{"id":"li-ka-shing","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing","language":"en","name":"Li Ka-shing","name_en":"Li Ka-shing","name_ne":"लि का-सिंग","description":"Hong Kong billionaire and entrepreneur","headline":"Hong Kong billionaire and entrepreneur","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Sir Ka-shing Li (Chinese: 李嘉誠; born 29 July 1928) is a Hong Kong tycoon and philanthropist. He previously served as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings, before retiring from those roles in May 2018. Following his retirement, he assumed the position of senior advisor to both companies. He is an investor, developer, and operator of the largest health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe. In the 2026 Forbes list of The World's Billionaires, Li Ka-shing was ranked 42nd with a net worth of $47 billion.","summary_more":["Li has invested in a range of industries, including transportation, real estate, financial services, retail, and energy and utilities. His conglomerate, Cheung Kong Holdings has operated businesses across multiple sectors of the Hong Kong economy and has at times accounted for a notable share of the total market capitalisation of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Forbes magazine and the Forbes family honoured Li Ka-shing with the first ever Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award on 5 September 2006 in Singapore. In spite of his wealth, Li has cultivated a reputation for leading a frugal no-frills lifestyle, and is known to wear simple black dress shoes and an inexpensive Seiko wristwatch. He lived in the same house for decades, in what has now become one of the most expensive districts in Hong Kong, Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong Island. Li is also a philanthropist, donating billions of dollars to charity and various other philanthropic causes, and owning the second largest private foundation in the world after Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2019, Forbes put Li in the list of most generous philanthropists outside of the US."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"13 June 1928","date":"1928-06-13"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Chao'an District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1062490"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Republic of China","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13426199","start":"1928","end":"1940"},{"text":"British Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1054923","start":"1940","end":"1997-06-30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"ship-owner","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500251"},{"text":"business executive","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2961975"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Chong Yuet Ming","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7212474","start":"1963","end":"1990-01-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"justice of the peace (since 1981)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329455","start":"1981"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Commander of the Legion of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10855212","date":"2005"},{"text":"Grand Bauhinia Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114985","date":"2001"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63072128","date":"1986"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the Peking University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63089015","date":"1992"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63101620","date":"1997"},{"text":"Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12201445","date":"2000"},{"text":"Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115088770","date":"2022"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Li Ka-shing born?","a":"Li Ka-shing was born on 13 June 1928 in Chao'an District."},{"q":"What positions has Li Ka-shing held?","a":"Positions held by Li Ka-shing include: justice of the peace (since 1981)."}],"related":[{"name":"Michael Tien","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/michael-tien"},{"name":"Peter Woo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/peter-woo"},{"name":"Francis Henry May","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/francis-henry-may"},{"name":"Yann Brekilien","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yann-brekilien"},{"name":"Carrie Lam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/carrie-lam"},{"name":"Henry Tang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/henry-tang"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/li-ka-shing-937416e1a2.jpg","width":500,"height":634,"license":"CC BY 2.0","credit":"EdTech Stanford University School of Medicine","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li_Ka_Shing.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Li Ka-shing","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): लि का-सिंग","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q20151","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20151","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Li Ka Shing.jpg by EdTech Stanford University School of Medicine (CC BY 2.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li_Ka_Shing.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Li Ka-shing, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Li Ka Shing.jpg — EdTech Stanford University School of Medicine, CC BY 2.0.","cite":"\"Li Ka-shing\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing?lang=ne"}}