Celebrities from the Hong Kong University Student Union came out of the academy to advocate Hong Kong independence and Chen Wenmin’s appointment caused a sensation

The congress of the Hong Kong University Student Union passed a motion of "mourning" earlier, "grateful" to the July 1 assassination suspect Liang Jianhui for "sacrificing for Hong Kong", which caused an uproar. The congress later withdrew the motion and all the officers apologized and resigned.

The University of Hong Kong issued a statement today (13th) stating that it no longer recognizes the existing role of the University of Hong Kong Student Union (as an independent registered society) on campus.

Established for more than a hundred years, the Hong Kong University Students’ Union has actively participated in local social movements in the past, including the 2014 Occupy Central Movement and mourning for the "June 4th" movement. It has nurtured many social celebrities and young social movement leaders, and has repeatedly been involved in political disputes in recent years. In April this year, the Daily criticized the University of Hong Kong Student Union for discrediting "One Country, Two Systems". The name of the Student Union was a "malignant tumor" to be removed. In 2015, the issue of the appointment of the Vice President of the University of Hong Kong attracted public attention.

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Celebrities have emerged over the years, Feng Weiguang and Yang Yongqiang, former president

The Hong Kong University Student Union was established in 1912. In the past, celebrities came out in large numbers. Its past chairpersons include former news coordinator Feng Weiguang, former director of the Food and Health Bureau Yang Yongqiang, "Economic Daily" founder Feng Shaobo, "852 Post" founder You Qingyuan, etc. In the Chung Tingyao incident, the then principal Zheng Yaozong was asked by a loudspeaker to explain Zhang Yunqi, who had fought with the then Secretary for Security Ye Liu Shuyi during the period of Article 23 legislation.

In the 1970s, Democratic Party Vice Chairman Li Yongda was the Vice President of the Student Union, Ye Jianyuan, a former member of the Legislative Council of Education, was also the Vice President of Foreign Affairs, and Dai Yaoting, one of the "Three Occupants", was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Zhang Ruihui, the former president of the University of Hong Kong Students' Union, criticized the University's decision to be unreasonable and unreasonable, showing that the university has been guilty of words and has lost freedom of speech.

He said that the student union is elected by all students and has a certain degree of representativeness. The school’s practice this time is tantamount to disregarding student representatives and organizing participation in university affairs, violating "democratic governance of the school," which is not what an international university should do.

In recent years, there have been a series of large-scale social movements in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong University Students' Union, which has been active in social movements, has many representatives becoming symbols of Hong Kong's social movements.

During the 2014 Occupy Central Movement, the then-Chairman of the Hong Kong University Students' Union Liang Liyu and the former Vice-Chairman of Foreign Affairs Zhou Yongkang, as representatives of the Federation of Students, negotiated with the "Political Reform Trio" led by the then Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, becoming a landmark of the Occupy Central Movement One scene.

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The school committee rejected the appointment of Chen Wenmin as the vice-principal.

The University of Hong Kong Student Union has been involved in political controversy in recent years. In 2015, the appointment of the Vice President of the University of Hong Kong caused a stir.

Back then, Chen Wenmin, the former dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, became the only candidate for the vice president. There were rumours that government officials asked the school committee to veto the appointment of Chen Wenmin. The consideration of Chen's appointment as the vice president was postponed.

On July 28 of the same year, when the school committee met, a large number of students forcibly rushed into the conference room to protest, causing confusion. When Lu Chongmao, a member of the School Committee of the University of Hong Kong, left, he was surrounded by a large number of students, and Lu suddenly fell to the ground with his hands on his knees. Questioned by the students as "insertion".

In September of the same year, the HKU School Committee rejected the recommendation to recommend Chen Wenmin, the former dean of the Faculty of Law, as the vice-principal. The then chairman of the School Committee, Liang Zhihong, refused to disclose the reason for the rejection on the grounds of confidentiality.

Feng Jingen, then president of the Hong Kong University Student Union, immediately called a press conference to disclose the reasons for the school committee’s rejection of the appointment, including Lu Chongmao’s claim that Chen Wenmin had not condoned him after the July 28 incident, and Li Guozhang’s claim that "Chen Wenmin became the dean of the Faculty of Law only because It’s a nice guy" and so on.

Soon after, the media obtained several top-secret recordings of the school committee meetings, and the remarks made by many school committee members at the meeting were made public.

When the vice-principal appointment proposal was rejected, Li Guozhang, who was a member of the school committee, was very dissatisfied with the incident, saying that the meeting was held behind closed doors and kept secret, and should not be made public. He criticized Feng for being "big talkers."

