Chuang Shih-ping

{{Short description|Hong Kong businessman (1911–2007)}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Chuang Shih-ping

| native_name = {{nobold|莊世平}}

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| office = Chair of the Nanyang Commercial Bank

| term_start = 14 December 1949{{cite web|url=http://www.ncbchina.cn/tw/info_5_17.html|script-title=zh:做最能讀懂中國人的外資銀行|year=2011|publisher=NCB|language=Chinese|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}}

| term_end = 1986{{cite web|url=http://www.huashangtaolue.com/pdf/hstl/zhangshiping.pdf|script-title=zh:全国侨联副主席、南洋商业银行创始人庄世平|publisher=华商韬略|language=Chinese|access-date=31 August 2014|location=China}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1911|1|20}}

| birth_place = Puning, Guangdong, Qing dynasty

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2007|6|2|1911|1|20}}

| death_place = Hong Kong

| nationality = Hong Kong Chinese

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{{Chinese|s=莊世平|t=庄世平|p=|j=}}

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Chuang Shih-ping, {{post-nominals|country=HKG|GBM}}{{cite web|url=http://www.protocol.gov.hk/images/eng/precedence/prelist.pdf|title=HKSAR PRECEDENCE LIST|date=August 2014|publisher=HKSAR Government|access-date=17 August 2014|location=Hong Kong|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006073319/http://www.protocol.gov.hk/images/eng/precedence/prelist.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}} ({{zh|莊世平}}, 20 January 1911 – 2 June 2007){{cite web|url=http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200706/02/P200706020283.htm|title=CE mourns passing of Chuang Shih-ping|date=2 June 2007|publisher=HKSAR Government|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}}{{cite web|url=http://www.go.asia/chuang-shih-ping/|title=Chuang Shih-ping|date=10 February 2012|publisher=Go.Asia|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}} was a Hong Kong businessman{{cite book|last=Liang|first=Wei |author2=Faizullah Khilji |title=China and East Asia's Post-Crises Community: A Region in Flux|publisher=Lexington Books|date=4 October 2012|pages=174|isbn=9780739170830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4fecWiR618C&q=China+and+East+Asia's+Post-Crises+Community:+A+Region+in+Flux}} who was the founder of the Hong Kong Nanyang Commercial Bank in 1949 and the Macau Banco Nan Tung in 1950.{{cn|date=October 2020}} Zhuang was born in Puning, Guangdong and he came to Hong Kong in 1947. As a member of the pro-Beijing camp, Chuang was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee{{cite web|url=http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/zhuanti/taiwan/twnews/t56900.htm|title=HK CPPCC Members Strongly Condemn 'Taiwan Independence' Remarks (08/12/02)|date=24 December 2003|publisher=Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco |access-date=31 August 2014|location=United States}} and a local National People's Congress delegate by the Chinese government.{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/599715/veteran-beijing-loyalist-who-loved-country-dies-66|title=Veteran Beijing loyalist who 'loved the country' dies at 66|last=Lee|first=Klaudia|date=8 July 2007|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}} He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in July 1997 and was among the first to receive this honor.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2008-06/24/content_6788073.htm|title=A legendary life in photographs|last=Ho|first=Lousie|date=24 June 2008|work=China Daily|access-date=31 August 2014|location=China}}

Chuang died in Hong Kong from Heart failure on 2 June 2007.{{cite news|url=http://paper.wenweipo.com/2007/06/03/NS0706030003.htm|script-title=zh:大紫荊勳賢 著名僑領莊世平辭世|last=治祖|first=鄭|date=3 June 2007|work=Wen Wei Po|language=Chinese|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}} He was 96.{{cite news|url=http://hongkong.dwnews.com/big5/news/2011-12-09/58390822.html|script-title=zh:香港舉行莊世平百年誕辰紀念活動|date=9 December 2011|publisher=DWNews.com|language=Chinese|access-date=31 August 2014|location=Hong Kong}}