The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong (, abbreviated 工商專聯; BPF) is a non-partisan

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in the

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

Special Administrative Region of the

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Mission

The mission BPF is: * to help enhance the competitiveness, long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong; * to promote the continuous development of Hong Kong as a free, capitalist and international financial and business centre; * to conduct in-depth studies on issues of strategic importance to Hong Kong's economic, social and political development; and * to promote the importance of strong economic cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

History

The BPF was founded in 1990 as a successor to the "

Group of 89 The Group of 89 or Business and Professional Group of the Basic Law Consultative Committee was a conservative political pressure group formed by the conservative business and professional elites led by tycoon Vincent Lo in the Hong Kong Basic Law ...

members" of the Basic Law Consultative and Drafting Committees, 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

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. Led by the

pro-Beijing The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp, pro-government camp or pro-China camp refers to a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing central government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) t ...

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.

References

External links

BPF official website
{{Hong Kong political parties Non-profit organisations based in Hong Kong Political and economic think tanks based in Hong Kong Think tanks established in 1990 1990 establishments in Hong Kong Politics of Hong Kong