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PERSONALITY NOTE
CONFIDENTIAL
SIR YUE-KONG PAO, KBE
Chairman and Chief
Born 1918, Zhejiang Province China.
Executive of the World Wide Shipping Group. Educated in
Shanghai. Chairman of Intertanko.
Chairman of Wheelock
Marden Group. A Vice Chairman of the Basic Law Drafting
Committee. A Director of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
Took refuge in Hong Kong in 1949
1949 and entered
business.
import/export
independent.
finance and
Chinese in
Purchased first ship in 1955 and formed World
Wide shipping group, now the world's largest In Hong Kong his interests including property,
banking.
joint venture with the
ship-building and shipping.
Sir
Has
a
Pao visits Peking
Peking regularly. He has
excellent
Y K
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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CONFIDENTIAL