Opposing Li Guozhang as the chairman of the school committee, students surrounded the building

In January 2016, Li Guozhang was appointed as the chairman of the school committee. The Hong Kong University Students' Union was dissatisfied with the decision, believing that the government interfered with the academic freedom of the University, organized a strike, demanded the abolition of the Chief Supervisor's Inevitable System, and established a task force to review the "University of Hong Kong Ordinance".

During the first meeting of the school committee, Li Guozhang gathered outside the conference building and asked to have a dialogue with Li Guozhang and other school committees.

After the meeting, the members of the assembly received news that the school committee would not immediately set up a task force to review the "University of Hong Kong Ordinance". It surrounded the main entrance of the building in large numbers to try to prevent the then principals Ma Feisen and Li Guozhang from leaving the venue. The police then rushed to the scene. , Fired pepper spray, and finally left with Li Guozhang "walking through the back door." The school committee issued a statement and unanimously agreed to set up a review team.

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According to tradition, every June 4th, the Pillar of National Death was washed and the Taikoo Bridge was repainted

Every year on June 4th, the Hong Kong University Student Union will mourn June 4th by washing the pillar of national sorrow and repainting the Taikoo Bridge.

After the June 4th Victoria Park rally ended in 1997, Hong Kong University students tried to escort the Pillar of National War created by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt back to Hong Kong University. The process was obstructed, but was finally released. The Pillar of National War is now permanently erected at the University of Hong Kong. The Huang Kejing building platform is backed by the Canteen of the Hong Kong University Student Union.

The Taikoo Bridge opposite the Taikoo Hall of the University of Hong Kong has the June Fourth slogan "The cold-blooded martyr, the heroic soul, swears to annihilate the wolves. Democracy, the spark is immortal". The slogan, but the handwriting is printed on the Taikoo Bridge through the black cloth. The Hong Kong University Student Union will also repaint the slogan in white as usual.

The Hong Kong University Students’ Union was once accused of "redness". After being elected in 2009, the President of the Hong Kong University Students’ Union, Chen Yi'e, publicly questioned whether there were civilian deaths on June 4th. He also described the pro-democracy leader Chai Ling as a "moving student leader", which triggered a referendum by Hong Kong students to remove Chen Yi'e. .

"Xue Yuan" was accused of advocating Hong Kong independence, then chief executive Liang Zhenying criticized by name in the policy address

The Hong Kong University Student Union publication "Xue Yuan" was once accused of spreading the "Hong Kong Independence" ideology. In January 2015, when the then Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying published the "Policy Address", he rarely mentioned that the cover topic of "Xue Yuan" was "The Destiny of Hong Kong Nationality". Self-determination, as well as the "Hong Kong Nationalism" published earlier by "Xue Yuan", pointed out that the book advocated that Hong Kong "find a way out of self-reliance and self-determination." The false claims of "Xue Yuan" and the student leaders of Occupy Middle School must be vigilant.

Leung Chun-ying criticized Wang Junjie, the deputy editor-in-chief of "Xue Yuan" who edited "Hong Kong National Theory", for completely wrong about Hong Kong's constitutional status. He also quoted an article in "Xue Yuan" which mentioned that "the theory of democratic return has died and Hong Kong's democratic independence came into being. "

"People's Daily" criticized the Hong Kong University Students' Association for discrediting "One Country, Two Systems": To eliminate the "malignant tumor"

In April of this year, the Hong Kong University Student Union issued an open letter to the principal Zhang Xiang, questioning whether the school’s implementation of the national security education curriculum would ruin the autonomy of the institutions.

The People’s Daily published an article naming and criticizing the Hong Kong University Students’ Association for smearing National Security Education, saying that since the Central Government’s efforts to improve Hong Kong’s electoral system, the Hong Kong University Students’ Association has repeatedly provoked and vilified "One Country, Two Systems". "when.

The article criticized the promulgation of the National Security Law and the improvement of the electoral system. When Hong Kong’s hopes were cleared, the Hong Kong University Student Union continued to "do not die" and went against the trend. It continued to spread reactionary ideas in an attempt to confuse more students on board the thief ship and tie up colleges and universities to criminal warfare. Che, and then accumulated the black energy of "continuing the revolution," and questioned that they were not students, but "thugs hiding in the campus."

The article stated that strong medicine is needed to get rid of the "malignant tumors" in the ivory tower, so that poison teachers and poison students will lose their place, and return peace to the campus and hope to Hong Kong.

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