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PERSONALITY NOTE
SIR YUE-KONG PAO CBE LLD JP
Chairman and Chief Executive of the World Wide Shipping
Group. In Hong Kong his interests are in property, finance, banking and civil aviation. Born 1918 Zhejiang Province,
China.
Educated Shanghai and then went into banking.
business.
Took refuge in Hong Kong in 1949 and entered import/export
Purchased first ship in 1955 and formed
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 G
Member of Basic Law Drafting Committee.
Major shareholder in Dragonair.
Has a joint venture with the Chinese in ship-building and
shipping.
access to Chinese
Sir Y K Pao visits Peking regularly. He has excellent
connections and enjoys considerable
leaders. On each of his last two visits
April 1986 - he has called on Deng Xiaoping.
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November 1985 and
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