Chung Shu Kun Christopher

Christopher Chung Shu-kun, SBS, JP (; born 31 March 1957, commonly known as "Tree Gun") was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2012, representing the Hong Kong Island constituency. He is also former chairman of Eastern District Council, and a former councillor from 1991 to 2015, representing the Yue Wan constituency. He is a veteran member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, the flagship pro-Beijing party in Hong Kong. He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.

Biography Chung was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He was inspired by Mao Zedong Thought when he was young and joined the pro-Beijing organisation Hok Yau Club in 1974, where he went on to become its president. During the 1980s when the colonial government introduced elections to the District Boards, he participated in the discussion in the club which decided not to participate.

He first contested in the 1988 District Board elections, where he initially considered standing in North Point, but switched with Chan Yuen-han and ran in Chai Wan, where he lost the Reform Club's Brook Bernacchi and nonpartisan Wong Ming-kuen. He is widely known by the nickname "Tree Gun", direct translation and transliteration of the two characters of his Chinese name, respectively.

He was surprisingly defeated by Chui Chi-kin, an "umbrella soldier" inspired by the 2014 Hong Kong protests almost unknown to the public before he was elected in the 2015 District Council election with 2,017 votes against Chung's 1,829 votes in Yue Wan, which ended his 25-year service as District Councillor.

After having been listed by the party as a candidate for the 2016 Legislative Council election, he was dropped in May 2016 when the party decided to field only one candidate list in Hong Kong Island, to be led by Horace Cheung. He protested the party's decision and considered running as an independent.

Personal life Chung worked in the information technology field after graduating from secondary school, in which he had worked at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Jockey Club until he became full-time district councillor in 1999. At the age of 47, he went back to school, studying master's degrees at the Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Wales. He began his doctoral studies in Business Administration at the London South Bank University since 2011 but has stopped his study due to the 2012 election.

His wife is a retired Chinese teacher and his daughter is an English teacher.