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Short biography (50 words)
Dr Cecil Chao Sze-Tsung 趙世曾 (born 1936, Shanghai) is a Hong Kong architect and property developer. After working in the Government's Buildings Office in the early 1960s, he opened his own practice, later Cecil Chao & Associates, in 1964, and Cheuk Nang (Holdings) Limited (HKEX: 0131) in 1988, which he chairs.
Biography (150 words)
Dr Cecil Chao Sze-Tsung 趙世曾 was born in Shanghai in 1936, the son of Chao Tsong-yea and Nyi Ya-tsung, founders of Wah Kwong Shipping. He read architecture at King's College, Newcastle, then part of Durham University, and is a Registered Architect in Hong Kong and a member of RIBA and the HKIA.
In 1962 he joined the Hong Kong Government's Public Works Department, where he was an Assistant Building Surveyor in the Buildings Office. In 1964 he opened his own practice, later Cecil Chao & Associates, which has completed more than 300 projects. In 1988 he founded Cheuk Nang (Holdings) Limited (HKEX: 0131), which he chairs; the Group publishes its own history at cheuknang.asia.
He has supported education, medical research, heritage conservation, basketball and architecture throughout his life. He swam for Hong Kong as a young man. The Cecil Chao Charitable Foundation publishes the official record of his life at cecilchao.org.
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