Tang Fei (legislator)

Lawrence Tang Fei^{[citation needed]}, MH (Chinese: 鄧飛) is a Hong Kong politician and educator. He is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Election Committee constituency. He is also a former chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers (FEW) and former principal of the Heung To Secondary School (Tseung Kwan O).

The Honourable Lawrence Tang Fei MH
鄧飛
Tang in 2021
Member of the Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2022
Preceded by	New constituency
Constituency	Election Committee
Personal details
Political party	Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers (FEW)
Alma mater	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Occupation	politician and educator

Biography

Tang graduated from the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.^[1]

He was appointed to the Education Commission in 2011 and the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education in 2014.^[2] He was appointed to the Committee on the Initiation of Moral and National Education Subject, which the subject later triggered a large-scale protest movement.

He ran in Election Committee constituency in the 2021 Legislative Council election, in which he received 1,339 votes and gained the second seat in the constituency.^[3]

In 2022, Tang defended a school rule where boys were not allowed to have long hair, saying that it would go against traditional values.^[4]

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