Sio Tak Hong
Sio Tak Hong (Chinese: 蕭德雄, November 20, 1962); born in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China) is a politician of the People's Republic of China, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Chief Executive Election Committee, and a prominent businessman in Hong Kong and Macao. Sio has a wide range of businesses, and is a property developer, investor, and philanthropist. His financial interests include property development, infrastructure and services, gaming, hotels, environmental protection, and other businesses. He is the Vice Chairman of South Bay Development Company Limited and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Senki Development Company Limited and Fortune Hotel Macau Limited.[1] He was also the Chairman of Koon Chung Properties Group in 2009,[2] and resigned in 2021.[3] He is the founding president of the Macau Jiangmen Clansmen Association, an honorary citizen of Jiangmen City, and the permanent honorary president of the Jiangmen Charity Association.[4]
Career
After graduating from high school in 1980, he worked as a chef in the restaurant of the "Guangdong-China Company" in Jiangmen, became the manager of the restaurant in the same year, and then became the general manager of the company in 1984. The first key performance target after opening was to break even within 3 months, which was accomplished within 1 month. By chance, he learned about color photofinishing technology from Hong Kong, when most of the photos in China were still in the "black and white world", so he started his own business in 1985 and opened the only photo studio in Jiangmen.
Opening a garment factory in Haiti
In 1987, he set his eyes on the other side of the ocean in the Caribbean Islands of Haiti, which had not yet established diplomatic relations with China. With a workforce of about 1,000 employees, the factory sells garments made in Haiti from South Africa, and the fabrics are imported from China to make garments in Haiti, and 100% of them are exported to the United States. Due to the sudden military dispute in Haiti, the president went into exile in the United States, and the factory was robbed of all the garments.
Collaboration with Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho
Afterwards, he decided to sell his factories in Haiti and return to Macau to invest in real estate, and in 1990, he partnered with Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho and other wealthy businessmen to build a 130-hectare reclamation project at Nam Van Lake. The project involved reclamation (50 hectares), construction of an artificial lake (80 hectares), construction of major roads, major sewerage interceptors, major storm water drainage channels, parking lots (4,750 public parking spaces; 7,060 private parking spaces), 45 buildings (6 hotels; 35 office, commercial and residential buildings; 4 government office facilities). The project was developed independently in 1991 with a land area of approximately 77,000 square feet and an area of approximately 1,200,000 square feet.
Collaboration with two of Hong Kong's wealthiest businessmen, Joseph Luen-hung Lau and Yu-sum Kung
After the opening of gambling rights, a total of 21 consortia bid for the project, and St. Mary's Bay was officially led by Joseph Lau Luen-hung.
Mainland investment
Since 2008, he has invested in the environmental protection and medical health industries in Guangdong Province, "New Fortune Environmental Protection Industrial Park", with more than 100 enterprises and over 10,000 employees. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Xiao also actively contributes to the society and makes outstanding contributions to the development of education, medical care and poverty alleviation in the motherland, and has been appointed as a special researcher of the World Development Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council and vice president of the Martyrs Foundation of the Ministry of Public Security.
Social welfare
Donation of Liang Qichao's Manuscripts
In 2013, on the 140th anniversary of the birth of Liang Qichao, Mr. Xiao Dexiong donated the manuscript of "A Treatise on the History of European Warfare" and its four calligraphic screens, which he obtained at auction, to the Jiangmen City Museum.[5]
On the title page of the manuscript, Liang Qichao wrote that the book was written for his 15-year-old son, Liang Sicheng. The four calligraphic works of Mr. Liang Qichao are all in regular script, with sharp and clear dots, and a dignified and majestic ending.
Selected as one of Guangfu's "Double Ten"
The first World Guangfu People's Convention (WGC) was held on November 12, 2013 at the Baiyun International Convention Center in Guangzhou, and the first Guangfu People's "Top Ten Outstanding People" and "Top Ten Outstanding Youths" were awarded. The first Guangfu "Top Ten Outstanding People" and "Top Ten Outstanding Youths" were awarded. As an important event of the first World Guangfu People's Convention, the "Top Ten Outstanding Guangfu People" and "Top Ten Outstanding Guangfu Youth" were the highlights of the convention. Through two rounds of selection, the jury has recently named the finalists of the two awards. In addition, more than half of the 20 people named as "Double Ten Outstanding" came from the economic field, which Lai explained is a reflection of the "business-oriented" tradition of Guangfu people. Donation to the Sichuan disaster area.
