HK First
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HK First
香港本土 |
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| Leader |
Claudia Mo Gary Fan |
| Founded | 31 January 2013 |
| Ideology |
Liberalism (Hong Kong) Localism |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| Colours | Gold/Brown |
| Legislative Council |
1 / 70
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| District Councils |
1 / 458
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| Website | |
| www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港本土 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hēung góng bún tóu |
| Jyutping | Hoeng1 gong2 bun2 tou2 |
HK First (Chinese: 香港本土) is a localist group set up in 2013 in Hong Kong. Its current sole representative in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong is Claudia Mo, former pan-democratic Civic Party member. It was founded in 2013 by two pro-democracy legislators Claudia Mo and Gary Fan of Neo Democrats to "defend the city's culture from 'mainlandisation'".
The group was formed on 31 January 2013 by the two pan-democratic legislators, Claudia Mo of the Civic Party and Gary Fan of Neo Democrats who shared sympathy with the growing localist sentiment in Hong Kong. It claims to "help safeguard not only Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, but also its lifestyle as guaranteed unchanged for 50 years under one country, two systems and stipulated in the Basic Law".
It concerns the cultural aspects of the Hong Kong lifestyle, including the use of traditional Chinese characters, Cantonese and traditional phonetic translation between English and Cantonese, in which many localists deemed to be under "invasion" of the mainland China's simplified Chinese, Mandarin Chinese and the its phonetic translation. It also opposed the influxes of mainland tourists, grey goods traders, Mainland schools children who were seen as taken away the quota of the local students, panic-buying of baby formula and various social issues in related to Hong Kong–Mainland conflict. Despite its localist agenda, the group does not advocate for Hong Kong independence as compared to many other localists. It opposed the government's Individual Visit Scheme to limit the number of mainland tourists. They co-sponsored a controversial ad which claimed that reducing immigration would help the people of Hong Kong to get to the bottom of the housing problem, while rejecting claims of bias or discrimination against mainlanders, despite condemnation from the Equal Opportunities Commission. Fan later introduced a motion on adhering to the need to "put Hong Kong people first" in formulating policies, but the motion was ultimately defeated.
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