Xu Rongmao

Xu Rongmao, , Hui Wing Mau in translation, is the Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire, and the founder and the chairman of Shimao Property, one of the largest property developer in Shanghai.

Biography

Xu grew up in Fujian Province, the oldest of the eight children. After graduating from high school during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, he was sent to the countryside to work as a barefoot doctor. In the 1970s, he emigrated to Hong Kong and worked as a textile worker.

In 1988, he claimed to invest RMB$1.2 million in a knitting factory in his hometown, but he intended to build a hotel instead, although investments in private hotels were forbidden at that time. However, as soon as the construction was completed, the government policy was changed to allow private owners to have their hotels. Then Xu became the owner of the first private three-star hotel in China. He then started to invest into developing residential complexes and resorts in Fujian.

In the 1990s, he pushed his real estate business into Beijing and Shanghai just before housing prices rose up.

In the 2000s, he expanded his business by listed companies and changing their names. They are Shimao Holdings and Shimao International , while the latter was privatized by him in 2007. His third company, Shimao Property, was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2006.



On the 14 September 2008 it was rumoured he was interested in buying Newcastle United from under fire owner Mike Ashley.

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Sara Baiyu Chen

Baiyu is a Chinese-American: singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. At the age of eight, her entire family settled in Maryland, and she was given the American name of “Sara”. While in the DC area Baiyu's interest in music and acting began to materialize. Sara Baiyu Chen has worked with , appeared in four independent films, and was a for mtvU's hit show "The Freshmen" for three years. She graduated from the number one ranked Princeton University in 2008 with a degree in Sociology.

Filmography

Television Appearances

* 2006-2008: mtvU’s “The Freshmen" – Herself

Robert Ng

Robert Ng Chee Siong born in 1952 in Singapore with family roots in Fujian, China, is the Chairman of the Sino Group, a position he has had since 1981.

He has been actively engaged in property development in Hong Kong during the last 30 years and is also the director of a number of subsidiaries and associated companies of the Company. Ng is the Chairman of Tsim Sha Tsui Properties Limited , the holding company of the Company, and the Chairman of Sino Hotels Holdings Limited . In addition, he is a Director of Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, which is listed in Singapore, and an Independent Non-executive Director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited and a Non-executive Director of SCMP Group Limited. Ng is the father of Daryl Ng Win Kong, an Executive Director of the Company.

Robert Ng is the eldest son of Ng Teng Fong, the Singaporean real estate billionaire. Forbes listed the two as the 30th richest people in the world.

Philip Wong

Philip Wong Yu-hong, was born December 23, 1938 in Quanzhou, Fujian province in the People's republic of China. He is a legislator in Hong Kong as a member of the and a representative of the National People's Congress.

Criticism

Questionable academic credentials

On the Legislative council website, Wong is listed to have a master's degree in engineering from the University of California, Juris Doctor from Southland University and from the California Coast University.
Share market analyst requested an investigation be launched to check for his possible fake academic credentials. California Coast University bulletin claimed that it "does not require formal, on-campus residence or classroom attendance". Wong did receive the engineering degree on August 27, 1984. Southland University however is now defunct, and is a typical diploma mill offering
degrees with substandard or no academic studies. Albert Cheng had once asked in an October 2004 meeting whether his middle finger gesture has been referred to a committee for consideration. Fellow pro-Beijing supporter Jasper Tsang replied that he already apologized the day before.

Ng Teng Fong

Ng Teng Fong is a Singaporean real estate billionaire. His family owns the development corporation Sino Group.

Ng made his fortune with the help of one of Singapore's early billionaires, Eliya Thamby. Despite his fortune, he has a reputation for leading a frugal and unostentatious lifestyle. Though he controls at least a quarter of Singapore's housing market, Ng lives in the same house he has had for 30 years, and used to take his own lunch on to airplanes.
Today, he is one of Hong Kong's largest real estate developers, and he is one of the largest landholders of Far East Organization in Singapore. He also owns The Fullerton Singapore in Singapore. His older son, , and younger son, Philip, are in charge of the Hong Kong and Singapore businesses respectively.

Ng's family net worth was US$6.7 billion in 2007.

