PERSONALITY NOTE
SIR YUE-KONG PAO CBE LLD JP
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Chairman and Chief Executive of the World Wide Shipping Group. Hong Kong his interests are in property, finance and banking. 1918 Zhejiang Province, China.
Educated Shanghai and then went
then went into banking.
In
Born
Took refuge in Hong Kong in 1949 and entered import/export business. Purchased first ship in 1955 and formed World Wide shipping Group, now the world's largest independent.
A director of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Chairman of Intertanko. Chairman of Wheelock Marden Group.
Has a joint venture with the Chinese in ship-building and shipping.
Sir Y K Pao visits Peking regularly. He has excellent connections
and enjoys considerable access to Chinese leaders. On each of his
last three visits May and December 1984 and May 1985 he has called on Deng Xiaoping.
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