Ho Yin
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Ho Yin (right) with Mao Zedong
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| Native name | 何賢 |
| Born | 1908 Panyu, Guangdong, Qing Dynasty |
| Died | December 6, 1983 (aged 74–75) Portuguese Macau |
| Cause of death | lung cancer |
| Children | Edmund Ho |
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Ho Yin or He Xian (traditional Chinese: 何賢; simplified Chinese: 何贤; pinyin: Hé Xián; Jyutping: Ho4 Jin4; 1908 - 1983) ComB was a businessman, politician and senior leader of the Chinese community in Macau.
Ho Yin was born in Panyu, in the Pearl River Delta region, 100 kilometres north of Macau in 1908, when China was still ruled by the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty. He was an important diplomatic intermediary between the People's Republic of China and the anti-Communist Estado Novo regime in Portugal, which existed between 1933 and 1974. He died in Macau on December 6, 1983.
His son, Edmund Ho, became the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region.
His father, Ho Cheng-kai, was a small businessman, owning a small shop in Panyu. When Ho was only 13, he became an apprentice in a shop in Guangzhou, learning to manage it. At 16, he moved to Shunde, a traditional centre in the region of the Pearl River Delta, where he became an administrator of a grocer's shop. In 1930, he decided to invest in the money changing business, opening a store in Guangzhou. But in 1938, with the invasion of the Japanese to Guangdong, he was forced to move to Hong Kong, where he continued his business in the then British colony. His half-brother, Ho Tim, was already in business in Hong Kong, and would later become a director of the Hang Seng Bank.
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