Hong Kong 100 VIPs 23 - Szeto Wah

Description: Szeto Wah, ,nickname Uncle Wah, born in Hong Kong, native of Kaiping, Guangdong, Hong Kong Democratic Party Whip and Chairman of the Alliance, has been hailed as the Hong Kong democratic Party veteran, SZETO then a school principal, a former teacher, taught for forty years, HOLEY. Since the colonial period in Hong Kong to participate in social movements, the seventies, in 1973 and served as the Hong Kong Professional Teachers Association teachers' union's first president [2]. 1985 Hong Kong Legislative Council into the body of the education functional constituency members, the same year, appointed by the Beijing government as the Basic Law Drafting Committee. 1989 "4 June incident" broke out because of dissatisfaction with the bloody suppression of pro-Chinese, SZETO and Martin will also exit the Basic Law Drafting Committee, the organization set up in Hong Kong in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements (Alliance), was later involved in setting up the Hong Kong Democratic Party former Democrats of Hong Kong, to promote democratic reform in Hong Kong. In the minds of people, generally agreed that he and Martin are the first Hong Kong people for democracy.