Gong Hongjia (; born 1965), or known as his official Hong Kong transliteration Kung Hung Ka, is a Chinese billionaire businessman (with Hong Kong permanent resident status), vice-chairman and the second largest shareholder in

Hikvision Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Hikvision, is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment for civilian and military purposes, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Due to it ...

, a security equipment supplier. He was ranked 15 in the ''

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'' 2017 China Rich List, as well as 144th in 2021 ''Forbes'' billionaires list in May 2021, with a net worth of US$14.4 billion at that time.

Early life

Gong was born in

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in 1965. He was educated at

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

, graduating with a degree in computer science.

Career

Gong became a trader of electronic goods in Southern China (

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

and

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

) after his graduation. He emigrated to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

in 1992, 5 years before the handover of the colony to China. He formerly owned radio manufacturer

Tecsun Tecsun Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong. It designs and manufactures radios, from simple handheld AM/ FM receivers to more sophisticated digital units with shortwave, longwave, airband, ...

(now known as Tecsun Science & Technology) and

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company Watchdata. In 2001, he co-invested in

for 49% stake. In 2017, after Hikvision became a listed company, he sold part of the shares he owned, causing his fortune to reach $13billion, up from 5.4billion the previous year, with his rise in rank reflected in the . Gong also owned Wealth Strategy Holding, which in turn partly owned another listed company Yichang HEC Changjiang Pharmaceutical in 2015. Gong was also actively invested in the

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market of Hong Kong.

Personal life

He is married with two children and lives in Hong Kong.

References

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