Kwong Siu-hing
20th and 21st-century Hong Kong businesswoman
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Kwong Siu-hing, or sometimes Kwok Kwong Siu-hing (Chinese: 郭鄺肖卿;[2] born 2 December 1929[3]), is the matriarch of the Kwok family. She controls the conglomerate Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019.[4] As of 2008, Kwong effectively controls about 41.53% of SHK Properties' shares through a family trust, so she was deemed as the largest shareholder of the company, with a net worth of 19.4 billion dollars as of February 2026.[5][6]
December 2, 1929
Kwong Siu-hing | |||||||||||
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Kwong Siu-hing (centre) flanked by Timothy Fok (left) and her son, Thomas (right) in July 2008 | |||||||||||
| Born | Kwong Siu-hing (鄺肖卿) December 2, 1929 | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Company director | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2008–2011 | ||||||||||
Board member of | Sun Hung Kai Properties (former chairperson and non-executive director) | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Kwok Tak-seng | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄺肖卿 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 邝肖卿 | ||||||||||
| Jyutping | kwong3 ciu3 hing1 | ||||||||||
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Family
Kwong is the widow of Kwok Tak-seng, the founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and the mother of Walter, Thomas and Raymond, directors of the company. She moved from mainland China to British Hong Kong in 1947,[1] on the eve of the Second Chinese Civil War.
According to the South China Morning Post, prior to her 2008 appointment as chairperson, she "had never sat on the board of a Hong Kong company".[1] On 27 May 2008, Kwong replaced her son Walter when he was ousted as chairperson of the company;[1][5] she stepped down from the position in late 2011.[7] Walter Kwok also had a bitter rivalry with his brothers, which ended in division of the family fortune.[1][8]
The Kwok family was ranked as the third in Forbes's 2017 Asia's Richest Families, with a net worth of US$40.4 billion.[9] In a separate ranking, her sons Thomas and Raymond were collectively ranked as the fourth-richest in Hong Kong as of 2018 by the annual Forbes' Hong Kong's 50 Richest list;[10] The two younger brothers were ranked as 77th in the 2018 list of The World's Billionaires, with a net worth of US$16.5 billion at that time.[10] Walter Kwok was ranked 10th in Hong Kong and 190th in the world, also by Forbes. His estimated net worth at that time was US$8 billion.[11] In February 2019, she ranked 78th in the Billionaires 2019 list and 5th in the Hong Kong's 50 Richest 2019 list with a net worth of US$15.1 billion.
Kwong's son Walter died on 20 October 2018.[12]
See also
- Four big families of Hong Kong § Other definitions, defining some notable families of Hong Kong, with membership changing from time to time.