Henry Cheng, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Henry Cheng

Hong Kong businessman

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1946

Place of Birth: Shunde District, Guangdong, China

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Henry Cheng Kar-shun, GBM, GBS (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; born 11 December 1946) is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer. Cheng is the elder son of Cheng Yu-tung who founded Hong Kong-listed New World Development of which Henry succeeded his father as chairman.
Cheng is chairman of NWS Holdings, New World China Land, and New World Department Store China.
He is also a Standing Committee Member of the Eleventh Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.In the 2012 Chief Executive election in Hong Kong, Cheng initially supported Henry Tang but switched to support the eventual winner, Leung Chun-ying.
When Leung's second Secretary for Development, Paul Chan, became embroiled in a property and credibility scandal (as had the first, Mak Chai-kwong), Cheng was the first public figure to offer support.
Cheng has six children (from oldest to youngest): Adrian, Sonia, Brian, Christopher, Chak-wang and Chak-yin. In 2016, Henry Cheng donated RMB$300 million to China Internet Development Foundation (whose president is a former senior executive of Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily) to "support cyber security training".