Today, though it holds stakes in publicly traded companies such as Wison Engineering and Weichai Power, the family company is best known in Hong Kong for its real estate and hotels in Asia and Canada.

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Publicly-traded truck companies like Sinotruk, and the publicly-traded makers of the diesel engines that power them such as Yuchai and Weichai, have very strong market positions in the China market and very bright futures as a result.

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