Cui Lijie (; born c. 1959) is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman, Hong Kong citizen, and majority owner of
Imperial Pacific
Imperial Pacific International Holdings Limited ( is a Chinese investment holding company. It was founded with headquarters in Hong Kong and originally named First Natural Foods Holdings until it was renamed in May 2014. It is majority owned by ...
.
Background
Originally from
Harbin
Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...
,
Heilongjiang
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, China, she is a former
barefoot doctor
Barefoot doctors () were healthcare providers who underwent basic medical training and worked in rural villages in China. They included farmers, folk healers, rural healthcare providers, and recent middle or secondary school graduates who receiv ...
who worked in the countryside.
In 1988, she invested in an auto parts and equipment factory serving a military school in Harbin.
She later invested in pawnshop lending and real estate.
Career
She and her son Ji Xiaobo () became involved in the
Macau
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