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Hong Kong politician
Thomas Pang Cheung-waiSBS, JP
彭長緯
Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 April 2013
ChairmanTam Yiu-chung
Starry Lee
Preceded byLau Kong-wah
Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 2013
ChairmanYu Zhengsheng
Member of the Sha Tin District Council
In office
1 January 2000 – 31 December 2019
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byMak Tsz-kin
ConstituencySui Wo
In office
1 April 1991 – 30 June 1997
Succeeded byPorinda Liu
ConstituencyFo Tan
Member of the Regional Council
In office
1 April 1995 – 30 June 1997
ConstituencySha Tin North
Personal details
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Political partyDemocratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)
OccupationPolitician

Thomas Pang Cheung-wai, SBS, JP (Chinese: 彭長緯, born 1954) is the current vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), the largest pro-Beijing party in Hong Kong.

Career

Pang has been serving in the Sha Tin District for many years. He was first elected to the Sha Tin District Board in the 1991 District Board elections in the Fo Tan constituency. He subsequently joined the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and won a seat in the Regional Council in the 1995 municipal elections. After the establishment of the Special Administrative Region, he was the member of the Provisional Sha Tin District Board and Provisional Regional Council until the Regional Council was abolished in 1999. In 1998 Legislative Council elections, he failed to get a seat in the Election Committee constituency. In 2000 Legislative Council elections, he ran against Liberal Party's Miriam Lau in the Transport functional constituency but was defeated.

Since the 1999 District Council elections, he has been representing the Sui Wo constituency and is the vice-chairman of the Sha Tin District Council. Through the New Territories District Councils Subsector, he has been member of the Election Committee since 2000.

Pang has been the secretary general of the DAB. In 2013, he became the delegate to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top national consultative body. and also the vice-chairman of the DAB.

Pang has also been appointed to various public positions including member of the Appeal Board on Closure Orders (Immediate Health Hazard), Environmental Campaign Committee, Hospital Authority New Territories Regional Advisory Committee, Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) Observers, and Municipal Services Appeals Board.

He was made Justice of the Peace on 1 July 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2008.

References

  1. Cheung, Tony (2 February 2013). "Young Hong Kong blood among new CPPCC appointees". South China Morning Post.
Political offices
New constituency Member of Sha Tin District Board
Representative for Fo Tan
1991–1997 		Council abolished
New constituency Member of Sha Tin District Council
Representative for Sui Wo
2000–2019 		Succeeded byMak Tsz-kin
New title Vice-Chairman of Sha Tin District Council
2000–2019 		Incumbent
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Preceded byLau Kong-wah Vice Chairman of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
2013–present
Served alongside: Ann Chiang, Starry Lee, Horace Cheung, Chan Yung 		Incumbent
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