Cheng Chi Ping

Biography

Cheng Chi Ping was born in 1931 in Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong in 1948. Later he studied in the Lingnan University in Guangzhou. Because of the Korean War, he could not finish his study and went back to Hong Kong. During 1950 to 1951, he was a trainee at a factory operated by textile industrialist from Shanghai. There he learned how to use the weaving machines and manage workers with a foreman. In 1953, he went to Japan and studied textile at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. He was graduated in 1959, and then joined Central Textiles (Hong Kong) Ltd (abbr. Central Textiles). He started as a factory administrator of the spinning department, and then went on to become the company's Managing Director.