# Chan King-ming > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chan_King-ming > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chan_King-ming.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_King-ming > Source revision: 1301385329 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Hong Kong politician and academic For the swimmer, see [Chan King-ming (swimmer)](/source/Chan_King-ming_(swimmer)). This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Chan King-ming" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Chan King-ming as the convenor of the [Neo Democrats](/source/Neo_Democrats), 2015. In this [Chinese name](/source/Chinese_name), the [family name](/source/Chinese_surname) is *[Chan](/source/Chen_(surname))*. ‹[See RfD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_22#Template:Chinese)› Chan King-ming Traditional Chinese 陳竟明 Simplified Chinese 陈竟明 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Jìngmíng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Chan4 Ging2ming4 **Chan King-ming** is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He served as the vice-chairman of the [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(Hong_Kong)) of [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) from 2004 to 2006. He is also an associate professor in the department of biochemistry and Environmental Science Program of the [Chinese University of Hong Kong](/source/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong). ## Academic career Chan King-ming earned his [Bachelor of Science](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) and [Master of Philosophy](/source/Master_of_Philosophy) degrees at the [Chinese University of Hong Kong](/source/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong), and his doctoral degree from [Memorial University of Newfoundland](/source/Memorial_University_of_Newfoundland) in [St. John's](/source/St._John's%2C_Newfoundland), [Newfoundland](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador), Canada. He is now director of the Environmental Science Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches many different courses including Current Environmental Issues, Biochemical Toxicology and Introduction to Environmental Science in the Environmental Science Program and Molecular Endocrinology in the Biochemistry Programme. Trained as a molecular biologist for his PhD and post-doctoral research, Professor Chan's research interests include gene regulation, aquatic toxicology, marine biotechnology and environmental biochemistry and environmental policy. Prof. Chan is also chairman of CUTA (Chinese University Teachers Association), trustee of Shaw College Board of trustees, Member of Assembly of Fellows, Shaw College, and warden of Hostel 2, Shaw College. ## Political career Chan is a founding member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as chairman of the New Territories East Branch in 1999, and later became the party's minister of organization affairs and central committee member. He ran for the chairmanship election in 2004 but lost to [Lee Wing-tat](/source/Lee_Wing-tat). He was then elected vice-chairman of the party.[1] He also served as a part-time member of [Central Policy Unit](/source/Central_Policy_Unit) of the [Hong Kong Government](/source/Hong_Kong_Government) between 2004 and 2006. He ran again for the chairmanship in December 2006, but lost to [Albert Ho](/source/Albert_Ho). He did not seek to run for the vice-chairmanship in the 2006 election. In 2010, the Democratic Party decided to support the government's proposal of the political reform package to expand the numbers of legislative council members from 30 to 35 in Geographical Constituency and 30 to 35 of Functional Constituency by adopting the idea of the "Super-district Councillors" which will be voted across the territory after nominations by District Councillors. Younger members of the Democratic Party including Chan believed that such proposal could not provide any significant progress towards democratic development in local political agenda. In December 2010, Chan quit the party due to the electoral reform to found the [Neo Democrats](/source/Neo_Democrats)[2] and is the incumbent convenor of the party. The Neo Democrats campaigned in the 2011 District Council election and won a total of 8 seats. ## Affiliations Chan is a current member of the Professional Teachers' Union (HK), Hong Kong Marine Biological Association, Society of Toxicology (SOT) in the US, American Fisheries Society, American Physiological Society, etc. He is now chairman (elected) of the Teachers' Association of Chinese University (2011–12). He also serves as warden of Student Hostel 2 of Shaw College, member of the board of trustees of Shaw College, and member of the Assembly of Fellows, Shaw College, Chinese University. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Hong Kong Democrats name new leader"](http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=106FB54E69C60E35&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM). *[BBC](/source/BBC) Archive; [NewsBank](/source/NewsBank)*. RTHK. 12 December 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2010. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Standard20Dec10_2-0)** [Democrats lick wounds as 30 reform radicals quit](http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?sid=30685198&art_id=106201&con_type=1&pp_cat=12) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110116100413/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=12&art_id=106201&sid=30685198&con_type=1) 16 January 2011 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), The Standard, Colleen Lee, 20 December 2010 Party political offices Preceded by Lee Wing-tat Vice Chairperson of Democratic Party 2004–2006 Served alongside: Albert Ho Succeeded by Tik Chi-yuen v t e Democratic Party Leadership and notable members Chairpersons Martin Lee Yeung Sum Lee Wing-tat Albert Ho Emily Lau Wu Chi-wai Lo Kin-hei Vice-Chairpersons Anthony Cheung Lau Chin-shek Law Chi-kwong Chan King-ming Sin Chung-kai Tik Chi-yuen Richard Tsoi Andrew Wan Li Wing-shing Lam Cheuk-ting Edith Leung LegCo members Conrad Lam Albert Chan Cheung Man-kwong Fung Chi-wood James To Michael Ho Huang Chen-ya Man Sai-cheong Ng Ming-yum Fred Li Zachary Wong Andrew Cheng Tsang Kin-shing John Tse Wong Sing-chi Kam Nai-wai Helena Wong Ted Hui Roy Kwong Internal elections Leadership elections 1994 (Lee) 1996 1998 2000 2002 (Yeung) 2004 (Lee) 2006 (Ho) 2008 2010 2012 (Lau) 2014 2016 (Wu) 2018 2020 (Lo) 2022 2024 LegCo primaries 2016 Related groups Predecessors Frontier Hong Kong Affairs Society Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood Meeting Point United Democrats of Hong Kong Split groups League of Social Democrats Third Side Neo Democrats Real brother Local alliances Pro-democracy camp Civil Human Rights Front Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union Group of 190 Joint Committee on the Promotion of Democratic Government International affiliated Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats Liberal International Hong Kong Portal --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Chan King-ming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_King-ming) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_King-ming?action=history)). 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