Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong
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| native_name = 香港工商專業聯會
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| predecessor = Business and Professional Group of the Basic Law Consultative Committee
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| formation = {{Start date and age|1990}}
| founder = Vincent Lo
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| type = Public policy think tank
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| headquarters = Suite 3706, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Peter Wong
| leader_title2 = Chairman
| leader_name2 = Victor Apps
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The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong ({{zh|t=香港工商專業聯會}}, abbreviated 工商專聯; BPF) is a non-partisan think tank in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Mission
The mission BPF is:{{cite web|url=http://www.bpf.org.hk/articles/?do=list&catalog_id=1049|work=The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong|title=Who is BPF?}}
- to help enhance the competitiveness, long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong;
- to promote the continuous development of Hong Kong as a free, capitalist and international financial and business centre;
- to conduct in-depth studies on issues of strategic importance to Hong Kong's economic, social and political development; and
- to promote the importance of strong economic cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
History
The BPF was founded in 1990 as a successor to the "Group of 89 members" of the Basic Law Consultative and Drafting Committees, a group of conservative business and professional leaders which opposed to faster pace of democraticsation. It maintained close relationship with other parties of business background, especially the Liberal Party.{{Cite journal| last1=Hook | first1=Brian | date=1993 | title=Political Change in Hong Kong | journal=China Quarterly | language=en | volume=136 | pages=852 | issn=0305-7410 | doi=10.1017/S0305741000032355 }}
Led by the pro-Beijing tycoon Vincent Lo, the Federation was against the then Governor Chris Patten's proposal of constitutional reforms for the Legislative Council which Beijing strongly opposed.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS4Dc9tthyg|title=The Last Governor 2: Restraint in Difficult Circumstances – YouTube|work=YouTube}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bpf.org.hk/ BPF official website]
{{Hong Kong political parties}}
Category:Non-profit organisations based in Hong Kong
Category:Political and economic think tanks based in Hong Kong
Category:Think tanks established in 1990