74-strong committee set up to prepare for Hong Kong tycoon Lee Shau-kee’s funeral
Committee members include Chief Executive John Lee, former city leader Tung Chee-hwa and Beijing’s top man in Hong Kong Zheng Yanxiong
A 74-strong committee, comprising Hong Kong’s leader, Beijing officials and other city heavyweights, has been set up to prepare for the funeral of late tycoon and Henderson Land Development founder Lee Shau-kee.
Affectionately known as “Uncle Four”, Lee died last month at the age of 97 after serving as chairman of the developer between 1976 and 2019. He was Hong Kong’s third richest man and dubbed Asia’s god of stock trading and a patriotic philanthropist.
Henderson Land said on Friday that the Hong Kong Funeral Home in North Point would host a vigil for the tycoon on Sunday and he would be remembered with a Buddhist funeral service on Monday.
A burial ceremony will be held in his ancestral hometown of Daliang, inside Guangdong province’s Shunde city, at a later date.
Prominent members of the committee include Zheng Yanxiong, director of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, his deputy Yin Zonghua, and former Hong Kong chief executives Tung Chee-hwa and Leung Chun-ying.