He was one of the founding members of the Meeting Point, a liberal political group set up in 1983 for the democratic government in Hong Kong under Chinese rule after 1997 and a core member of the Hong Kong Affairs Society, which was set up in 1984 for the discussion of the Hong Kong sovereignty after 1997. He advocated the implementation of the promise of the "Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong" guaranteed in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.[1] In the 1985, he was appointed to the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee for consultation for the drafting of the Hong Kong Basic Law.
He emigrated to Canada before the handover of Hong Kong in 1996 and opened an English bookstore nearby the University of Toronto collecting books related to Chinese affairs. He became a commentator in a Chinese local radio and columnist for many local Chinese newspaper. He died of cancer on 4 April 2015, aged 70.
References
^ abRead Their Lips (I): A dossier of political leaders in Hong Kong. Pace Publishing Ltd. p. 240.