The meaning of Run Run Shaw Building is: a building named Run Run Shaw Building, which was constructed with donations from Mr. Run Run Shaw, the king of Hong Kong movies and founder of Shaw Studios.
Mr. Run Run Shaw donated 6,013 projects, more than 80% of which were educational projects. More than a thousand schools have been benefited. Teaching buildings, libraries, science and technology museums and other cultural, artistic and medical institutions named after Mr. Run Run Shaw are located in many parts of China.
In January 2014, netizen Xu Wenguang posted a picture on Weibo showing that an online map search for Shaw buildings yielded nearly 30,000 results, densely packed almost all over China.
The buildings, libraries, science and technology centers and other cultural, artistic and medical facilities named after the word "Run Run Shaw" are scattered across the country. In the past few years, Shaw has also made many personal visits to the north and south of the Yangtze River, inside and outside the Great Wall, to inspect the donation programs in spite of his old age. In addition, Run Run Shaw has made huge donations in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Biography of Run Run Shaw
Shaw (November 19, 1907 - January 7, 2014), formerly known as Shao Renleng, was born in Shanghai, and was originally from Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang. A Chinese entertainment tycoon, philanthropist, producer, honorary chairman of Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), and founder of Shaw Brothers Film Company.
He was the sixth of eight siblings in the Shaw family, and was known as "Shao Lao Liu" in the old Shanghai era, and "Uncle Liu" after he came to Hong Kong. Shaw founded Shaw Brothers Films in Hong Kong in 1958, which has produced more than 1,000 Chinese-language movies, and his Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), commonly known as TVB, dominates Hong Kong's television industry.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Run Run Shaw Building for the above