Mr. Li Ka-shing is the Chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limitedand Hutchison Whampoa Limited. Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited is the flagship of the Cheung Kong Group, which has business operations in 54 countries around the world and employs more than about 240,000 staff. In Hong Kong alone, the Cheung Kong Group includes nine listed companies with a combined market capitalization of approximately HK$650 billion / US$83.3 billion (28 Feb 2010). Hutchison Whampoa Limited is a Fortune Global 500 company.
After his birth in 1928 in Chiu Chow, a coastal city in the southeastern part of China, Mr. Li and his family fled to Hong Kong to avoid the perils of war when he was 12. Shortly thereafter, his father suffered from tuberculosis and passed away in Hong Kong. Shouldering the responsibility of the family, Mr. Li left school before age 15 and found a job in a plastics trading company, where he labored 16 hours a day.
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