Hong Kong Civic Association
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Hongkong Civic Association
香港公民協會 |
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| Life President | Hilton Cheong-Leen |
| Chairman | Lam Kwok-wah |
| Founded | 26 October 1954 |
| Ideology |
Centrism Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-Beijing camp |
| Colours | Green |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港公民協會 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 香港公民协会 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hēung góng gūng màhn hip wuih |
| Jyutping | Hoeng1 gong2 gung1 man4 hip3 wui6 |
The Hongkong Civic Association (Chinese: 香港公民協會) is a Hong Kong political group. Established in 1954, the Civic Association is one of the oldest existing political organisations in Hong Kong. Together with the Reform Club of Hong Kong, they were the two dominant groups in the Urban Council elections before the 1980s.
Members mostly consisting of teachers and some professionals and businessmen, the Civic Association was seen as a predominantly Chinese, centrist and conservative political group compared to the Reform Club of Hong Kong, its counterpart in the Urban Council before the 1980s. At its foundation, the objectives of the associations were:
The Civic Association claimed to promote "stability, prosperity and progress" in its electoral slogan. It focused more on social and livelihood issues such as cost of living the adequacy of hospitals and rentals.
The association also drew attention to constitutional issues, demanding greater power of the Urban Council in education and health matters, and also elected representatives in the Legislative Council and Executive Council. However the association refrained from calling for self-government and independence, a political stance it regarded as the major demarcation between the association and the radical groups, such as the United Nations Association of Hong Kong. it argued that any "radical change" would threaten Hong Kong's stability.
The Civic Association was founded on 26 October 1954 in Hong Kong by Brother Brigant Cassian, who was a French-born religious educator and also the founder of the Hong Kong Teachers' Association. It was one of the civil organisations to strive for constitutional reform as proposed by the then Governor Mark Aitchison Young in 1946. It sent the petition endorsed by 406 organisations with half a million affiliated members. It began to contest in the Urban Council since the 1956 Urban Council election. They included political reform in their campaign platform and won 2 of the 6 seats. In the 1950s, its representation increased from two to eight seats in the Urban Council. After Cassian died in 1957 and three conservative expatriate leaders resigned in 1959, Hilton Cheong-Leen became the head of the association.
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