What is Li's Field/ Li's Force Field in Hong Kong
I saw numbers of comment in my typhoon post who comment on the Li's Field. Which is a very local joke among HongKongese. But I think most of the people from other country don't know what it means. And let me do some explaination for you guys.
The "Li" in Li's Field refers to local business tycoon Li Ka Shing. I think we could even say that he own Hong Kong in economy.
The basis of Li's Field rests on the way Hong Kong's government is organized. The city's Commerce and Economic Development Bureau oversees the Hong Kong Observatory,[1]and that has led to speculations the Observatory bases its issuance of tropical cyclone warning signals on economic reasoning, instead of scientific reasoning.
One example is in 2006, Typhoon Prapiroon brought 200km/h wind to Hong Kong, overturned containers, uprooted trees, and caused many flight delays at the airport, but the Observatory did not issue Signal Number 8, remaining at the lower level Signal Number 3.
And HongKongese make joke on that the government is ordered by Mr. Li Ka Shing not to issue it to avoid the people stop working and make economic lost.
Internet user even photoshoped a lot of picture to feature such joke. Here come some example:
One more in depth meaning for Li's Field is HongKongese actually ridicule themselves they have to keep working and working until they die no matter what disaster happened.
Hahahaha that brings back alot memory when we are so excited that typhoon will come so that we are getting holiday but only find out later that the wind is bounced back by li shi field. I am sure you can tell how disappointed i will look in my face. But i guess every hker will share same memory.
i hope no.8 is coming
Energy charge …！
meep
哈原來是這樣的典故
lol, yes, here is Hong Kong, here is interesting...but also ridiculous..
Follow me and get more interesting news XD
We all know that this force field is going to prove itself again in a few hours. To what we experienced so far, it's reliability is much much higher than our government. This is another good example of Li's investment in hi-tech industry.
Alpha-GO seems to be another one, but not yet come close :D
Is Li related to Alien somehow?
@victorier hahaha :D I never knew this Li's field, thanks alot! Are there any other special Hong Kong facts? Please more
Li Ka Shing is controlling much of Hong Kong!