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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA IR E S

HONG KONG * Lee Man Tat Lawrence Ho 
$2.5 BIL #965 CASINOS
NEWSMAKER: Lee, 88, has
controlled 100% of Lee Kum Vincent Lo 
$2.5 BIL #965 REAL ESTATE
WEALTH TOP SECTORS GDP: $341.9 BIL Kee Group, the world’s larg-
ORIGIN POPULATION: 7 MIL est oyster-sauce maker, since he Or Wai Sheun 
28 bought out his brother in the $2.5 BIL #965 REAL ESTATE
BILLIONAIRES: 68*

REAL ESTATE 1980s. The 130-year-old LKK Vivien Chen 
9 TOTAL NET WORTH: also pro duces one of the most $2.4 BIL #1020 REAL ESTATE
35% MANUFACTURING $336.1 BIL
65% (+$64 BIL VS. 2017)* popular soy sauces. In August Chu Lam Yiu 
6 $2.4 BIL #1020 FLAVORINGS
the company’s property arm
FASHION & RETAIL
bought a famous London sky- Michael Ying 
5
INHERITED & GROWING GAMBLING scraper, nicknamed the Walkie- $2.4 BIL #1020 RETAIL
INHERITED Talkie, for almost $1.7 billion.
SELF-MADE 4 Martin Lau 
DIVERSIFIED $2.3 BIL #1070 E-COMMERCE
Tang Yiu 
$2.3 BIL #1070 FASHION RETAIL
Wong Man Li 
$2.3 BIL #1070 FURNITURE
EXPATRIATES 11 Chan Tan Ching-fen 
$2.2 BIL #1103 REAL ESTATE
Tung Chee Hwa 
$2.2 BIL #1103 SHIPPING
Vivien Chen
Xiong Xuqiang & family 
$2.2 BIL #1103 REAL ESTATE
FAMILY FEUD: A court ruling in July put
an end to a lengthy lawsuit be- Tang Shing-bor 
tween Chen and her mother, Yang $2.1 BIL #1157 REAL ESTATE
Foo-oi, over the distribution of her Huang Yi 
HONG KONG late father Chen Din Hwa’s wealth. $2 BIL #1215 AUTO DISTRIBUTION
56 It denied her permission to appeal Robin Zeng ★
an earlier order that she pay her $1.9 BIL #1284 BATTERIES
HONG KONG SCIENCE PARK mother more than $1 billion. Chen Thomas Lau 
had taken the reins of her family’s $1.6 BIL #1477
property developer Nan Fung Group in DEPARTMENT STORES
2009 after her father was declared men- Allan Wong 
tally incapacitated. She stepped down in $1.6 BIL #1477 ELECTRONICS
2016 and is now honorary chairman.
Wu Jianshu 
$1.6 BIL #1477 AUTO PARTS
LAN KWAI FONG Albert Yeung 
$1.6 BIL #1477 REAL ESTATE,
DEEP WATER BAY RETAIL
Tang Hsiang-chien 
REPULSE BAY
$1.5 BIL #1561 TEXTILES,
ELECTRONICS
Henry Cheng ★
$1.4 BIL #1650 REAL ESTATE
William Fung 
$1.4 BIL #1650 SOURCING
MACAU Hoi Kin Hong 
1
$1.4 BIL #1650 REAL ESTATE
Li Ka-shing  Michael Kadoorie  Henry Cheng Samuel Tak Lee  Lin Tianfu 
$1.3 BIL #1756 FOOTWEAR,
$34.9 BIL #23 DIVERSIFIED $7.3 BIL #211 HOTELS, ENERGY $4.1 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE APPAREL
NEWCOMER: His father, Cheng
Lee Shau Kee  Pollyanna Chu  Li Wa  Gordon Wu 
$30.3 BIL #24 REAL ESTATE $7 BIL #228 FINANCIAL SERVICES Yu-tung, was Hong Kong’s $3.8 BIL #588 REAL ESTATE $1.3 BIL #1756 REAL ESTATE
third-richest person in 2016,
Lui Che Woo  Francis Choi  the year he died. Yu-tung ap- Angela Leong  Yu Peidi 
$20.1 BIL #50 CASINOS $6.4 BIL #265 REAL ESTATE $3.7 BIL #606 CASINOS
parently put most of his wealth $1.3 BIL #1756 REAL ESTATE
Joseph Lau  Yeung Kin-man  in a family trust for future gen- Edwin Leong  King Pak Fu 
$16.7 BIL #75 REAL ESTATE $5.6 BIL #321 ELECTRONICS $3.5 BIL #652 REAL ESTATE
erations. Henry, 71, makes $1.2 BIL #1867 REAL ESTATE
Thomas & Raymond Kwok  Pan Sutong  his debut thanks to the value Rita Tong Liu  Lo Ka Shui 
$16.5 BIL #77 REAL ESTATE $5.5 BIL #334 REAL ESTATE, of Knight Dragon, the real es- $3.4 BIL #679 REAL ESTATE $1.2 BIL #1867 REAL ESTATE
FINANCE
Peter Woo  tate developer that he owns and Li Sze Lim  Lo Siu-tong 
$12.2 BIL #122 REAL ESTATE Lam Wai Ying  that’s behind the estimated $9.5 $3.3 BIL #703 REAL ESTATE $1.2 BIL #1867 REAL ESTATE,
$5.4 BIL #351
Lee Man Tat  SMARTPHONE SCREENS billion Greenwich Peninsula, Ronald McAulay  HOTELS
$11.6 BIL #132 OYSTER SAUCE, a residential-and-commercial $3.2 BIL #729 ENERGY Cui Lijie 
REAL ESTATE Pansy Ho  project under way in London. Wu Kaiting ★ $1.1 BIL #1999 GAMBLING
$5.3 BIL #365 CASINOS
Gong Hongjia & family  $3 BIL #791 ELECTRONICS Neil Shen 
$11.2 BIL #137 Law Kar Po  $1.1 BIL #1999 VENTURE CAPITAL
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE $5 BIL #388 REAL ESTATE Huang Shih Tsai 
$2.8 BIL #859 REAL ESTATE Zhang Zhirong 
Hui Wing Mau  Patrick Lee  $1.1 BIL #1999 REAL ESTATE,
$8 BIL #190 REAL ESTATE $4.6 BIL #456 PAPER Tung Chee Chen 
$2.8 BIL #859 SHIPPING SHIPBUILDING
Walter Kwok  Ye Chenghai & family  Hon Kwok Lung & family 
$8 BIL #190 REAL ESTATE $4.5 BIL #466 Fong Yun Wah  $1 BIL #2124 REAL ESTATE FROM TOP: 360B/ALAMY; NO CREDIT; SCMP; JEROME FAVRE/BLOOMBERG
PHARMACEUTICALS $2.6 BIL #924 REAL ESTATE
Zhou Qunfei  Zhuo Jun ★
$7.8 BIL #198 Richard Li  Cho Tak Wong  $1 BIL #2124
SMARTPHONE SCREENS $4.4 BIL #480 TELECOM $2.5 BIL #965 AUTO PARTS
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*Includes Macau. 1 Macau citizen.
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