Cheng Yu-tung GBM (Chinese: 鄭裕彤; 8 August 1925 – 29 September 2016) was a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive property investment, development and service businesses, hotels, infrastructure, jewellery retailing and transportation interests in Hong Kong, Macau, United States, Australia and other areas.
[1] Cheng was born in rural Shunde District in Guangdong, the son of a tailor, and fled to Macau in 1940, ahead of the advancing Japanese occupation force.
The goldsmith owner of the Chow Tai Fook store there took him on as an apprentice and he eventually married the boss's daughter.
He represented the Kingdom of Bhutan in Hong Kong, serving as the honorary consul for the country.
[9] Cheng died on September 26, 2016, in Hong Kong,[10] after a 2012 brain haemorrhage had left him bedridden.