Fernando Cheung

Dr the Honourable Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung
張超雄
Cheung in 2013
Member of the Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2012
Preceded by	Andrew Cheng
Constituency	New Territories East
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2008
Preceded by	Law Chi-kwong
Succeeded by	Cheung Kwok-che
Constituency	Social Welfare
Personal details
Born	23 February 1957 Macau
Political party	Civic Party (2006–10) Labour Party (since 2011)
Alma mater	St. Paul's College Hong Kong Baptist University (BSocSc) California State University (MSW) University of California, Berkeley, (Ph.D)
Occupation	Lecturer Social worker

Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (張超雄; born 23 February 1957, in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, he is a member of the Legislative Council.

Cheung worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.^[1] He served as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council (屋崙華人服務社).

After he moved back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002. He had close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in June, 2004. He defeated Cheung Kwok-chu by a razor-thin 64 votes. After he won the election, he refused to visit Beijing on 30 September 2004 with nine other pro-democratic legislators; choosing to protest on that day for Hong Kong citizens instead.

Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Chinese government had warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators not to hold a referendum on universal suffrage for 2007/08. After three members of the democratic camp said they would not vote for his motion at the Legislative Council's constitutional affairs panel meeting, he said,

“

Perhaps the three councillors feared that a referendum was legally binding in nature and hence their reluctance to support my motion. I believe every democrat lawmaker still accepts the 2007-08 target. Voting against my motion does not mean they have abandoned hope of universal suffrage.

”

He has also said that if the motion cannot be passed, he would hold an unofficial referendum.

His paternal grandmother is a native of Peru.^[2]

External links

• Fernando Cheung's Website in HKPU

References

1. http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr12-16/cch.htm
2. Emily Kwong, 讓女兒放輕鬆 叫父親太沉重, 13 December 2008, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Page 07