Donor

The late Dr The Honourable Lee Shau-kee, the founder of Henderson Land Development Company Limited, was a prominent business leader and a well-known philanthropist. Together with some close friends, he established the Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation in 1982. The Foundation adopts a visionary approach to enhancing human resources and providing educational and training opportunities in mainland China. Over the decades, the Foundation has sponsored and organised hundreds of programmes and trained tens of thousands of people in leadership positions.

Throughout Dr Lee's lifetime, he made generous donations to numerous worthwhile projects, including providing training for over 1.23 million farmers and 10,000 village doctors in mainland China, financing over 1,500 university presidents in central and western regions of China to advance their management skills through exchanges with top universities around the world, and expanding campus facilities and establishing scholarship programmes in a number of schools and universities in mainland China, Hong Kong and overseas.

Dr Lee received numerous honours and accolades throughout his life, including honorary doctorates and fellowships from local and overseas universities, including City University of Hong Kong. In March 2008, he was bestowed various honours by the three top mainland universities, Fudan, Tsinghua and Peking, which is unprecedented. He had extensive experience in public service in mainland China and Hong Kong, and was made an Honorary Citizen by the Shunde Municipal People's Government and the Beijing Municipal People’s Government. He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2007 in recognition of his significant contributions to society.