Li Ka-shing

Li Ka-shing biography

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Li Ka-shing was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, Republic of China on June 13, 1928. At the age of 15, the Hong-Kong business magnate was forced to leave school and get a job at a plastics trading company.

Li Ka-shing has a Net Worth of $33.3 Billion due to his successful career as a businessman and investor

The Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing is one of the richest billionaires in the world after Internet Entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2001, Li Ka-shing was named by Asiaweek Asia’s Most Powerful Man and his companies make in the  Hong Kong Stock Exchange a total of %15 of the market capitalization.

The Hong Kong business magnate and investor currently is the Chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings. This conglomerate was formed through a merger between Cheung Kong Holdings and  Hutchison Whampoa in 2015.

The CK Hutchison Holdings conglomerate owns companies in sectors like : Infrastructure ( Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings ), Retail ( A.S. Watson Group ), Telecoms ( Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings ) Ports ( Hutchison Port Holdings ), Energy ( Husky Energy ) and others.

Li Ka-shing founded his first company in 1950. The company was a plastic manufacturing company and it will later became the largest supplier of plastic flowers in Asia.

After that, in 1958, the Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing founded a real estate company named Cheung Kong Holdings.

The business magnate also purchased in 1979 Hutchison Whampoa and in 1985 the Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited.

Through Hutchison Whampoa Limited, Li Ka-shing invested in container port facilities in countries like Canada, United Kingdom, China, Hong-Kong, Panama, Holland and many more.

Li Ka-shing Net Worth 2015

In 2015, Li Ka-shing has a net worth of $33.3 billion and he is currently the richest person in East Asia.

Regarding his estates and homes, the Hong-Kong business magnate and investor owns a remarkable residence in the Southern district Hill in Hong Kong, a residence in the Deep water Bay district and an impressive apartment in Cheung Kong Centre.

Besides that, Li Ka-shing also owns a Sunseeker yacht, a private Gulfstream 550 jet and drives a BMW 7.

The Hong-Kong business magnate is also known for his charity work. In 1980 he founded the Li Ka Shing Foundation and the Li Ka-Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at Standford University.

In 2008, Li Ka-shing also donated $3.85 million to help the people from Sichuan after the destructive earthquake.

So how much is Li Ka-shing worth? All of his hard work took Li Ka-shing Net Worth 2015 to $33.3 Billion