On May 16, 2008, Mr. Huang Songfu, Deputy Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macau, received a donation of HK$250,000 from honorary consuls of six countries in Macau to the Sichuan disaster area at the Diplomatic Office. They are Mr. Siu Tak Hong, Honorary Consul of Grenada, Mr. Lai Tak Mong, Honorary Consul of Guinea, Mr. Chiang Mo Han, Honorary Consul of Niger, Mr. Leong Sze Yang, Honorary Consul of Mali, Mr. Chan Hin Keong, Honorary Consul of Namibia and Mr. Chan Pui Io, Honorary Consul of Tanzania. Deputy Commissioner Huang introduced the disaster situation in Sichuan and the situation of China's military and civilian efforts in the earthquake relief. The Honorary Consuls in Australia expressed their gratitude for the touching television footage of the military and civilians in China fighting the earthquake. Although the donation is not much, but the expression is a token of appreciation for the people in the disaster area, hope they can feel the warmth of the international community and compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, strong and resilient, through the difficulties. Torchbearers of the 16th Asian Games.
The torch of the 16th Asian Games came to Jiangmen, the 19th stop in Guangdong Province, to start the relay. Jiangmen Olympic gymnastics champion Li Shanshan started as the first torchbearer, then Li Hongli passed the torch to Xiao Dexiong, the founding president of Macau Jiangmen Clansmen Association, who is passionate about charity in his hometown, and Xiao Dexiong passed it to Liang Renkan, the grandson of Liang Qichao, the 79th batonbearer, who lit the torch with the 80th batonbearer, Liu Hai, the acting mayor of Jiangmen. In nearly 60,000 people along the cheering, 80 torchbearers after 7.1 kilometers of passionate journey full of overseas Chinese customs, the "trend" torch in Jiangmen's transmission also drew a perfect end, while the enthusiasm of Jiangmen citizens looking forward to the Asian Games has been further ignited.
Philanthropy
- 2005: Guangzhou Charity Association hospital expansion (funding unknown)
- 2006: China Aerospace Foundation MOP 300,000
- 2013: Guangdong Foundation for Poverty Alleviation HK$1,000,000
- 2013: MOP300,000 to Macau Young Eagles Association
- 2013: Donation of a manuscript and four screens of regular script of "Historical Theory of European Campaign" by Mr. Liang Qichao of Jiangmen Municipal Government
- 2014: Donation of HK$770,000 from Guangxi
- 2014: RMB 200,000 from the government of Xaping Town, Jinggangshan City
- 2015: Jiangmen Women's Federation RMB 2 million
- 2015: Macao Women's Federation HK$5 million
- 2019: Wuyi Charity Association RMB 1,000,000
- 2006 - 2013: Macau Hao Jiang Secondary School MOP 2 million
- 2008 - 2015: Wuyi University Research Fund of MOP15 million
- 2014 - 2021: The Chinese University of Hong Kong established the Xiao Scholarship of approximately HK$4.35 million
Awards and honors
- Honorary President of Macau Real Estate Association
- Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Market Magazine
- Vice Chairman of Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Commission
- Honorary President of Macau Shunde Long Jiang Clansmen's Association
- Honorary President of the Macau Chapter of the European-Asian Chinese Golf Association
- Honorary President of Macau Responsible Gaming Association
- Member and Standing Committee Member of the 11th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Guangdong Guangfu People (Breguet) Friendship Association Honorary President
- Honorary President of the Yunnan Federation of Commerce and Industry of Macao and Macao Yunnan Clansmen's Friendship and Mutual Association
- Honorary Director of the National Health Industry Working Committee (Macau Project)
- Honorary President of Macau Xinhui Sizian Clansmen's Association
- Jiangmen City CPPCC Members Association Advisor
- Honorary President of Macau Du Nguyen Clansmen's Association
- Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hao Jiang Secondary School, Macau
- Honorary President of Macau Zhongshan Clansmen's Association
- Honorary President of Macau Nan'an Clansmen's Association and Macau Nan'an Chamber of Commerce
- Jiangmen Xinhui District Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Permanent Honorary Chairman
