Born in
Ji'an, Jiangxi in 1941 as a native of
Yixing, Jiangsu, he migrated to Hong Kong with his family at the age of nine. His father died when he was 13. He worked as a
messenger and a
handyman before starting small businesses including restaurants and
interior decoration companies. He made his fortune through
stock market and
property development in the 1970s. His business empire boomed as the properties he bought in the early 1980s surged in value. In 1992, he became a member of the 1st Group of
Hong Kong Affairs Advisors and made contribution for the
Hong Kong transition. In 1995 Tsui gifted a
Tang dynasty tomb figure of a
horse to the
National Gallery of Australia. In March 2010, Tsui suddenly suffered a stroke when he attended the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing. ==References==