許長青

English

Hui Cheung-ching was a Hong Kong businessman and former legislator, born in Puning, Guangdong on 4 September 1942. After his education he went into business, working in import and export trade and serving as a company chairman, building extensive experience in export trade, trade promotion and the business environment. He was a vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance, a pro-establishment business grouping active in Hong Kong around the time of the handover, and took a long part in its affairs and in external trade matters. In 1998 he was elected to the first Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Import and Export functional constituency, serving from July 1998 to June 2000; he was returned again in 2000 for the second Legislative Council and served until September 2004. In the council he spoke for the import and export sector, focusing on trade policy, the operation of small and medium-sized enterprises and Hong Kong's trade with the mainland and overseas, and gave views on related commercial legislation and policy as well as on economic cooperation arrangements between the mainland and Hong Kong. Pragmatic in style, he was a representative figure in the import and export trade. He died of illness in January 2005 at the age of 62. Shortly before his death, the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance to which he belonged won no seat in the 2004 Legislative Council election, and the group later merged with the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong in 2005 to form the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.