13 Facts About Cheng Hon-kwan

Cheng Hon-kwan is a Hong Kong engineer and politician.

Cheng Hon-kwan was the member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 1980s and was chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Authority from 2000 to 2002.

Cheng Hon-kwan received Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Tianjin University in 1948 and moved to Hong Kong.

Cheng Hon-kwan joined the Hong Kong government as an assistant structural engineer to the architectural office of the Public Works Department in 1953.

Cheng Hon-kwan subsequently studied abroad in England and graduated with the Diploma of Imperial College in Concrete Structures and Technology from the Imperial College London in 1964.

Cheng Hon-kwan returned to Hong Kong and became the chief structural engineer of the Buildings Ordinance Office of the Public Works Department by 1965.

Cheng Hon-kwan is the fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers in the United Kingdom, American Society of Civil Engineers, and member of the Association of Consulting Engineers in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Cheng Hon-kwan had been appointed to many public positions, including member of Land and Building Advisory Committee, Appeal Tribunal, Committee of Review Panel, Engineering Advisory Committee of the University of Hong Kong, board of directors of the Chinese YMCA and board of governors of the Hong Kong Bible Society.

Cheng Hon-kwan became one of the first elected members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong when the indirect elections were introduced in 1985, in which he was elected to the council in 1985 and 1988 through the Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning functional constituency elected by engineers architects, surveyors and urban planners.

Cheng Hon-kwan remained active in the public arena after 1997.

Cheng Hon-kwan was appointed chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Authority from 2000 to 2003.

Cheng Hon-kwan was chairman of the Council of the City University of Hong Kong and the Open University of Hong Kong, as well as vice-chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Cheng Hon-kwan serves on the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee.