The 19th century Chinese businessmen became the Chinese capitalists of the 1960s and 70s. Hong Kong's Chinese business leaders acquired the resources to buy British assets and expand. Their enterprises included air transport, finance, trade, warehousing, real estate, shipbuilding, and travel, while collectively, their assets came to be second only to those of British capitalists holding special concessions.
十九世紀的華人紳商階級，成了二十世紀六、七十年代興起的「華資」﹘﹘在地華人資本的先行者，他們甚至有能力購併英資而壯大，業種包括了航運、金融、貿易、倉儲、地產、造船、旅遊，總資本僅次於受到權力的特權撐持的英資。