Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong | |
Native Name: | 香港工商專業聯會 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Predecessor: | Business and Professional Group of the Basic Law Consultative Committee |
Founder: | Vincent Lo |
Type: | Public policy think tank |
Headquarters: | Suite 3706, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong |
Region Served: | Hong Kong |
Leader Title: | President |
Leader Name: | Peter Wong |
Leader Title2: | Chairman |
Leader Name2: | Victor Apps |
Parent Organisation: | , if one --> |
The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong (abbreviated 工商專聯; BPF) is a non-partisan think tank in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The mission BPF is:[1]
The BPF was founded in 1990 as a successor to the "Group of 89 members" of the Basic Law Consultative and Drafting Committees,[1] a group of conservative business and professional leaders which opposed to faster pace of democraticsation. It maintained close relationship with other parties of business background, especially the Liberal Party.[2]
Led by the pro-Beijing tycoon Vincent Lo, the Federation was against the then Governor Chris Patten's proposal of constitutional reforms for the Legislative Council which Beijing strongly opposed.[3]