侯志強

English

Hau Chi-keung (born 1956) is a Hong Kong indigenous resident of Ho Sheung Heung in Sheung Shui and a 31st-generation member of the Hau clan there. He is chairman of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee, a post he has held since 22 March 2007, succeeding Lau Ying-wo, and in that capacity is an ex officio member of the 7th North District Council (2024-2027); he is also an ex officio executive committee member of the Heung Yee Kuk and a member of the Huizhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. A businessman active in Sheung Shui and the northern New Territories, he retained the rural committee chairmanship in 2011, defeating the well-known horse trainer Brian Kan by 44 votes to 16. He was formerly vice-chairman of the North District Council, and in the 7th council he chairs the Planning, Development and Housing Committee, dealing with planning, housing and new-town development in the North District. In the 2016 Legislative Council election he considered forming a rural-camp political party; the plan did not materialise and he stood as an independent in the New Territories East geographical constituency, receiving 6,720 votes and losing. During an election forum he accused a member of the DAB team of Chan Hak-kan of illegal small-house dealings. The Sheung Shui Rural Committee is one of the four rural committees in the North District, alongside Fanling, Sha Tau Kok and Ta Kwu Ling. Under the District Councils Ordinance, each of the nine New Territories district councils has ex officio seats filled by rural committee chairmen, and Hau took office on 1 January 2024 with the 7th council. The North District Council has 24 members.