Cheong Eak Chong | |
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| 鍾奕莊 | |
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| Born | 1888 Anxi County, Quanzhou, Fujian, Qing China |
| Died | (aged 95) |
| Known for | Real estate business |
| Title | Chairman of the Hong Fok Corporation |
| Children | 28 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鍾奕莊 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 钟奕庄 | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鍾銘選 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 钟铭选 | ||||||||||||||
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Cheong Eak Chong (Chinese: 钟奕庄; pinyin: Zhōng Yìzhuāng; 1888 – 13 February 1984) was a Chinese businessman of She ethnicity. He was born in Anxi County in Fujian in 1888, but left China in 1921 for Singapore. He began his business career there as a goldsmith,[1] later diversifying into finance and opening a bank with offices in Hong Kong and focused his investments in the real estate and tourism industries in Singapore and Hong Kong, establishing a property empire whose eventual flagship was the Hong Fok Corporation. Throughout his career, Cheong contributed to poverty relief and development in his home county of Anxi, and he is commemorated in the names of a number of public institutions in Fujian.