單仲偕

English

Sin Chung-kai was born in Hong Kong on 15 June 1960, with family roots in Dongguan, Guangdong, and holds the Silver Bauhinia Star and the rank of Justice of the Peace. Nicknamed IT Kai for his technology background and Single Chicken by local residents, he grew up in the Kwai Chung Estate resettlement area, attended the rooftop S.K.H. Chu Yan Primary School and S.K.H. Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School, read botany with a minor in computer science at the University of Hong Kong from 1978 to 1982 and took an MBA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the mid-1990s. A fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society, he worked as a deputy manager in the information-technology department of HSBC until 2011. First elected to the Kwai Tsing District Council in 1985 with more than 3,800 votes, he was returned four times until 2003 and chaired the council from 1994 to 1999, also serving on the Regional Council. In 1995 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the New Territories South constituency. After the handover he contested the Information Technology functional constituency from 1998 and held the seat until 2008, when he did not seek re-election and Paul Tan took the seat; he was elected a Democratic Party vice-chairman in December 2008 and re-elected in 2010. In 2012 he switched to the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency and returned to the council with more than 40,000 votes, serving until 2016, and late that year he stood in the party's leadership election and lost narrowly. He won the Wah Lai seat on the Kwai Tsing District Council in 2019 and was returned unopposed as its chairman in January 2020. He has focused on information-technology policy, internet freedom and community livelihood issues, and moved to the United States after 2021.