Kapitan China Chung Keng Quee (1821 – 13 December 1901) is the founder and administrator of modern Taiping.

Appointed "China Captain" by the British in 1877, he is a millionaire philanthropist and known as an innovator in the mining of tin.

He is involved in many other industries including farming, pawnbroking and logging.

He is respected by both Chinese and European communities in the early colonial settlement.

His survival in the chaotic era owes much to his standing as leader of the Hai San, a Chinese secret society in British Malaya during the time of the Larut Wars (1862–73), a position he is said to have held till early 1884, although in all probability he continued to remain a leading member.

The old fort at Teluk Batu is built by him to safeguard the mine that he opens there.

He is a member of the Commission for the Pacification of Larut and sits as one of six members of the Advisory Perak State Council appointed by the British.