Rolling Stone Entertainment
Magazine and one of the world's three private spaceship
manufacturers alongside Elon Musk and Jeffery Bezos. Yes,
the renowned Virgin Hotel is located at 1227 Broadway, New
York, NY 10001 and Branson's partner is a Chinese individual
on New York soil, you didn’t read it wrong or hear it wrong.
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The name Virgin
signifies unexplored territory, symbolizing bold exploration
and adventure. Even after Branson's Virgin spacecraft
crashed into eight pieces while returning from the moon, he
stood smiling beside it, undeterred in his space suit.
Mortality is inevitable, and business innovation might fail,
but for whom do we live and die? |
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Virgin Airlines,
Virgin Cruise, Virgin Hotel – Branson designed these for the
future generation capable of making history. Without these
visionary and skilled individuals, we wouldn’t be enjoying
the benefits of AI today from the comfort of our homes.
Branson aims to create a hotel where these elite genius can
quietly and undisturbed explore the future world, the
mysteries of the universe, and extraterrestrial life. After
their tireless efforts for our comfort, they need a place to
rest in a modern and an innovative hotel for the future.
This hotel must be neighbors with companies like Open AI,
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and IBM.
The remarkable achievements from these technology companies
and research institutes, from laboratories to markets, are
not accomplished overnight. Such extraordinary technological
projects and engineering studies, benefiting humanity,
require an exceptional group of young talents. Without them,
today’s booming US stock market might lose its vitality and
competitiveness, wouldn’t it?
Branson, flying his Virgin plane (not spacecraft) over New
York for ten years, sought a partner to create a
future-leading, world-class hotel. Amidst New York's lush
trees and blooming flowers, he found his partner in John Lam
( or Lin Jianzhong in Chinese), who came from Hong Kong and
mainland China 60 years ago. Over 50 years, Lam has become
the hotel king of Manhattan. His Lam Group is renowned
throughout New York and the Chinese community worldwide. |
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Who is John Lam? How
did he achieve his success? Does he share any Chinese genes
with the people who inhabit in the Haier Building? If Haier
refrigerators tell the story of China’s 1 billion people
rising from poverty, what story does Lam Group want to tell?
If the century-old trees in Central Park dream of seeing the
future world, perhaps a city’s dream is to become that one -
a future city itself.
The people of New York might dream of the same dream like
John Lam, making their city even more beautiful and
attractive. Every green leaf, every sidewalk brick, every
steel plate, and every piece of spacious glass walls and
windows tell the same story of dream catchers - the iron
will and gentle romance combine into one , moment by moment,
piece by piece. |
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John Lam accepted
the challenge. The result was the addition of one of New
York's most remarkable landmarks- The Virgin Hotel. 2024:
What Challenges Does Mr John Lam Still Have in Store? The
World is waiting.
Travel + Leisure Readers' 15 Favorite Hotels in New York
City of 2024：
https://www.travelandleisure.com/wba-2024-hotels-new-york-city-8665765
Virgin Hotels New
York City Celebrates Official Opening with Sir Richard
Branson, a Broadway Performance and a Lively Party：
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3830679
-1&h=962551857&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.multivu.com%2Fplayers%2FEnglish%2F9039251-virgin-hotels-new-york-city-opening%2F&a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.multivu.com%2Fplayers%2FEnglish%2F9039251-virgin-hotels-new-york-city-opening%2F
The Lam
Group
https://lamgroupnyc.com/zh-hans/
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