{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{family name hatnote|[[Zhang (surname)|Cheung (張)]]|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Cheung Yin-tung |native_name = {{nobold|張賢登}} |native_name_lang = zh-hk |image = File:Cheung Yin Tung.jpg |image_size = |honorific_suffix = |office = Secretary of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] |term_start = 13 December 1998 |term_end = 17 December 2006 |predecessor = [[Law Chi-kwong]] |successor = Pegga Ha |term_start1 = 14 December 2008 |term_end1 = 23 January 2015 |predecessor1 = Pegga Ha |successor1 = Li Wing-shing |constituency1 = |majority1 = |office2 = Treasurer of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] |term_start2 = 17 December 2006 |term_end2 = 14 December 2008 |predecessor2 = Tsui Hon-kwong |successor2 = Tsui Hon-kwong |office3 = Member of the [[Yuen Long District Board]] |term_start3 = 1 October 1991 |term_end3 = 30 September 1994 |predecessor3 = [[Zachary Wong]]<br />Chung Kwai-ping |successor3 = ''Constituency abolished'' |constituency3 = Yuen Long Town West |office4 = Member of the [[Yuen Long District Council]] |term_start4 = 1 January 2004 |term_end4 = 31 December 2007 |predecessor4 = ''New constituency'' |successor4 = ''Constituency abolished'' |constituency4 = Wang Yat |majority = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1964|5|1}} |birth_place = [[British Hong Kong]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[United Democrats of Hong Kong|United Democrats]] {{small|(1990–94)}}<br />[[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] {{small|(1994–2025)}} |other_party = |alma_mater = |occupation = }}
'''Cheung Yin-tung''' ({{zh-t|張賢登}}; born 1 May 1964) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former secretary and treasurer of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] and former member of the [[Yuen Long District Council]].
==Biography== He was a [[Indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories (Hong Kong)|New Territories indigenous resident]] born in [[Yuen Long]] in 1964. He participated in student activism when he was younger and was chairman of the 32nd standing committee of the [[Hong Kong Federation of Students]] (HKFS) and led protests in support of the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]] in Beijing.
After he graduated, he became a teacher. He was invited by [[Meeting Point]] and [[United Democrats of Hong Kong]] legislator [[Ng Ming-yum]] to join the United Democrats, which later transformed into the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]]. He was elected to the [[Yuen Long District Council|Yuen Long District Board]] in 1991 but was defeated by conservative [[Leung Che-cheung]] in [[Yiu Yau (constituency)|Yiu Yau]] with a large margin in the [[1994 Hong Kong local elections|1994 re-election]]. He participated in the [[1995 Hong Kong municipal elections|1995 Regional Council election]], running against Leung Che-cheung again but lost to Leung in a margin of 70 votes.
In the [[2003 Hong Kong local elections|2003 District Council election]], he won a seat in the Wang Yat constituency, taking the first seat for the Democrats in [[Tin Shui Wai]]. In the [[2004 Hong Kong legislative election|2004 Legislative Council election]], he ran in the [[New Territories West (constituency)|New Territories West]] with [[Albert Ho]]'s ticket. Ho eventually won a seat but Cheung was unelected. He ran again in [[2008 Hong Kong legislative election|2008 Legislative Council election]], leading the third ticket for the Democratic Party along with Albert Ho and [[Lee Wing-tat]]. His ticket received 10,069 votes and was not elected.
He had been the Democratic Party secretary two terms, from 1998 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2014 and also the party treasurer from 2006 to 2008. Most of the Democratic Party leaders were denied access to the Mainland China due to its strained relationship with the Beijing government. As a Democratic Party secretary, Cheung was granted a 10-year [[Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents|Home Entry Permit]] to attend a course for District Councillors in 2005. He said he would hope there would be more formal liaison with mainland authorities.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=21 September 2005|title=Words that cause confusion|url=https://www.scmp.com/article/517151/words-cause-confusion}}</ref>
He was responsible for the intra-party investigation over the allegation of some senior members were involved in spying activities of China in 2006, being the convenor of the five-member committee.
On 23 January 2015 after the [[2014 Democratic Party (HK) leadership election|party leadership election]], Cheung Yin-tung resigned as secretary and his position on the Central Committee with his disciple [[Kwong Chun-yu]]. Some speculated their disaffections towards the dominance of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)#Factions|Mainstreamer faction]] led by the "triumvirate", [[Yeung Sum]], [[Cheung Man-kwong]] and Lee Wing-tat.<ref>{{cite news|title=張賢登鄺俊宇辭民主黨中委 被指不滿大佬暗中操控 正副主席不認同|work=Standnews|date=28 January 2015}}</ref>
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