eCargo News
WIlliam Zhao CEO at eCargo Holdings Limited, has made headlines in The Australian this week.
William Zhao was a six-year-old living in Shanghai with his mother in June 1989 when his father, DaMing, was studying in Sydney. Zhao has no memory of the traumatic events in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, when Chinese tanks ran down student protesters. But his family’s lives changed the day Bob Hawke, then prime minister, took the unexpected decision to allow Chinese students in Australia at the time to be granted residency.
William and his mother moved to Australia to join his father and begin a new life in Sydney. Thirty years later, having benefited from an education including a commerce degree from Macquarie University, Zhao, 36, is one of a generation of young people from mainland China who have carved out successful careers in Australia. In Zhao’s case, he has become one of a group of Australian-Chinese able to use connections and cultural understanding of both countries to develop businesses.
In February, Zhao became chief executive of ASX-listed company eCargo after it bought 85 per cent of Metcash’s China business, which means he lives in Shanghai, shuttling back and forth between the two countries as he looks for ways to sell more Australian goods to China’s increasingly affluent middle class.
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