Wang Tingxin

Wang Tingxin** (October 15, 1911 – July 1, 2010) was a businessman born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, Qing China. He was the father of Hong Kong businessman Wang Dehui and founder of Chinachem Group.

Wang’s father ran a dye business in Wenzhou, and Wang began working for him in 1928. After his father’s death two years later, he took over the business. In 1932, he married Ren Yuzhen, and the couple had three sons and two daughters. Wang later opened a branch office in Hong Kong and relocated there with his family.

From the 1960s onward, Wang gradually stepped back from Chinachem Group, leaving daily operations to his son Wang Dehui. Under the leadership of Wang Dehui and his wife, Nina Wang, Chinachem expanded into a major conglomerate primarily involved in real estate development.

After Wang Dehui was kidnapped and went missing in 1990, Wang Tingxin filed a petition with the Hong Kong High Court in 1997 to declare his son legally dead. On September 22, 1999, the court allowed the declaration. A protracted inheritance dispute followed between Wang and his daughter-in-law Nina Wang. The case, spanning 172 court days over 14 months, centered on two conflicting wills: one from 1968, favoring Wang Tingxin, and another from 1990, favoring Nina Wang. The court initially ruled in favor of the 1968 will in 2002, but Nina Wang appealed. In 2005, the Court of Final Appeal overturned the ruling and granted Nina Wang the estate.

In August 2006, Nina Wang's lawyers requested that Wang declare whether he had paid legal fees related to the inheritance case. On October 25, the court ruled that Wang Tingxin was responsible for one-third of Nina Wang’s trial costs, two-thirds of her appeal and final court costs, and two-thirds of the estate management costs during litigation. Combined with his own legal expenses, the total was estimated to reach HKD 600 million. The court also demanded that Wang disclose who lent him HKD 41 million for legal costs. However, Nina Wang later said she had no intention of recovering these fees from Wang.

In May 2010, Wang suffered partial paralysis from what was suspected to be a stroke. He was admitted to Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital and diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to his brain. Radiation treatment temporarily improved his condition, but on July 1, 2010, his health deteriorated rapidly and he died at Prince of Wales Hospital.

• • Family**

- **Wang Tingxin** = Ren Yuzhen (1914–2010)

 - **Wang Dehui** (1934–1990?) = Nina Wang (1937–2007)  
 - Wang Demiao = Wu Yongle  
 - Wang Dezai = Shu Yimin  
 - Wang Dexian = Sun Zijian  
 - Wang Dehua = Cui Jianmin

References**

- Takungpao: Wang Tingxin must disclose whether legal fees were paid.

- Yahoo News: Wang Tingxin: deadline passed, willing to go to jail, won’t reveal funder.