王國興

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Wong Kwok-hing, who holds the Bronze Bauhinia Star and the Medal of Honour, was born on 29 March 1949 in Haiphong in what was then French Indochina, with ancestral roots in Zhangzhou, Fujian. He is a Hong Kong pro-establishment politician and veteran labour activist. He graduated from Jinan University in Guangzhou with a bachelor of arts degree and devoted himself to the labour movement early on. He is a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and a founding member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), and he was formerly an Urban Council member. As regards the legislature, he was nominated by the FTU and elected to the Legislative Council for the labour functional constituency in 2004, moved to the New Territories West geographical constituency and won in 2008, and was returned again in 2012 for Hong Kong Island, serving until 2016. At the district level he was a member and vice-chairman of the Eastern District Council for the Wo Fu constituency before standing down in 2007 and endorsing Kwok Wai-keung instead. During his time in the council he had a strong attendance record and followed labour rights and livelihood issues, having raised the demand for paternity leave many years earlier and setting up a concern group to follow it up. He also took a stance against filibustering in the council and for scrutinising the government, served as convenor of the '230,000 Monitor' group, and held posts as head of the FTU's New Territories office and in its social policy work. Since leaving the legislature he has continued to speak and comment on Hong Kong's labour movement history and labour policy.