Ip Kwok-him

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ip Kwok-him
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1951(1951-11-08)
Age	73
Birthplace	Hong Kong
Country	People's Republic of China
Birth City	Hong Kong
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ip Kwok-him Biography

Ip Kwok-him is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 8, 1951 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. Ip was born in Hong Kong on 8 November 1951 to a driver father. His father came from Guangzhou before the Communist Party of China took over. He studied at the Hon Wah College, a leftist pro-Communist school in the Western District. He later graduated from the South China Normal University with a degree in Bachelor of Art in Geography. After he graduated, he returned to the Hon Wah College as a teacher where he taught for 20 years.

He first ran for office in the 1991 District Board elections, for the Central and Western District Board in the Kennedy Town West & Mount Davis. He was elected with incumbent Chan Tak-chor, receiving 2,942 votes and defeating incumbent Wong Sui-lai of the pro-democratic United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK).

In the 1994 District Board elections, he was re-elected in Kwun Lung and held the seat until he was defeated by legislator Cyd Ho Sau-lan of the pro- democratic The Frontier in the 2003 District Council elections when his party suffered a devastating defeat in the territory-wide local election.

He was first elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the last colonial legislative election in 1995 through the ten-seat Election Committee consisting of all District Board members. In 1996, he was appointed to the Beijing-controlled Provisional Legislative Council.

He became active in local politics in the mid-1980s when he became vice chairman of a research centre for the development of the Central and Western District, a supplementary member of the Central and Western District Board. He also co-founded the working committee on concerning the Hong Kong Basic Law with Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen, the chairman of the Central and Western District Board.

Ip Kwok-him Net Worth

Ip Kwok-him is one of the richest Politician from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ip Kwok-him 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ip Kwok-him, GBM, GBS, JP (Chinese: 葉國謙 ; born 8 November 1951) is an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, having been in the position since March 2016. He is also former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the District Council (First) functional constituency and Hong Kong delegate to the National People’s Congress and the former convenor of the caucus of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) in the Legislative Council.

During the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots, he was member of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle as a student of the Hon Wah College. He was sent to Macao by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) to learn about the December 3 Incident launched by the Macao leftists which successfully led to the concession from Portuguese colonial government.

He became a founding member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a flagship pro-Beijing party set up by a group of traditional leftists in 1992. He was a long-time chairman of the party, serving from 1998 to 2009.

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According to a chat record leaked to the South China Morning Post, Ip, as the convenor of the DAB caucus and the coordinator of the pro-Beijing camp, was responsible together with the Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang Yok- sing for the walk-out that resulted in a humiliating defeat of the pro-Beijing parties in the electoral reform voting at the Legislative Council in July 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Ip Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Ip Kwok-him celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.

He stepped down from the Legislative Council in 2016 and was succeeded by Lau Kwok-fan.