黃定光

English

Wong Ting-kwong, GBS, JP, was born in Hong Kong on 12 September 1949, with ancestral roots in Dongguan, Guangdong. Nicknamed 'Elephant Brother', he is a member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). He studied at Heung To Middle School, from Primary One to Form Five, and at Guangzhou No. 6 Middle School, going to the mainland in 1965. During the Cultural Revolution, from 1968 to 1972, he was sent to Boluo County in Guangdong to farm, then worked in a grain-processing plant and a sugar factory, and in 1969 was assigned to teach science at a secondary school, serving as a Form Two class teacher and teaching physics, chemistry and English. In 1972 he returned to Hong Kong to help run his father's business; his father Wong Pui-kau was a co-founder of the Chung Kin national-goods store. In September 2004 he was returned uncontested for the Import and Export functional constituency, succeeding Hui Cheung-ching, and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star the same year. He was again returned unopposed in 2008, 2012 and 2016, serving until 31 December 2021, a tenure of seventeen years, when his seat passed to Kennedy Wong. His wife is Lam Suk-yee, former president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions. His public posts have included vice-president of the Chinese Importers' and Exporters' Association, a director of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Po Leung Kuk advisory board and honorary president of a Dongguan district association. Among the episodes best known to the public were his 2010 criticism of the radio host Poon Siu-to, and repeated claims that he dozed off or trimmed his nails during meetings.