March Tian Boedihardjo

March Tian Boedihardjo is a child prodigy of descent. Boedihardjo was born c. 1998 in Hong Kong with family roots in Anxi, Fujian, China. He finished his s in at the age of nine, gaining As in Mathematics and Further Mathematics and a B in Statistics. He also gained 8 GCSEs, which he sat at the same time as his A-levels. March was accepted at Hong Kong Baptist University, making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong. The university designed a tailored 5-year curriculum programme for March, but on his first day of class he criticized his classes as too easy and unstimulating. He obtained B+ and A- in most of the mathematics course in his first year examination which entered him into the Dean's List, an honour dedicated to students with semester GPA of 3.00-3.49 and with no grade below C for a given semester. He will be conferred a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Science as well as a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics upon successful completion.

March comes from a very talented family, having a brother, Horatio, who enrolled at Oxford University at 13, after studying at Greene's Tutorial College, an institution primarily attended by 16-18 year olds in Oxford. The college specialises in one-to-one tuition, making it possible for March to attain his A levels at such a young age. March commented in an interview that his father does not have sufficient money to educate him at Oxford University.

Lai Changxing

Lai Changxing is a Chinese businessman and entrepreneur from Jinjiang, Fujian in the People's Republic of China. Lai was the head of the lucrative Yuanhua Group in the Special Economic Zone of Xiamen, which became implicated in a large smuggling and corruption scandal in the late 1990s. He has been described by several media organizations as "China's most wanted fugitive", while others maintain that he is the victim of a government witch hunt and that he is a "defender of the free market". He currently resides in Canada.

Yuanhua Group

Lai resided in Fujian province before he moved to Hong Kong in 1991. In 1994 Lai founded Yuanhua Group, a prominent group of upstart companies that took advantage of the economic boom of Xiamen's status as a Special Economic Zone. The group was heavily involved in the city's real estate, clubs, and owned the 88-story Yuanhua Tower and the Yuanhua International Centre. Lai had prominent connections with the Zhejiang power elite; he was also a member of the Provincial Consultative Conference.

Lai was believed to be the mastermind of a US$10 billion scheme, during which he allegedly bribed high level officials in the administration of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in order to smuggle luxury cars and entire tanker-loads of oil into the country. Chinese authorities do not comment on allegations that Lai's Yuanhua group was also a conduit for clandestine military shipments, such as Silkworm missiles.

Canada

He fled to Canada in 1999 with his wife Zeng Mingna and their children, using a HKSAR passport ,,
Following heavy pressure from Beijing, Lai's and HKSAR passport were revoked in 2002 by the Hong Kong Government, saying that he obtained the status dishonestly.

The Chinese government has refused to drop the charges laid on him, and seeks his extradition. In the same corruption case, one of the largest in modern Chinese history, many high-level municipal and provincial officials were sacked and a few were sentenced to life in prison or death. The complex smuggling case has shifted the entire political scene in Fujian in the late 1990s. Others like Pierre Lemieux defended Lai, saying he is only a criminal because of the communist economic system in China. They say with a free market, there would be no need for smugglers like Lai.

Lai's attorney Winnipeg lawyer David Matas says it is doubtful Lai could ever get a fair trial in China, given the extent of communist party influence in the opaque judicial system. Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, architect of the crackdown on Xiamen-centred smuggling and having a very tough stance on corruption, has publicly stated that Lai deserves not just one but several deaths. Matas has now filed for an assessment of whether Lai's family is at risk if they are return to China. As long as immigration officials are considering this request, he says, they may not be removed from Canada.

Nonetheless Lai has repeatedly been denied political refugee status in Canada, most recently in 2005 September by the Supreme Court in Ottawa. This seconded the Federal court of Appeal, which in April had refused to hear Lai's appeal of the 2002 June Refugee Board decision, i.e. that Lai and Zeng didn't meet the standards to be designated as refugees.

While 14 others involved in the complex racket in China have been executed, China promised Canada, which has no capital punishment, that he would not be executed if extradited from Canada. The promise is suspect, given that Lai's brother died in a Fujian labour-camp after receiving a lesser sentence, a passing noted by Svend Robinson, then New Democratic Party member of parliament for Burnaby-Douglas.

He Wenna

He Wenna is a female gymnast. She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal with a score of 37.80.

She won a gold medal in the team event at the 2007 World Championships.

Gary Chan

The Honourable Gary Chan Hak Kan is currently the youngest member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong . He is also a member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong .

Chan graduated from the Department of Government and Public Administration at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a member of Sha Tin District Council from 1999 to 2003. He was appointed as special assistant to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Sir Donald Tsang, from 2006 to 2008, with the salary of HK$77,000 at that time.

