Huang Shixin
Wong See-sum (English: Jackie Wong, born November 1948), a native of Chaozhou, is a Hong Kong industrialist, former Director and Chairman of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, philanthropist, Justice of the Peace, Hong Kong Affairs Advisor, Vice Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong, a key member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), Chairman of Hong Thai Travel Services, guest judge on the show "Beautiful Cooking", patron of TWGHs Wong See Sum Primary School and TWGHs Ng Sheung Lan Memorial Secondary School, guest on the radio program "Summit", representative for the tourism sector in the 2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector Elections, and a member of the Industry and Finance subsector of the First HKSAR Chief Executive Election Committee.
In 1966, Wong See-sum's father, Wong Ming-chuen, founded Hong Thai Travel Services in Hong Kong.[1] By the 2010s, Wong had sold 51% of the company’s shares to a subsidiary of HNA Group. In 2019, he sold the remaining 49% shares to HNA, officially exiting operations of Hong Thai.
Family
Wong See-sum is married and has three children: Wong Chun-tat, Wong Chun-tak, and Wong Hong-lai.
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- Wong (surname)
- Hong Kong people of Chaozhou descent
- Hong Kong racehorse owners and breeders
- Hong Kong businesspeople
- Teochew businesspeople
- HNA Group people
- Hong Kong philanthropists
- Chairmen of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
- Politicians with business backgrounds
- Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Guangdong Province
- Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Shenzhen
- Pro-Beijing camp (Hong Kong)
- Former members of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance
- Members of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong