Both times that China's president visited Hong Kong for the 1997 handover and the opening a year later of ChekLapKokairport he stayed at Li's hotel, a unique honor.
Hong Kong Disneyland, as it will be known, is to be built on 126 hectares of reclaimed land at Penny's Bay, a nondescript inlet on Lantau Island, close to the new ChekLapKokairport.