Bowie Hau Chi-keung is a rural leader and businessman in Hong Kong.
15 Facts About Hau Chi-keung
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Hau Chi-keung is the current chairman of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee, ex officio executive committee member of the Heung Yee Kuk and ex officio member of the North District Council.
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Hau Chi-keung's father was a sailor and his mother was a farmer.
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Hau Chi-keung got a job as a dockworker when he was just 13 and was convicted of theft when he was 18.
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Hau Chi-keung travelled around Britain, the Netherlands and the United States for 10 years.
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Hau Chi-keung opened a Chinese restaurant in Chicago when he was 20 and later made his fortune by buying and selling restaurants.
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Hau Chi-keung returned to Hong Kong in the 1980s and started a business exporting goldfish and bloodworms which brought him HK$1 million per month.
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Hau Chi-keung had been the indigenous inhabitant representative of Ho Sheung Heung from 1999 until 2011, when he ran as a resident representative of the same village in the village representative election.
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Hau Chi-keung is a vociferous supporter of the government's controversial plans to establish a new town in northeast New Territories.
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Hau Chi-keung had declared repeatedly that even the Hau clan's ancestral hall could be sold for the right price.
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Hau Chi-keung dismisses farmers who refuse to vacate the land as unscrupulous squatters.
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Hau Chi-keung was sued by an 85-year-old farmer Lau Oi-kiu in 2015 of dumping waste on her farmland in Ho Sheung Heung to drive her off in 2009.
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Hau Chi-keung once called middle-aged professionals who have yet to own property as "useless basketcases" which caused public uproar.
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In 2015, Hau Chi-keung planned to form a new political party with other like-minded rural leaders independent from the Kuk for the 2016 Legislative Council election, due to his dissatisfaction over the Kuk's handling of the case of 11 Sha Tin villagers selling their own land rights under the Small House Policy for profit.
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Hau Chi-keung later quit the Liberal Party and ran as an independent in the election.