Kwong Wui Chun (born c. 1955) is a Hong Kong aluminum businessman. He is the chairman and founder of

Asia Aluminum Asia Aluminum Holdings Limited was a Hong Kong-based aluminum fabrication company and, at its peak, one of the largest aluminum extrusion groups in Asia. The company had a designed annual production capacity of 350,000 metric tons and employed o ...

Group, and chairman of the

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Nanhai

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s Association. He was born in

Nanhai District Nanhai District (), is a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China. Its government is the first to have developed e-government informatization at the county level in China. History Establishment of Nanhai is traditionally attributed two brothers c ...

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, and moved to Hong Kong in the 1960s or 1970s. In 1981 he began buying

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aluminum in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East, and importing it for resale in Hong Kong and for further processing in Guangzhou. He founded the Asia Aluminum Group in 1992, and shepherded the company through its listing on the

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in 1998. In 2003 he was reported to be the 148th-richest person in China.

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1950s births Hong Kong businesspeople Living people People from Nanhai District Year of birth missing (living people) {{HongKong-bio-stub