Kwee Seong Lo

Dr. Lo Kwee-seong, CBE, JP (traditional Chinese: 羅桂祥; simplified Chinese: 罗桂祥; pinyin: Luó Guìxiáng; Jyutping: lo4 gwai3 coeng4; 2 February 1910 – 5 May 1995) was a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Vitasoy, a well-known soymilk brand in Hong Kong. He was also an unofficial member of the Urban Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the chairman of the Hong Kong Consumer Council.

Lo was born in Mei-hsien County in Kwantung of Hakka descent on 2 February 1910. His father, Lo Chin-hing took the family to Malaya when he was ten years old and arrived in Hong Kong when he was twenty years old. After graduating from secondary school in 1929, Lo wanted to go to China and study civil engineering but his family was not able to support him. For that, his father's employer offered a scholarship for Lo to study Economics at the University of Hong Kong where he graduated from in 1935.

Lo joined the company of his patron after graduation and was appointed Hong Kong manager of the real estate branch. During a business trip in Shanghai in 1937, he attended a talk called "Soybeans: the cow of China" presented by Julean Arnold, then the commercial attache to the American Embassy in Nanking and actively involved in relief work using soymilk. He later wrote, "Arnold called the soybean the 'Cow of China' and practically attributed to it the preservation of the Chinese race. He said that the fact that the Chinese as a race were able to maintain the physical fitness for over 5,000 years in a land where meat was so rare was entirely due to the people's inclusion of soybeans in their diet. I was impressed by his talk and came away with soybeans stuck in my mind."

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