Charles Yeung Explained

Charles Yeung
楊釗
Honorific-Suffix:GBS, JP
Birth Place:Huiyang, Guangdong, China
Office:Member of the Provisional Legislative Council
Term Start:21 December 1996
Term End:30 June 1998
Alma Mater:China Textile University
Occupation:Entrepreneur
Party:HKPA (until 2005)
DAB (2005-)

Charles Yeung Chun-kam, GBS, JP (born February 1947 in Huiyang, China) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician. A Hakka, Yeung was a member of the Provisional Legislative Council which existed from 1996 to 1998 and councillor and the member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.[1] He was the advisory professor of the China Textile University,[2] director of the Seng Heng Bank and adviser of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute.

Yeung is the founder and chairman of Glorious Sun Enterprises Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[3]

Yeung is the real estate developer of One Peking, a landmark skyscraper located at the cross-section of Peking Road and Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, across the street from Harbour City. Yeung acquired the site from the Hong Kong Government in auction in 1998 for HK$1.24 billion and invested more than $2 billion in developing the site.[4]

Yeung is chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Positions of Wong, Kennedy Ying Ho. Web-site Hong Kong. 30 April 2013.
  2. Web site: Database on LegCo members. Legislative Council of Hong Kong. 30 April 2013.
  3. Web site: Charles Yeung, Glorious Sun Enterprises LTD: Profile and Biography. .
  4. Web site: Glorious Sun rises on Tsim Sha Tsui's One Peking. 25 June 2003 .