In 2008, Chan followed Lau Kong Wah to participate in the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008 after resigning from special assistant to Chief Executive. Under the party-list proportional representation voting system, Lau's team got a total of about 100,000 votes in New Territories East Constituency, brought Chan into the Council. Both Lau and Chan won the seats.

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Chen Jitong

Chen Jitong . diplomat, general and scholar during the late Qing dynasty. Chen was born in Houguan, in present day Fuzhou. In 1869 he started to study French language at the school attached to the Fuzhou shipyward. In 1876, he was selected to accompany Shen Baozhen to Europe and he wrote a book on his impressions after his return to China the following year. He subsequently served on a number of important positions in the Qing foreign service. While serving as a diplomat in France, he wrote several famous works in French, becoming the first Francophone Chinese author.

In 1891, he was dismissed from all official positions and settled in Shanghai. Following China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, he served as foreign minister of the short-lived Republic of Formosa.

Chen Boda

Chen Boda was born 1904 in Hui'an and died on 20 September 1989 in Beijing.

He was a communist organizer who participated in the 1926–1927 and later went to Moscow to study for four years. In 1930, Chen Boda returned to China to teach in Beijing. From 1937 on, he worked as a teacher in Yan'an.

In 1951, he wrote an article with the title ''Mao Zedong's theory of the Chinese Revolution is the combination of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese Revolution'' and a book entitled ''Mao Zedong on the Chinese Revolution''. These works made him one of the most important interpreters of Mao Zedong's thoughts. In 1958, he became the of the party journal '''' .

Chen Boda was placed as temporary head of the Communist government's propaganda machine alongside Jiang Qing during the Cultural Revolution when the previous leader, Lu Ting-yi was deposed.

Chen Boda participated in the Cultural Revolution and became a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo. In 1971, he spoke out against excesses and suddenly disappeared.

After the Cultural Revolution, he was tried by the new regime as a collaborator with the . He was sentenced to eighteen years in prison, but was released shortly afterwards due to his ill health.

Benny Chan Ho Man

Benny Chan Ho Man is a Hong Kong actor and singer. His performance in the TVB series "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 1996" won him much praise as he took on the male lead as a first time actor. His portrayal of Duan Yu in "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 1996" swept him into fame and brought him many acting opportunities, consequently making him a well known character in Hong Kong and later on in different parts of Aisa. He broke up with popular TVB actress Charmaine Sheh in November, 2006.

Music

Chan's most well known song is Journey to the West II's theme song. He also sang the themesongs for Journey to the West II, Dragon Love, Gods of Honour, Silver Mouse, Qian Long Xia Jiang Nan, and A Pillow Case of Mystery and the subthemes for Journey to the West II, Anti-Crime Squad, Silver Mouse, Vigilante Force, and Qian Long Xia Jiang Nan. His rendition of Chinese versions of two Pokemon songs has won him several awards.

Filmography

Television Series

*The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
*Dark Tales II
*Journey to the West II
*Anti-Crime Squad
*Dragon Love
*Zhuang Ya Princess
*Reaching Out
*Gods of Honour
*Silver Mouse
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*Network Love Story
*Vigilante Force
*Qian Long Xia Jiang Nan
*Carry Me Fly and Walk Off
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*Deadful Melody
*The Undercover Swordsman
*Hi-Fly
*Yan Hua San Yue
*A Pillow Case of Mystery
*The Biter Bitten
*Da Qing Hou Gong
*Love Machine
*Legend of the Demigods
*A Change of Destiny
*Chor Lau Heung
*Liao Zhai 2
*Bao Qing Tian
*Chocolate Lovers
*The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang

Movies

*Love and the City
*Made in Heaven
*The Last Ghost Standing
*The Final Winner
*Salon Beauty
*Love is a Butterfly

Aw Boon Haw

Aw Boon Haw was a Burmese Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm. His family was of Hakka descent and his ancestors were from in Fujian Province. Haw later migrated to Singapore, where he began the business of Tiger Red Balm with his brother, Aw Boon Par. His legacy is found in the Haw Par Villas throughout Asia, with locations in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Fujian Province.

Haw founded several newspapers, including '''' and '''' , which are both based in Malaysia today. ''Sing Tao Daily'' dates back to 1938 and is currently based in Hong Kong.

While on a trip to Hong Kong from Boston in 1954, Haw died at the age of 72 from a heart attack following a major operation.

