12 Facts About Cheung Yin-tung

Cheung Yin-tung is the former secretary and treasurer of the Democratic Party and former member of the Yuen Long District Council.

Cheung Yin-tung was a New Territories indigenous resident born in Yuen Long in 1964.

Cheung Yin-tung participated in student activism when he was younger and was chairman of the 32nd standing committee of the Hong Kong Federation of Students and led protests in support of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing.

Cheung Yin-tung was invited by Meeting Point and United Democrats of Hong Kong legislator Ng Ming-yum to join the United Democrats, which later transformed into the Democratic Party.

Cheung Yin-tung was elected to the Yuen Long District Board in 1991 but was defeated by conservative Leung Che-cheung in Yiu Yau with a large margin in the 1994 re-election.

Cheung Yin-tung participated in the 1995 Regional Council election, running against Leung Che-cheung again but lost to Leung in a margin of 70 votes.

Cheung Yin-tung ran again in 2008 Legislative Council election, leading the third ticket for the Democratic Party along with Albert Ho and Lee Wing-tat.

Cheung Yin-tung's ticket received 10,069 votes and was not elected.

Cheung Yin-tung had been the Democratic Party secretary two terms, from 1998 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2014 and the party treasurer from 2006 to 2008.

Cheung Yin-tung said he would hope there would be more formal liaison with mainland authorities.

Cheung Yin-tung was responsible for the intra-party investigation over the allegation of some senior members were involved in spying activities of China in 2006, being the convenor of the five-member committee.

On 23 January 2015 after the party leadership election, Cheung Yin-tung resigned as secretary and his position on the Central Committee with his disciple Kwong Chun-yu.