Cheung Man-kwong

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Cheung Man-kwong 張文光

Cheung in 30 May 2010, a memorial of 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
President of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union
In office 1990–2010
Preceded by	Szeto Wah
Succeeded by	Fung Wai-wah
Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office 9 October 1991 – 30 June 1997
Preceded by	Szeto Wah
Constituency	Teaching/Education
In office 1 October 1998 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Ip Kin-yuen
Constituency	Education
Personal details
Born	(1954-09-15) 15 September 1954 Hong Kong
Nationality	Hong Kong
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Ho Kwok-ching
Alma mater	Chinese University of Hong Kong (BSocSc)

Cheung Man-kwong (Chinese: 張文光, born 15 September 1954 ) A Hong Kong politician, a former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, one of the member of pan-democracy camp.

Background

Born in Hong Kong with family roots in Taishan, Guangdongwas a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council representing the Education functional constituency. He is a member of Democratic Party and former chairman of Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union. He obtain his bachelor's degree from the Economics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a registered teacher.^[1]

Views, policy positions and Legco voting

In June 2010, he voted with the party in favour of the government’s 2012 constitutional reform package, which included the late amendment by the Democratic Party – accepted by the Beijing government – to hold a popular vote for five new District Council functional constituencies.^[2]

References

↑ "Cheung Man Kwong – Personal Data". Retrieved 14 March 2010.
↑ Cheers and jeers for political reform vote, South China Morning Post, Gary Cheung, Albert Wong and Fanny WY Fung, 25 June 2010

External links

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by Szeto Wah	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Teaching 1991–1995	Succeeded by Himself as Representative for Education
Preceded by Himself as Representative for Teaching	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Education 1995–1997	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
New parliament	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Education 1998–2012	Succeeded by Ip Kin-yuen
Educational offices
Preceded by Szeto Wah	Chairman of HKPTU 1990–2010	Succeeded by Fung Wai-wah

Members of the 4th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (2008–2012)

2004–2008 ←

→ 2012–2016

President

Jasper Tsang

Geographical
constituencies

Hong Kong Island	Tanya Chan^r Audrey Eu Regina Ip Cyd Ho Kam Nai-wai Jasper Tsang

Kowloon West	Frederick Fung Starry Lee Priscilla Leung Raymond Wong^r James To

Kowloon East	Chan Kam-lam Alan Leong^r Fred Li Wong Kwok-kin

New Territories West	Albert Chan^r Cheung Hok-ming Albert Ho Lee Cheuk-yan Lee Wing-tat Leung Yiu-chung Tam Yiu-chung Wong Kwok-hing

New Territories East	Gary Chan Andrew Cheng Emily Lau Lau Kong-wah Leung Kwok-hung^r Ronny Tong Nelson Wong

Functional
constituencies

^r denotes members who resigned in January 2010 and re-elected by the Hong Kong by-election, 2010 on 16 May 2010.
^x resigned to accept Executive Council post as Secretary for Development on 29 July 2012.

Persondata
Name	Cheung, Man-Kwong
Alternative names
Short description	Hong Kong politician
Date of birth	15 September 1954
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Date of death
Place of death

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