Dr. Raymond Wu Wai-yung, GBS (15 May 1936 – 3 October 2006) was a Hong Kong

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politician and doctor. Wu was educated at the

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and graduated from the

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with the

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(BMMS) in 1963. He served as president of the

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from 1984 to 1988. In 1997, he was decorated the

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for his services to psychiatric rehabilitation in Hong Kong.

Role in Special Administrative Region

In the preparatory period for the

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and establishment of the Special Administrative Region (SAR), Wu was member of the

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and

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which were responsible for Hong Kong's mini-constitution in the Chinese rule after 1997. He was also the member of the

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. Wu was a Hong Kong delegate to the 9th and 10th

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(NPC) and member of the Basic Law Committee of the

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. Since the handover, Wu had served as member of the

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from 1997 to 2005 and the chairman of the Community Investment and Inclusion Fund Committee since its establishment in 2002. In his later life, Wu was famous for his hard line comments in support of the Beijing and Hong Kong governments and opposition to public campaigns advocating an early introduction of full democracy. He also argued that no guarantee

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could return a patriot to serve as the

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. He supported the move to seek Beijing's interpretation of the Hong Kong Basic Law in 2005 when a row emerged over the tenure of the successor to former Chief Executive

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. Wu died of

blood cancer Tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues (American English) or tumours of the haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues (British English) are tumors that affect the blood, bone marrow, lymph, and lymphatic system. Because these tissues are all ...

in Queen Mary Hospital on 3 October 2006 at the age of 69.

References

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