James Tien (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

James Tien (politician)

Hong Kong politician

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1947

Place of Birth: Shanghai, China

Profession: politician, entrepreneur, justice of the peace

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About James Tien (politician)

  • James Tien Pei-chun, GBS, OBE, JP (Chinese: ???; born 8 January 1947) is the former Chairman and Leader of the Liberal Party (LP) and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco).
  • Coming from the background of an entrepreneur, he was also a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong (Exco), member of Central and Western and Kwai Tsing District Council and Hong Kong member to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Son of the textile entrepreneur-turned-politician Francis Tien, James was appointed to public offices since the 1980s, where he sat on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC) and was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1988.
  • He returned to the LegCo in 1993 through a by-election in the Industrial (First) functional constituency nominated by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI). He succeeded Allen Lee to become the chairman of the Liberal Party in 1998 and was appointed to the Executive Council by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in 2002.
  • His popularity rose to peak when he resigned from the ExCo in 2003 in opposition to the Basic Law Article 23 which brought down the proposed legislation.
  • He ran a successful campaign in the 2004 LegCo geographical constituency direct election but was defeated in 2008 and resigned from his party offices. He threw his weight behind Henry Tang in the 2012 Chief Executive election and had been critical of the eventual winner Leung Chun-ying after the election.
  • His vocal opposition to Leung saw his CPPCC membership being stripped away, making him the first person in history to have received this sanction.
  • He served one more term on the LegCo from 2012 to 2016.

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