CONFIDENTIAL
PERSONALITY NOTES
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, banking and civil aviation. 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, now the world's largest independent.
A director of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Chaimman of Intertanko. Chairman of Wheelock Marden Group.
of Basic Law Drafting Committee.
Member
Chairman and Major shareholder in Dragonair and Director of CPA.
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.
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and May
last three visits
called on Deng Xiaoping.
December
1984 and May 1985
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On each of his
he has
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