BEIJING -- When China embarked on market reforms in the 1980s, Hui Wing Mau was among the first businessmen in Hong Kong to enter the mainland, dabbling in plastics and textile manufacturing before alighting on the business that made him a billionaire: property.
Shimao Chairman Hui Wing Mau was one of the first entrepreneurs from Hong Kong to enter the mainland Chinese market during the reform period of the 1980s. (Source photos by AP and Reuters)
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