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Dr. Tsui Tsin-tong GBS JP (1941 – 2 April 2010) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur, philanthropist and an

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. He was also a Hong Kong member of the Standing Committee of the

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. Tsui was honorary chairman of the Hong Kong-listed company CNT Group, which is engaged in manufacturing and sale of paint products, iron and steel, and

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Biography

Born in

Ji'an Ji'an () is a prefecture-level city situated in the central region of Jiangxi province of the People's Republic of China while bordering Hunan province to the west. It has an area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,469,176, of ...

, Jiangxi in 1941 as a native of

Yixing Yixing () is a county-level city administrated under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-excla ...

, Jiangsu, he migrated to Hong Kong with his family at the age of nine. His father died when he was 13. He worked as a

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and a

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before starting small businesses including restaurants and

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companies. He made his fortune through

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and

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in the 1970s. His business empire boomed as the properties he bought in the early 1980s surged in value. He later acquired the Chinese paints factories established in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Citybus, London Citybus and expanded the family-owned North Sea Group. In 1992, he became a member of the 1st Group of

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and made contribution for the Hong Kong transition. In 2001, he was awarded the

Gold Bauhinia Star The Gold Bauhinia Star (, GBS) is the highest Bauhinia Star rank in the honours system of Hong Kong, created in 1997 to replace the British honours system of the Order of the British Empire after the transfer of sovereignty to People's Republic of ...

for his contribution to maintaining the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong. In 1995 Tsui gifted a

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of a

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to the

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. In March 2010, Tsui suddenly suffered a stroke when he attended the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. In April 2010, he died in Beijing at the age of 69.

References

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