{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Thomas Pang Cheung-wai | native_name = {{nobold|彭長緯}} | native_name_lang = zh-hk | honorific_suffix = [[Silver Bauhinia Star|SBS]], [[Justice of Peace|JP]] | image = Thomas Pang Cheung-wai.JPG | image_size = 180px | caption = | office = Vice-Chairman of the [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]] | term_start = 19 April 2013 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Lau Kong-wah]] | successor = | 1blankname = Chairman | 1namedata = [[Tam Yiu-chung]]<br />[[Starry Lee]] | office1 = Member of the [[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] | constituency1 = | term_start1 = February 2013 | 1blankname1 = Chairman | 1namedata1 = [[Yu Zhengsheng]] | successor1 = | office2 = Member of the [[Sha Tin District Council]] | constituency2 = [[Sui Wo (constituency)|Sui Wo]] | term_start2 = 1 January 2000 | term_end2 = 31 December 2019 | predecessor2 = ''New constituency'' | successor2 = Mak Tsz-kin | constituency3 = [[Fo Tan (constituency)|Fo Tan]] | term_start3 = 1 April 1991 | term_end3 = 30 June 1997 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = Porinda Liu | office4 = Member of the [[Regional Council of Hong Kong|Regional Council]] | constituency4 = Sha Tin North | term_start4 = 1 April 1995 | term_end4 = 30 June 1997 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]] (DAB) | spouse = | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician }}
'''Thomas Pang Cheung-wai''', [[Silver Bauhinia Star|SBS]], [[Justice of Peace|JP]] ({{lang-zh|彭長緯}}, born 1954) is the current vice-chairman of the [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]] (DAB), the largest [[pro-Beijing camp|pro-Beijing]] party in Hong Kong.
==Career== Pang has been serving in the [[Sha Tin District]] for many years. He was first elected to the [[Sha Tin District Council|Sha Tin District Board]] in the [[1991 Hong Kong local elections|1991 District Board elections]] in the [[Fo Tan (constituency)|Fo Tan]] constituency. He subsequently joined the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and won a seat in the [[Regional Council of Hong Kong|Regional Council]] in the [[1995 Hong Kong municipal elections|1995 municipal elections]]. After the establishment of the Special Administrative Region, he was the member of the Provisional Sha Tin District Board and Provisional Regional Council until the Regional Council was abolished in 1999. In [[1998 Hong Kong legislative election|1998 Legislative Council elections]], he failed to get a seat in the [[Election Committee (constituency)|Election Committee constituency]]. In [[2000 Hong Kong legislative election|2000 Legislative Council elections]], he ran against [[Liberal Party (Hong Kong)|Liberal Party]]'s [[Miriam Lau]] in the [[Transport (constituency)|Transport functional constituency]] but was defeated.
Since the [[1999 Hong Kong local elections|1999 District Council elections]], he has been representing the [[Sui Wo (constituency)|Sui Wo]] constituency and is the vice-chairman of the Sha Tin District Council. Through the New Territories District Councils Subsector, he has been member of the [[Election Committee]] since 2000.
Pang has been the secretary general of the DAB. In 2013, he became the delegate to the National Committee of the [[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] (CPPCC), China's top national consultative body.<ref>{{cite news|title=Young Hong Kong blood among new CPPCC appointees|first=Tony|last=Cheung|date=2 February 2013|newspaper=South China Morning Post|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1141494/young-hong-kong-blood-among-new-cppcc-appointees}}</ref> and also the vice-chairman of the DAB.
Pang has also been appointed to various public positions including member of the Appeal Board on Closure Orders (Immediate Health Hazard), Environmental Campaign Committee, [[Hospital Authority]] New Territories Regional Advisory Committee, Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, [[Independent Police Complaints Council]] (IPCC) Observers, and Municipal Services Appeals Board.
He was made [[Justice of the Peace]] on 1 July 2003 and was awarded the [[Bronze Bauhinia Star]] in 2008.
==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-new|constituency}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of [[Sha Tin District Board]]|district=[[Fo Tan (constituency)|Fo Tan]] |years = 1991–1997}} {{s-non|reason=Council abolished}} {{s-new|constituency}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of [[Sha Tin District Council]]|district=[[Sui Wo (constituency)|Sui Wo]] |years = 2000–2019}} {{s-aft|after=[[Mak Tsz-kin]]}} {{s-new|title}} {{s-ttl|title=Vice-Chairman of Sha Tin District Council |years = 2000–2019}} {{s-inc}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before = [[Lau Kong-wah]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Vice Chairman of [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]]|years=2013–present |alongside=[[Ann Chiang]], [[Starry Lee]], [[Horace Cheung]], [[Chan Yung]]}} {{s-inc}} {{s-end}}
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