Awards 1981 Justice of the Peace 1982 Grand Officer of the Order Vasco Nuñez de Balboa ( Panama) 1986 Commander of the Order of the Crown ( Belgium) 1989 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 1999 Entrepreneur of the Millennium (The Times and Ernst & Young, UK) 2000 Commander in the Leopold Order ( Belgium) 2000 International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award ( University of Manitoba) 2000 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) 2001 Grand Bauhinia Medal of the Hong Kong SAR 2005 Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur ( France) 2006 Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award (Forbes) 2007 Special Honorary Award for Economic Contribution 2007 (CCTV) 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy (PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs) 2007 Presidential Award (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.)   Honorary Degrees 1986 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree ( University of Hong Kong) 1989 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 1992 Honorary Doctorate degree ( Peking University) 1995 Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) 1997 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 1998 Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree (City University of Hong Kong) 1999 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree ( Cambridge University) 1999 Honorary Doctor of Social Sciences degree (The Open University of Hong Kong)   Civic Posts 1985-1990 Member of the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) 1992-1997 Hong Kong Affairs Advisor 1995-1997 Member of the Preparatory Committee for the HKSAR From 1996 Member of the Selection Committee for the government of the HKSAR 2006 Member of the International Business Advisory Council of the UK   Mr. Li is an honorary citizen of Shantou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanhai, Foshan, Zhuhai, Chaozhou, and Beijing, PRC and Winnipeg, Canada.   close