嚴剛

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Yim Kong is a Hong Kong businessman and legislator, born in May 1972, with a long career in shipping and ports and more than twenty years in the industry. He graduated in international trade from Xiamen University with a bachelor's degree in economics and later earned an MBA jointly run by the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands and Shanghai Maritime University. Early on he worked in shipping and logistics firms including Neptune Orient Lines, Swire Shipping and Shekou Container Terminals, gaining experience in maritime and port operations. In November 2021 he was appointed to the board of China Merchants Port Holdings, where he is now vice-chairman and a non-executive director and a member of its ESG committee; he is also vice-chairman of the Shenzhen-listed China Merchants Port Group and a member of its strategy and sustainable development committee. From 2019 to 2021 he was posted to Belarus as China Merchants Group's chief representative for Central Asia and the Baltic region and general manager of the China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park development company. Elected to the Seventh Legislative Council for the Commercial (Third) functional constituency in 2021, he took office in January 2022 and chaired the council's economic development panel. In the council he has focused on shipping, ports, logistics and economic development policy, arguing that Hong Kong should use its free port and international shipping centre status to develop higher-value maritime services. In the 2025 election he retained the Commercial (Third) seat and began the Eighth Legislative Council term in 2026.