| 鄉議局 | |
 Emblem of the Heung Yee Kuk | |
 Heung Yee Kuk Building in Shek Mun. | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1926 |
| Headquarters | 30 On Muk Street, Shek Mun, Sha Tin, NT |
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| Website | hyknt |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄉議局 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乡议局 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Rural Council | ||||||||||||
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| Heung Yee Kuk N.T. | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 新界鄉議局 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新界乡议局 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Rural Council of the New Territories | ||||||||||
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The Heung Yee Kuk, officially the Heung Yee Kuk N.T., is a statutory advisory body representing establishment interests in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The council is a powerful organisation comprising heads of rural committees which represent villages and market towns.
From 1980 to 2015, it was chaired by Lau Wong-fat, a billionaire landowner and heavyweight political figure in the pro-Beijing camp,[1] until he stepped down and was succeeded by his son Kenneth Lau.[2]
The organisation has its own functional constituency seat in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Despite having less than 150 registered voters,[3] it also controls 26 seats on the 1200-member committee which selects the chief executive of Hong Kong.[4]
- ^ Bridge Builder Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Christine Loh, Civic Exchange
- ^ Ng, Kang-chung (1 June 2015). "Heung Yee Kuk chairman steps into father's shoes saying he'll seek his advice". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "Now is the best chance to reform the Heung Yee Kuk｜Alex Price". Apple Daily 蘋果日報 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ^ "The Heung Yee Kuk: how a village governing body became an empire of rural leaders". South China Morning Post. 13 September 2016.