Leung Kwok-hung

Quick Facts

Full Name	Leung Kwok-hung
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1956(1956-03-27)
Age	68
Country	Hong Kong
Horoscope	Pisces

Leung Kwok-hung Biography

Leung Kwok-hung is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 27, 1956 in Hong Kong. Leung was born in Hong Kong on 27 March 1956 to an immigrant family hailing from Guangdong Province. He was born in Shau Kei Wan and later moved to Chai Wan Estate. After his father died at the age of six, Leung was raised by a single family. His mother was an amah from a British family. Leung lived with seven siblings in Shau Kei Wan.

From 1981 to 1986, he was a contractor after his release. Leung was an overnight vehicle cleaner for Kowloon Motor Bus in 1986. After the Revolutionary Marxist League disbanded, Leung formed the April Fifth Action. This group is known for their aggressive and civil disobedience-style protests against the governments in China and Hong Kong at celebrations and visits by state leaders. Often, they are confronted with the police of Hong Kong. As their signature protest prop, they usually use a coffin. Leung was a supporter of the Tiananmen protest of 1989. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China.

He has been briefly jailed several times for offences such as shouting from Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) public viewing gallery, burning the national flag of the People’s Republic of China and forcibly breaking into an opposition political event. In 2000, he and Koo Sze-yiu were prosecuted for disrupting a LegCo meeting and were later jailed for 14 days, becoming the first dissents to be jailed after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Before that he had been charged for 14 times, 11 of which were convicted.

Leung first contested in the Legislative Council election in 2000, where he ran in the New Territories East. He received 18,235 votes, about six percent of the total vote share and was not elected. On 1 July 2003 the unpopular Tung Chee-hwa administration attracted more than 500,000 people marched in the streets. The further antagonism towards the government helped further boost the popularity of pro-democracy activists including Leung Kwok-hung. In the 2003 District Council election, Leung challenged the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) legislator Choy So-yuk’s seat in the Kam Ping constituency which was seen as pro-Beijing traditional stronghold. He called out the DAB as the “loyalist party” and received 1,149, only 284 short to defeat Choy.

He co-founded the Revolutionary Marxist League in 1975. This Trotskyist vanguard political party was where he began to take part in political actions. He was also arrested several times for his support of the 1976 April Fifth Tiananmen Incident, and the Chinese democracy movement. In 1979, he was arrested for protesting for Yau Ma Tei’s boat people. He was later charged with “unlawful assembly” and sentenced to a month in prison for protests at Victoria Park.

Leung Kwok-hung Net Worth

Leung Kwok-hung is one of the richest Politician from Hong Kong. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leung Kwok-hung 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Leung Kwok hung (Chinese Liang Guo Xiong – born 27 March 1956) is a Hong Kong politician, and social activist. He represented the New Territories East on the Legislative Council. He was a Trotskyist from his youth and was the founder of the Revolutionary Marxist League. His long hair and Che Guevara shirt made him a political icon. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 2004, but he did not get the chance to wear it. He co-founded the League of Social Democrats in 2006 and was its chairman from 2012 to 2016.

Leung attended the Clementi Secondary school. Leung attributes his political awakening to the Cultural Revolution, the 1967 Hong Kong Riots and participation in the “Maoist student movements”. His mother and he were both members of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, a left-leaning pro- communist labour organization at the time. After the defeat of Lin Biao, the Gang of Four, which decimated the Maoist ideologylism, Leung began to reflect his political beliefs and began to explore Trotskyism, under the influence of social activists like Ng Chungyin.

Leung has not had a Home Return Permit since 1989, after the Tiananmen Massacre, having been denied one by the Chinese authorities, but he was able to visit mainland China once in the company of his mother in about 2003. He was also able to visit mainland China in 2005, on an invitation to Hong Kong legislators, including pan-democrats, to visit Guangdong. Some of the other pan-democrat legislators also had not had an individual permit since 1989.

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On 4 July 2008 Leung was scheduled to visit areas in Sichuan damaged by the Sichuan earthquake as part of a 20-member delegation. Leung’s travel permit application was rejected at the last minute on suspicions he would protest in China during the three-day trip. Sichuan officials claimed to have seen Internet reports saying Leung planned to do something not relevant to the purpose of the trip. Rita Fan confirmed those were the grounds of denial. Leung responded saying: “It’s so ironic. People said the Olympic Games will make China more open up. I think it’s going backward.”

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Leung Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hong Kong. Leung Kwok-hung celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

In the 2011 District Council elections, LSD chairman Andrew To refused to field candidates against the Democrats and former chairman Wong Yuk-man and legislator Albert Chan quit the party with hundreds party members over the disagreement as well as the intra-party factional struggles. Leung, being the only legislator left in the party refused to follow Wong and Chan. Leung subsequently took over as party chairman after To resigned when he lost his seat in the District Council elections. Leung himself also ran in the election against DAB legislator Ip Kwok-him in his stronghold Kwun Lung but lost with a wide margin of 1,800 votes.