張永森

English

Ambrose Cheung Wing-sum is a Hong Kong solicitor, district councillor and former legislator, born in Hong Kong on 10 January 1951. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in social sciences, worked in banking, and went to London to study law, returning to practise in 1981 as a solicitor and company director. Deeply rooted in Sham Shui Po, he was appointed to the Sham Shui Po District Council in 1982 and has served the Mei Foo North area ever since, winning successive elections and also sitting on the Urban Council. In 1998 he was elected to the first Legislative Council for the Urban Council functional constituency, serving from July 1998 to December 1999, when he resigned his seat in protest at the government's abolition of the Urban Council and the Regional Council, an event that drew public attention. He has focused on municipal services, environmental hygiene, district facilities and residents' quality of life, and has worked at district level to improve estate conditions and community amenities; he also has experience in commercial and legal affairs. He was briefly a member of the Liberal Party before leaving it, and has long worked on district affairs as an independent, serving repeatedly as chairman of the Sham Shui Po District Council. Over the years he has built a strong district base in Sham Shui Po and Mei Foo, with close knowledge of housing, transport and community development issues there, and he has been awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star and the Medal of Honour and appointed a Justice of the Peace.