Aw Boon Haw is often translated into Cantonese as Wu Man Fu in Hong Kong. Aw's has a daughter called Wu Sin , who used to be a member in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Zheng Xiaoyu

Zheng Xiaoyu was director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China. He was sentenced to death in the at on May 29, 2007. He was on July 10, 2007 for corruption and possibly tainted products in Mainland China.

Biography

Born in Fuzhou, Fujian, Zheng Xiaoyu received his bachelor's degree in biology from Fudan University in 1968. He joined the Communist Party of China in November 1979.

Zheng was director of the State Pharmaceutical Administration from 1994 to 1998, head of the State Drug Administration from 1998 to 2003, and director of the State Food and Drug Administration from 2003 to 2005.

In May 2007, Zheng was convicted of taking bribes and dereliction of duty and sentenced to death by a trial court in Beijing. These corrupt practices are believed to have led to 40 deaths in Panama from cough syrup that contained diethylene glycol in place of glycerin. Zheng had been convicted of personally approving unproven and unsafe medicines after taking bribes from eight pharmaceutical companies totaling more than 6.49 million , , the former head of China's ministry of food and drug safety, which resulted in at least a hundred patient deaths , or thousands according the Chinese claims on the internet, and as a result, he was sentenced to death in the trial. It was also discovered during his eight year reign as the head of China's ministry of food and drug safety, Zheng personally ordered the approvals of more than 150,000 new medicines, an average of astonishing 134 times that of USA's FDA, which only approves 140 or so new medicines annually. Most of those 150,000 medicines were the products of the eight pharmaceutical companies that bribed Zheng, and a single unsafe medication of Anhui Hua Yuan Company resulted 14 patient deaths and hundreds being permanently disabled, while several thousand fell seriously ill. Zheng's former deputy was also convicted, for accepting more than two million to help Zheng Xiaoyu. The former deputy was sentenced to a two year delayed death sentence and a new system for unsafe food recall would be implemented by the end of the year. However, the general public sentiment in China was that this was only the tip of the iceberg, because in the case of Zheng, the exact amount of the bribe was much higher than what has been revealed so far, and this is confirmed by Zheng's confession: in March 2007, Zheng admitted that the exact amount might never be known for sure because the 6.49 million was only what he accepted, and his wife and son also accepted separate huge amount of bribe which he was not part of, and the investigation on Zheng's family was still on-going. The Chinese public also believes that as the investigation deepens, the number of confirmed patient deaths and disabilities will increase.

Zheng entered an appeal for leniency on June 12, saying that the sentence was "too severe" citing the fact that he had confessed his crimes and cooperated with investigators. However, the court ruled that he was a "great danger" to the country and its reputation.

The appeal was rejected on June 22 and he was executed on July 10, 2007 . State media did not report the method of execution. It is believed that most such sentences are now carried out by lethal injection rather than by firing squad .

Zhang Gaoli

Zhang Gaoli is the current CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary. He was the Party Secretary in the economic sprawl of Shandong province until March of 2007.

Biography

Zhang joined the in November 1973, and he is an economist by profession. He was educated at Xiamen University in Xiamen from 1965 to 1970.

From 1997 to 2002 he held prominent leadership positions in the special economic zone of Shenzhen and the provincial government of Guangdong, and was instrumental in the economic development of region. An economic thinker, Zhang was then entrusted with the economic development of Shandong, where he was the first-in-charge CPC Shandong Committee Secretary.

Before the 17th Party Congress the central leadership moved Zhang in a provincial leadership reshuffle to lead the coastal city of Tianjin. He is believed to be an emerging member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership.

Zhang Dingcheng

Zhang Dingcheng was a politician of the People's Republic of China.

Biography

Zhang Dingcheng was born in Yongding County, Fujian in 1898. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927.

Zhang was the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate from 1954 to 1975.

Yang Yuehua

Yang Yuehua , original name Mao Jinhua, was born in Longyan, Fujian, China with family roots in Xiangtan, Hunan, China. She is the elder daughter of Mao Zedong, founding chairman of the People's Republic of China and his third wife He Zizhen. When she was born in 1929, the Chinese Communist Party was being chased by Kuomintang army and Mao Zedong decided to leave Longyan and abandon bringing up her daughter. She was later adopted by a family surnamed and her name was changed to Yang Yuehua since then.

In 1973, He Minxue, Yang's uncle met with Yang in Fuzhou and confirmed her identity. However, Yang never met with her parents before their death due to several reasons .