Li Ka-shing steps down, bringing nearly 7-decade career to an end

Li Ka-shing steps down, bringing nearly 7-decade career to an end

Li Ka-shing Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg

Billionaire Li Ka-shing will formally step down on Thursday as head of a business empire he built during a span of nearly seven decades, pacing the rise of Hong Kong from a U.K.-run enclave to today’s bastion of capitalism.

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