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  • Tang -- who has a bachannalian streak and is well known for hosting lavish wine dinners with vintages drawn from extensive private cellars -- began as an industrialist, helping to run his father's textiles business, Peninsula Knitters Ltd, that made pioneering investments across China including a cashmere factory in the arid western region of Xinjiang.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

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