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Tung family launches Shanghai ship museum

Shanghai will soon have its first shipping museum - thanks to the family of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.

Mr Tung's sister, Alice King, made a donation of five million yuan (HK$4.7 million) to Jiaotong University on Monday to help finance the museum. It will open later this year and will be named after their father, shipping magnate Tung Chao-yung.

'My father showed great patriotic aspiration during his final years in Hong Kong to erect a museum showcasing shipping history on the mainland, and now his desire is being fulfilled,' Ms King told the Shanghai Daily.

The donation was made in the name of the Shanghai and Hong Kong Cultural Association, of which Ms King is honorary president.

The late shipping magnate hailed from Zhejiang province and founded the China Shipping Co in 1936 before moving to Hong Kong ahead of the communist takeover of the mainland.

The museum will feature replicas of Chinese war and cargo ships, dating back to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD), a time of China's maritime prowess.

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