陳榮燦

English

Chan Wing-chun is a Hong Kong trade unionist from the catering trade and a former member of the Legislative Council, who held leadership posts in the food and beverage industry and in the labour movement for many years. Of Jiangmen origin in Guangdong, he is highly regarded in the trade and has served as honorary president of the Catering Workers' General Union, honorary president of the Hong Kong Catering Management Association, and permanent honorary president of the Hong Kong Political, Economic and Cultural Society. He worked early on in the hotel and catering business and threw himself into the union movement, taking an interest in workers' rights, vocational training and industry development, and winning respect across the trade. In 1995 he was elected to the Legislative Council for the hotel and catering functional constituency, serving until 1997, and during the transition he was returned to the Provisional Legislative Council. In the 1998 election for the first Legislative Council he switched to the labour functional constituency, serving until 2000. When the first HKSAR government was formed in 1997 he was also a member of the Selection Committee. In and out of the council he focused on labour rights, occupational safety and the treatment of catering workers. A long-standing supporter of vocational education, he was appointed to the Training Committee of the Chinese Cuisine Training Institute in 2000, served as its vice-chairman from 2004 to 2007 and later as an adviser, and from 2000 convened its skills-testing working group; he also supported the Vocational Training Council's catering training work and lent his professional advice to the institute's course development. He worked hard to promote professional exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong, helping the institute run a Chinese chef skills test with Guangdong authorities and leading a team to the Fifth China World Cuisine Competition in Guangzhou in 2004, where it won several awards. He received the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2005 and was made an honorary fellow of the Vocational Training Council in 2015.