Jackie Chan Chai-keung (; born 7 November 1938) is a former member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong and Mong Kok District Board (now
Yau Tsim Mong District Council).
Biography
Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1938. He graduated from the
Queen Elizabeth School and continued his study in civil engineering at the
University of New South Wales in
Australia
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. He is the member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers in England,
Institution of Engineers in Australia and
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
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. He set up his own firm, Chan Chai Keung Architect & Engineer Co.
He was first elected to the Mong Kok District Board in the
first District Board election in 1982 and served in the board until it being merged into the Yau Ma Tei District Board in the
1994 election where he failed to retain his seat in
Mong Kok South to Chow Chun-fai by 688 to 1,218 votes.
He won a seat in the
first Legislative Council indirect election from the South Kowloon
electoral college consisting of members of the Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei District Board. He was against the government's ''
White Paper: The Development of Representative Government: The Way Forward'' which concludes that direct elections to the Legislative Council would not be carried out in 1988 "betrays and intentionally misrepresents the wish of the majority of Hong Kong residents".
References
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1938 births
Living people
District councillors of Mong Kok District
University of New South Wales alumni
Hong Kong civil engineers
Progressive Hong Kong Society politicians
Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong politicians
HK LegCo Members 1985–1988