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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 and banking. Born 1918 Zhejiang
Province, China.
Educated Shanghai and then went into banking.
Took refuge in Hong Kong in 1949 and entered import/export business. Purchased first ship in
1955 and formed World Wide shipping group,
world's largest independent.
now the
A director of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
Chairman of
Intertanko.
Chairman of Wheelock
Marden
Group.
Member of Basic Law Drafting
Committee.
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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