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Chairman, Cheung Kong Holdings; chairman, Hutchison Whampoa

Nationality: Chinese.

Born: June 13, 1928, in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.

Family: Son of Li Yunjing (primary school head); married Amy Li Ching Yuiet-ming (founding director of Cheung Kong Holdings; deceased 1990); children: two.

Career: 1944–1949, plastic-goods salesman; Cheung Kong Industries, 1950–1971, chairman; Cheung Kong Holdings, 1971–, chairman; Hutchinson Whampoa, 1979–, chairman.

Awards: Grand Officer of the Order Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama, 1982;...