Preceded by Andrew Cheng Succeeded by Cheung Kwok-che Constituency Social Welfare Political party Labour Party | Preceded by Law Chi-kwong Role Politician Name Fernando Cheung | |
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Born 23 February 1957 (age 67)
Macau ( 1957-02-23 ) Alma mater St. Paul's College
Hong Kong Baptist University (BSocSc)
California State University (MSW)
University of California, Berkeley, (Ph.D) Children Vincent Cheung, Valerie Cheung, Vivian Cheung Education California State University, Fresno | ||
Other political
affiliations Civic Party (2006–10) Constituency New Territories East | ||
Hong Kong's Future in a Changing Asia - Fernando Cheung presentation
Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (張超雄; born 23 February 1957, in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, he is a member of the Legislative Council.
Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He served as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council (屋崙華人服務社).
After he moved back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002. He had close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004. He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong citizens instead.
Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/08. After three members of the democratic camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council's constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said,
He has also said that if the motion cannot be passed, he would hold an unofficial referendum.
His paternal grandmother is a native of Peru.