New Prospect for Hong Kong

New Prospect for Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港新方向) is a political group established in October 2019 consisting mainly of mainland Chinese living in Hong Kong, dubbed "gang piao" in Mandarin.[1]

New Prospect for Hong Kong
香港新方向
FoundedOctober 2019[1]
Membership (2021)~100[1]
Colours  Turquoise
Legislative Council
1 / 90
District Councils
0 / 479
Website
www.nphk.hk

Background

The party was initially formed in October 2019 during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. Its co-founder Gary Zhang was a manager at the Prince Edward station during the Prince Edward station attack on 31 August 2019 and had said that "Hongkongers are not rioters". The other co-founders included lawyer Paul Wang from Haldanes, and Marco Liu, founder of the PR company Hong Kong Asia Cultural Dissemination.[1][2]

In the 2021 Legislative Council election, Gary Zhang ran in the New Territories North, receiving nominations from HKU professor Yuen Kwok-yung, former HKEx CEO Charles Li, Cheung Kong Holdings managing director Justin Chiu and MTR CEO Jacob Kam.[2]

Elections performance

Legislative council elections

Election Number of
popular votes
 % of
popular votes
GC
seats
FC
seats
EC
seats
Total seats +/− Position
2021 28,986Steady 2.19Steady 1 0 0
1 / 90
1Increase 8thIncrease

See also

References

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