Francis Yuan-hao Tien CBE, LLD, DSoSc, JP was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and the unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
17 Facts About Francis Tien
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Francis Tien was studied at a junior school in Suzhou and mechanical engineering at the Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education in Shanghai and graduate in 1942.
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Francis Tien went to Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War and worked at power stations.
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Francis Tien trained at Metropolitan-Vickers in Manchester and took a course at the Manchester College of Technology before he moved to Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party took over the Mainland.
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Francis Tien turned to textile industry after the steel lost its immediate appeal at the time when textiles were the main sources of the Hong Kong exports.
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Francis Tien formed his own company the Manhattan Garments and concentrated on making and design of trousers and became a Hong Kong super-salesman journeyed all over the world to promote Hong Kong textile products.
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Between 1966 and 1977, Francis Tien went to Canada and the United States every year, Switzerland four times and Sweden and the European Economic Community on many occasions for the Hong Kong Government Textile Delegations.
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Francis Tien was extremely active in manpower training and industry education, piloting through such ventures as the apprenticeship training scheme and the Clothing Industry Training Centre at Kwai Chung.
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Francis Tien was appointed chairman of the Clothing Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee, the predecessor of the Hong Kong Training Council.
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Francis Tien was the member of the University Council of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Francis Tien married to Yung Chia-weng and had two sons who are both Legislative Council members.
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The elder son James Francis Tien Pei-chun followed his father's footstep as member of the Legislative Council appointed in 1988.
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The younger son Michael Francis Tien Puk-sun founded the G2000 clothing retail chain and was the chairman of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation.
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Francis Tien was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1967 and received Member and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1971 and 1973 respectively.
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Francis Tien was rewarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire later on and Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
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Francis Tien became the honorary distinguished citizen of the State of Washington, United States in 1978.
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Francis Tien received the honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws by the University of Hong Kong in 1971 and Doctor of Social Science by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1983 for his education to commerce, industry and government and for his dedication to the promotion of Hong Kong's staple commodity.