In the history of our party, public opinion and propaganda have always been of paramount importance.
Similarly, we are able to start a prairie fire with just a single spark.
It is because, in the beginning when things were tough and difficult, we stuck to our original aspirations and stood firmly on the side of the broad masses of workers and peasants.
Moreover, we should use powerful propaganda methods and offensives to make our communist ideas, liberate all mankind, and establish a new China deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Before liberation, even the hard-working peasants who could not read a single word knew the good of our Party and Chairman Mao.
It can be said that public opinion and propaganda are powerful aids in our victory.
It’s a pity that after the founding of New China, we gradually lost our advantage in the “battlefield of public opinion” where we were so good at.
Especially when facing malicious smears from foreign media, it is surprisingly difficult for us to launch effective counterattacks and clarifications.
This has led to the fact that the image of our country, party and people is very poor, backward and feudal in the perception of the people in most countries in the world.
In his previous life, Lin Huowang hated this very much.
From the first time he went abroad to the United States, he was looked down upon and discriminated against. Then he went to Japan, South Korea, the Middle East, and even some backward Latin American countries and India. They all thought that China was a very backward, "primitive" or "feudal" country, and that the people were living in dire straits and were not getting enough food.
The situation is the same in Hong Kong Island. The newspapers, media and mouthpieces controlled by British capital continue to amplify and exaggerate some of the negative news about mainland China, denying all the good aspects of the mainland.
As a result, everyone from entrepreneurs to ordinary citizens in Hong Kong Island are terrified of and try to avoid the mainland.
Even after the reform and opening up, many businessmen or employees in Hong Kong would wave their hands when they heard that they were asked to go to the mainland to invest and work, and they were unwilling to do so even if they were offered higher profits and wages.
From this point of view, these left-wing newspapers and film companies we set up in Hong Kong Island have indeed not done their job in public opinion propaganda.
Of course, this does not mean that they are deliberately derelict in their duties, but in the field of public opinion and propaganda in Hong Kong Island, the mainland official media's methods simply do not work, and the people of Hong Kong Island will not buy into them at all.
We need to adapt to the trends in Hong Kong, grasp the information that the people of Hong Kong are most concerned about, and then output some ideology and culture in a subtle way, so as to reverse and change the image of the mainland that was previously demonized by the people of Hong Kong.
This was the first move made by Lin Huowang, initiated by Mr. Liao, who summoned the leaders of these left-wing newspapers to improve the tone and direction of the newspapers' reporting according to Lin Huowang's plan.
Every left-wing newspaper, including Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, Commercial Daily, etc., released news that was enough to shock people.
The fierceness of the language, the sharpness of the writing style, and the tricky angles were all unprecedented in left-wing newspapers.
What an effect!
it goes without saying!
Sales volume represents everything!
Lin Huowang was sitting in a moving Volvo car, and outside the window was the bustling morning rush hour on Hong Kong Island.
The figure of the newspaper boy was weaving in and out of the traffic. He could see from afar that passers-by were scrambling to buy the eye-catching headlines of left-wing newspapers such as Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po and Hong Kong Commercial Daily.
Without deliberate observation, the rush to buy is itself the silent but most powerful proof that the sales of left-wing newspapers are surging at a record rate.
This surge in sales is more than just a business figure.
It also represents the unprecedented influence and penetration of left-wing newspapers.
Those elites and intellectuals who once only subscribed to right-wing or neutral newspapers are now stopping at newsstands, attracted by the "shocking" headlines and "eye-popping" content in left-wing newspapers.
The Ta Kung Pao’s “direct report” on the bloody experiences of female workers in the North Point garment factory; the Wen Wei Po’s first in-depth exploration of the mysterious “Kowloon Walled City” “forbidden area”; the Hong Kong Commercial Daily’s bold revelation of the accusation that “HSBC’s lending favors the consortium”…
All of them pierced the seemingly calm surface of Hong Kong Island and revealed the deep-seated suffering and injustice. These were the immediate results achieved in accordance with the reform direction discussed by him and initiated and promoted by Mr. Liao.
There was no need for newsboys or vendors to shout out their support; just the shocking headlines in the major left-wing newspapers at the newsstands were enough to make people unable to resist taking money out of their pockets.
“Go to Causeway Bay and Central.”
Lin Huowang instructed the driver that he wanted to observe the reactions of people from different classes more closely.
"Okay, Mr. Kobayashi. But it's rush hour, so there might be a lot of traffic..."
The driver nodded, started the car, and drove quickly towards Causeway Bay.
Lin Huowang half opened the car window and looked at the minibuses passing by, most of which were owned by the Kowloon Motor Bus Company.
There are also quite a few taxis, and then there are private cars, most of which are brands such as Mazda and Toyota. There are not many luxury brand private cars.
At this time, the quality of life of the lower classes in Hong Kong Island had improved significantly thanks to the hard work of the Governor Murray MacLehose.
However, it was the Governor of Hong Kong Murray MacLehose who personally released the vicious "real estate" demon from its cage.
Since Li Ka-shing won the bid for the property on the subway this year, the "real estate era" of Hong Kong Island has begun. In the next few decades, Hong Kong Island will almost only have "real estate" as its core pillar industry.
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