Lau Chin-shek
| Lau Chin-shek 劉千石 |
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Lau Chin-shek
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| Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
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In office 1 October 1991 – December 1994 |
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| Succeeded by | Lee Cheuk-yan |
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In office 1 October 1995 – 30 June 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Lee Cheuk-yan |
| Succeeded by | Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council |
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In office 1 July 1998 – 30 September 2008 |
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| Preceded by | New legislature |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Wong Yuk-man |
| Personal details | |
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September 12, 1944 Guangzhou, Guangdong |
| Nationality | Hong Kong |
| Political party |
Democratic Party(1994–2000) Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions |
| Religion | Christianity |
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉千石 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 刘千石 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Qiānshí |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Làuh Chīn sehk |
| Jyutping | Lau4 Chin1 shek6 |
Lau Chin-shek (born 12 September 1944 in Guangzhou, Guangdong with family root in Shunde, Guangdong) is the President of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and a vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee. He was born in Guangzhou and had a secondary school education. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1991 to 2008.
Lau smuggled from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in 1960. Since the 1980s, he has been a labour activist, working to help factory workers in Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan, where working conditions were poor.
During the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Lau and other pro-democracy activists expressed sympathy and support to the student demonstrators who had gathered at Tiananmen Square. He and others also founded The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, which organises the anniversary commemoration of the 1989 protests.
In 1990, Lau and other labour activists, including Lee Cheuk Yan, established the 160,000-strong Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. Lau ran in the Hong Kong legislative elections in 1991, and was elected. Lau was re-elected four times.
Lau was a lawmaker continuously from 1991 to 2008, except he resigned in 1994 but elected again in 1995, a brief period during 1997 and 1998 when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China, and the Legislative Council temporarily became a Provisional Legislative Council which was filled with people indirectly hand picked by Beijing.
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