Cheng yu tung biography of albert einstein

Hong Kong businessman

In this Chinese name, the family name is Cheng.

Cheng Yu-tungGBM (Chinese: 鄭裕彤; 8 August – 29 September ) was a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive property investment, development and service businesses, hotels, infrastructure, jewellery retailing and transportation interests in Hong Kong, Macau, United States, Australia and other areas.

He was considered to be Hong Kong's third richest man at the time of his death.^[1]

Early life

Cheng was born in rural Shunde District in Guangdong, the son of a tailor, and fled to Macau in , ahead of the advancing Japanese occupation force.

The goldsmith owner of the Chow Tai Fook store there took him on as an apprentice and he eventually married the boss's daughter. They moved to Hong Kong in and opened the company's first store there.^[2]

Business career

He founded and owned Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, a conglomerate which operates the Sheraton Marina hotel and controls