Vincent Lo Hong-shui,
GBM,
GBS,
JP (; born 18 April 1948) is the chairman of Hong Kong-based Shui On Group, a building-materials and construction firm. He graduated from the
University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1969. Upon returning to Hong Kong, started business with the sum of HK$100,000 (US$16,700) borrowed from his father, Hong Kong property tycoon
Lo Ying-shek
Lo Ying-shek (1913 – 2006) was a Hong Kong real estate businessman who co-founded Great Eagle Holdings in 1963 with his wife, Lo To Lee Kwan (羅杜莉君).
Biography
Lo was born in Chaozhou, China in 1913 and accompanied his father to Thailan ...
.
In 1984, Lo began investing in Shanghai and built a hotel in partnership with the Shanghainese
Communist Youth League. The
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth ...
caused occupancy to plunge, and the league could not repay its construction loan. Lo assisted the league in dealing with the loan:
Han Zheng was the Youth League secretary at the time, and is now mayor of
Shanghai.
In association with
Xu Kuangdi, a former Shanghai mayor, Han assisted Lo in gaining the right to develop a piece of land surrounding the hall where the
Chinese Communist Party held its first meeting, now known as
Xintiandi. The $170 million property development project is a 20,000 square meter complex of restaurants, bars and shops and is a prime entertainment spot in Shanghai.
In 1995, he bought his first cement plant in
Chongqing
Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...
, which has enabled the Shui On Group to become one of China's top three cement companies. Under Lo's direction, the Shui On Group is carrying out property development projects in other Chinese cities, such as
Wuhan,
Dalian
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...
,
Foshan
Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ...
and
Hangzhou, as well as Chongqing.
He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.
Family
Vincent Lo married his ex-wife Jean Ho (何晶潔) in 1985, they had 2 children together.
Vincent Lo and his current wife
Loletta Chu
Loletta Chu (born 7 September 1958 in Mandalay, Myanmar) is a Chinese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of the 1977 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.
Early life
Chu was born in Mandalay, Myanmar, in 1958 into an ethnic Chine ...
married at 27 November 2008.
References
External links
Shui On GroupCNN Interview of Vincent Lo
(transcript), 9 April 2007
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1948 births
Living people
Hong Kong billionaires
Hong Kong chief executives
Hong Kong real estate businesspeople
University of New South Wales alumni
Recipients of the Gold Bauhinia Star
Recipients of the Grand Bauhinia Medal
Progressive Hong Kong Society politicians
Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong politicians
Members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee members
Hong Kong Affairs Advisors
Members of the Selection Committee of Hong Kong
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 1998–2000
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2000–2005
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017