Gary Fan
| Gary Fan Kwok-wai | |
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| 范國威 | |
Gary Fan in 2015
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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In office 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Seat Created |
| Succeeded by | Eunice Yung |
| Constituency | New Territories East |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 October 1966 Hong Kong |
| Political party | Neo Democrats (since 2010) |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic Party (1996–2010) The Frontier (1996–97) Social Democratic Forum (2000–02) |
| Alma mater |
Academy of Art University San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | Legislative Councillor District Councillor |
| Website | garyfan |
| Gary Fan | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 范國威 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 范国威 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Fàn Guówēi |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Faan6 Gwok3wai1 |
Gary Fan Kwok-wai (born 30 October 1966) is a former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council and current member of the Sai Kung District Council in Hong Kong.
Of Hakka ancestry, Gary Fan is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
Fan joined the Democratic Party after returning to Hong Kong. Fan was a leading member of the Democratic Party, including membership of the standing committee of its central committee. He and vice-chairman Chan King-ming, who both belonged to the Reformist faction, were suspected of involving in spying activities of China in an investigation by the Mainstream faction.
Fan opposed to the Democratic party's stance on the Five Constituencies Referendum movement and support of the constitutional reform package in 2010. He and Chan King-ming as well as other Reformists quit the Democratic Party in December 2010. Before that they had already formed the Neo Democrats political grouping on 2 October 2010. He held the position of one of its four convenors from 2010 to 2012.
In the 2012 LegCo elections, Fan won a new seat in the New Territoires East geographical constituency created under the 2010 constitutional reform package.
Gary Fan has taken an anti-immigration stance in the Legislative Council, which was different from other pan-democrats who are considered friendly with the new arrivals. Fan has been frequently calling for the government to take back the approval rights on One-way Permits from Chinese authorities and to reduce the quota of such permits. Fan also refers to immigrants from mainland China and the quota of 150 daily permits as "the root of the housing problem".
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