周天意

English

Chow Tin-yi (Zinnie Chow) is an appointed member of the North District Council for the seventh term (2024–2027). She reports her occupation as founder of a Greater Bay Area start-up base and is affiliated with the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA). She has long run a business in Qianhai, Shenzhen, and is the founder of the Aditi accelerator at the Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub, helping young people from Hong Kong and Macao start businesses and find work in the Greater Bay Area. She has said that she invested and started businesses on the mainland for nearly a decade, moving from not speaking Putonghua to gradually mastering the mainland market, and that she wants to share the detours and experience she gained with those who follow. The accelerator has also built a talent platform under the Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme, working with Shenzhen and Hong Kong authorities to promote policies for attracting talent; it has served more than 3,000 Hong Kong young people and helped over 100 settle in Qianhai. In 2024 she received the Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service from Chief Executive John Lee, in recognition of her contribution to helping Hong Kong young people start businesses and work in the Greater Bay Area. Within the council she serves on the Community Participation and Culture and Recreation Committee and the Development Planning and Housing Committee, and is a member of the task force on boosting the local economy and the building management working group, advising on culture and recreation, planning and housing, the local economy and building management; her ward office is at Tin Ping Estate, Sheung Shui. After the 2023 reform of the District Council system she was appointed by the Chief Executive and took office on 1 January 2024. The North District Council has 24 members and is chaired by the District Officer.