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PERSONALITY NOTES
SIR YUE-KONG PAO CBE LLD JP
Chairman and Chief Executive of Hong Kong his interests are in property, finance, banking and civil aviation. Born 1918 Zhejiang Province, China.
the World Wide Shipping Group.
In
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.
Chairman of Intertanko. Chairman
of Basic Law Drafting Committee.
of Wheelock Marden Group.
Member
Major shareholder in Dragonair and Director of CPA.
Has a joint venture with the Chinese in ship-building and shipping.
Sir YK Pao visits Peking regularly. He has excellent connections
On each to Chinese leaders. and enjoys considerable access
December 1984 and May
and May 1985
last
three visits May and called on Deng Xiaoping.
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of his
he has
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