TRAILBLAZER
LI KA-SHING :
HONG KONG ' S RICHEST MAN BETS ON FINTECH
72
years as a business founder
Job Title : Senior Advisor Company : CK Hutchison
$ 3bn +
USD donated towards philanthropic causes
Sir Li Ka-shing KBE is a Hong Kong business magnate , investor and philanthropist . He was born in Chaozhou , of the Guangdong province in China , on October 27th 1928 , to a low-income family of three children .
Li is of Teochew descendants , occasionally referred to as " guest people " in the early days of his life . His family fled to Hong Kong as refugees during the Sino- Japanese War in 1940 because it was safer and offered more employment as a British colony .
Three years later , he lost his father and had no other choice but to leave school ahead of time to support his mother and younger siblings . He found a job in a plastics trading company , wherein he laboured for 16 hours per day .
18 January 2022