Thomas Pang Explained

Thomas Pang Cheung-wai
Native Name Lang:zh-hk
Honorific-Suffix:SBS, JP
Office:Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Term Start:19 April 2013
Predecessor:Lau Kong-wah
1Blankname:Chairman
1Namedata:Tam Yiu-chung
Starry Lee
Office1:Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Term Start1:February 2013
1Blankname1:Chairman
1Namedata1:Yu Zhengsheng
Office2:Member of the Sha Tin District Council
Constituency2:Sui Wo
Term Start2:1 January 2000
Term End2:31 December 2019
Predecessor2:New constituency
Successor2:Mak Tsz-kin
Constituency3:Fo Tan
Term Start3:1 April 1991
Term End3:30 June 1997
Successor3:Porinda Liu
Office4:Member of the Regional Council
Constituency4:Sha Tin North
Term Start4:1 April 1995
Term End4:30 June 1997
Party:Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)
Occupation:Politician

Thomas Pang Cheung-wai, SBS, JP (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.[1] 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.

Notes and References

  1. News: Young Hong Kong blood among new CPPCC appointees. Tony. Cheung. 2 February 2013. South China Morning Post.