Felix Chung
Vincent Fang | |||||||||
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Preceded by | Selina Chow | ||||||||
Succeeded by | Tommy Cheung | ||||||||
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Born | MBA) | 4 November 1963||||||||
Occupation | Legislative Councillor Merchant | ||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 鍾國斌 | ||||||||
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Felix Chung Kwok-pan (Chinese: 鍾國斌, born 4 November 1963) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the Textiles and Garment constituency, representing the Liberal Party. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 2016 to 2022 and the party chairman from 2014 to 2016.
Early career
He was born in 1963 to a garment business family who owns the Chungweiming Knitting Factory Limited. He was educated in Scotland, graduating from
He later became the chairman of the Hong Kong Apparel Society and challenged as an independent for the Textiles and Garment functional constituency against a long-time incumbent Sophie Leung of the Liberal Party in the 2008 Legislative Council election. Chung received 711 votes, as compared to Leung's 1,255 votes, who soon fell out with the Liberals and left with two other legislators to form the Economic Synergy.[1]
Legislative Councillor
He was invited by the Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien to join the party in 2009. In the 2012 Legislative Council election, he challenged again in the same constituency against Henry Tan, CEO and president of Luen Thai Holdings, after Leung announced her retirement. He defeated Tan by 1,076 votes and took back the constituency for the Liberals. He became the vice-chairman after the election. When both James Tien and Selina Chow stepped down as party leader and chair, Chung was nominated to be the party vice-chairman on 1 December 2014.[1]
He engaged in a debate with Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying over Leung's "appropriately proactive" economic policies on newspaper in 2015. He thought that Leung abandoning the "positive non-interventionism" for "appropriately proactive" policies was worrisome, in which the "visible hand" would "go beyond the line".[2]
He retained his seat in the
He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Textile & Clothing Industries, a director of the
In the 2021 LegCo election, Chung became one of the two defeated incumbents after winning only 82 votes, half of votes received by his challenger Sunny Tan, thus ending his nine years of tenure. He stayed as the party leader until the next May, when he was succeeded by Tommy Cheung.
References
- ^ a b c "After Occupy, Liberal Party head seeks middle ground in divided Hong Kong". South China Morning Post. 22 December 2014.
- ^ "香港經濟轉捩點:當「積極不干預」撞上「適度有為」". The Initium]. 14 October 2015.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Hanbo.
External links
- Members' Biographies Hon CHUNG Kwok-pan Archived 18 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Liberal Party official website – Hon Felix CHUNG Kwok-pan Archived 15 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine