TNAG-1433-FCO40-1916-Leading-personalities-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 77

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CONFIDENTIAL

PERSONALITY NOTE

SIR YUE-KONG PAO CBE LLD JP

Enter and pa on

LPR file

Born 1918 Zhejiang Province, China. Widower.

In

Chairman and Chief Executive of the Worldwide Shipping Group. Hong Kong his interests are in property, finance, banking and public

transport.

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 Worldwide Shipping Group.

Fleet halved in last five

years as company have disposed of

to retain core of profitable ships SO

to be able to capitalise quickly on any future upturn in shipping

market.

inefficient tonnage. Aim is

as

A director of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Chief Executive of Dragonair Ltd. 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 including Deng

Xiaoping.

personaliky note on

available

NB

An indarrified Si yu Pao

is

also

HKK OI Oli

VED IN REGISTRY

12 MAR 1986

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