1882 was promoted to manager of Jardine Matheson's Hong Kong Fire Insurance Company and Guangdong Water Insurance Company.
1894 was promoted to General Manager of Jardine Matheson Group.
1897 has become a rich man with a net worth of more than 2 million, and resigned as the general manager of Jardine Matheson Group in the same year, and was replaced by his brother He Qifu.
1906 Mr. He Qidong applied to the Governor in Council to live in the Mid-Levels in Central, becoming the first China citizen to live on the Peak of Taiping Mountain.
1926 took over the business newspaper, which was very successful.
Successfully mediated the seafarers' strike in the 1930s.
Before the fall of 194 1 Hong Kong, he fled Hong Kong and took refuge in Macau, and returned to Hong Kong on New Year's Day of 1946 to continue his business.
1952 was awarded the Portuguese medal.
1956 died in Hong Kong in April. Donated Macao real estate to the Macao government before his death, and now it is established as Hedong Library.
Sir Ho Tung Charitable Fund is one of the major trust funds in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1956 with a donation of 500,000 yuan from the late Sir He Dong. The fund is now managed by HSBC Trust (Hong Kong) Limited.