Sir Quo-wei Lee (; 5 August 1918 – 10 August 2013), with family roots in

Kaiping Kaiping (), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, is a county-level city in Guangdong provinces of China, Province, China. It is located ín the western section of the Pearl River Delt ...

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, China, was a prominent Hong Kong businessman who served as Chairman of

Hang Seng Bank Hang Seng Bank Limited () is a Hong Kong-based banking and financial services company with headquarters in Central, Hong Kong. It is one of Hong Kong's leading public companies in terms of market capitalisation and is part of the HSBC Group, ...

and

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. Lee was awarded Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) in 2006. He was one of the four co-founders of the

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, which promotes the development of science and technology in China. Lee was created

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in 1977, and made a

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in 1988. In the same year, he was also named as the head of the

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. He was awarded a

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in 1997. He died 10 August 2013 at a

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in Hong Kong.

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