Ng Chau-pei

Stanley Ng Chau-pei (born February 1970) is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and trade unionist and the incumbent President and former Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the largest trade union in Hong Kong, and also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress.

Stanley Ng Chau-pei
吳秋北
Ng at the May 1 march in 2011
President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 April 2018
Preceded by	Lam Shuk-yee
Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
In office 20 April 2009 – 16 April 2018
Preceded by	Wong Kwok-kin
Succeeded by	Wong Kwok
Personal details
Born	February 1970 (age 50) Jinjiang, Fujian, China
Political party	Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
Alma mater	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Occupation	Trade unionist

Biography

He was born in February 1970 with his family root in Fujian. He is educated at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a member of the Hong Kong Clerical and Professional Employees General Union and its President. Through the General Union he has become the core member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) after he joined in 1997 and became the Chairman of the HKFTU. He is also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]

In the 2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, he was elected through the Labour Subsector as the member of the HKFTU. The 800-member election committee was responsible for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election in which Beijing's favourite Donald Tsang won against Alan Leong from the pan-democracy camp.

He was appointed by the Hong Kong government to many public positions such as the Employee's Compensation Insurances Levies Management Board from 2013, the Labour Advisory Board from 2011, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Appeal Board from 2012 to 2014, the Standard Working Hours Committee since 2013.[2] He had also been a part-time member of the government's Central Policy Unit.[1]

Ng was also one of initiators of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, a counter political alliance orchestrated by Beijing against the Occupy Central with Love and Peace launched by the pan-democrats to pressure Beijing to implement genuine democracy. He organised the anti-"Occupy" rally on 17 August 2014.[3]

In April 2018, he succeeded Lam Shuk-yee to be the President of the FTU with Vice President Wong Kwok replaced him as the Chairman.[4]

Controversies

Ng slammed the decision of Court of Final Appeal in September 2018 to free the group of 13 activists, who had each received jail sentences of up to 13 months from a lower court for unlawful assembly outside the Legislative Council Complex on 13 June 2014. "How could this be an act of loving and protecting young people? [The judges] are killing them!" Ng said as he accused the judges "sinners of society". Ng's remarks drew criticism from the pro-democrats, as well as Chief Executive Carrie Lam which said his comments as "unacceptable".[5]

During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Ng slammed Li Ka Shing with coarse Cantonese slang, depicted Li "cockroach" king in a post on social media.[6][7][8] "Cockroach" is frequently being used by the police in Hong Kong as a slur for protestors.[9]

References

1. "吳秋北". Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
2. "Ng, Chau Pei 吳秋北". Webb-site Who's Who. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
3. Chan, Kahon (19 August 2014). "Organizers hail success of anti-'Occupy' rally".
4. "政Whats噏：吳秋北膺工聯會會長　黃國任理事長". on.cc. 16 April 2018.
5. "Pro-Beijing politician's remarks calling Hong Kong judges 'sinners of society' for freeing activists earn rebuke from city leader Carrie Lam". South China Morning Post. 11 September 2018.
6. "Now Stanley Ng Chau-pei who is Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress call Li Ka Shing "cockroach"". web.archive.org. 15 September 2019. Archived from the original on 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
7. "Hong Kong's 'Superman' Li Ka-shing comes under fire". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
8. "Li Ka-shing is still one step ahead of Hong Kong's tycoons". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
9. Mahtani, Shibani; McLaughlin, Timothy. "'Dogs' vs. 'cockroaches': On Hong Kong streets, insults take a dangerous turn". Washington Post. Retrieved 25 November 2019.

Political offices
Preceded by Wong Kwok-kin	Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions 2009–2018	Succeeded by Wong Kwok
Preceded by Lam Shuk-yee	President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions 2018–present	Incumbent