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01 News | IPCC Chairman Wang Peishi takes over as Chairman of the University Committee of Hong Kong University Li Guozhang to retire on New Year’s Day

2021-11-24T13:54:03.454Z


"Hong Kong 01" learned that Li Guozhang, Chairman of the Council of the University of Hong Kong, will resign after completing a two-term six-year term on December 31 this year and will be replaced by Wang Peishi, Chairman of the Independent Police Complaint Handling Committee. Wang Pei


"Hong Kong 01" learned that Li Guozhang, Chairman of the Council of the University of Hong Kong, will resign after completing a two-term six-year term on December 31 this year and will be replaced by Wang Peishi, Chairman of the Independent Police Complaint Handling Committee.

Wang Peishi is a barrister. She is the wife of Liao Changjiang, a member of the Executive Council and the "squad leader" of the establishment.

She was invited by the school committee to join the school committee in March last year for a three-year term.

People familiar with the matter pointed out that Wang Yizhen has cooperated with the University of Hong Kong, so he is not completely unfamiliar with the University of Hong Kong.


It is expected that one person will concurrently serve as three public chairpersons

On May 28 this year, the government announced the appointment of Wang Peishi as the chairman of the IPCC. The appointment will begin on June 1 for a two-year period to replace Liang Dingbang, who has expired.

Wang Peishi is a practising barrister and serves as the chairman of the Minimum Wage Committee for a term of office until the end of February 2023.

It is understood that the government has decided that Wang Peishi will take over as the chairman of the University Committee of the University of Hong Kong, which will take effect on January 1 next year. The term of office is expected to be three years.

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Li Guozhang, who is about to step down, served as the principal of CUHK and then the director of the Education and Manpower Bureau.

He was appointed by the then Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying as a member of the University Council in March 2015. At that time, the appointment of the Vice President of the University of Hong Kong was a storm. The then Dean of the Faculty of Law Chen Wenmin was recommended as the Vice President (Academic and Human Resources) of the University of Hong Kong, but the selection process was stuck. .

Under Fengyan was appointed as a member of the University Council of Hong Kong, Li Guozhang was suspected of having a political mission, and the recording of the meeting of the university committee was leaked, revealing that Li Guozhang had questioned Chen Wenmin not having a doctorate at the meeting and accused him of being the dean of the law school. Just because he is a "nice guy" (good guy).

In the end, Chen Wenmin was rejected as the deputy principal of the University of Hong Kong.

On July 28, 2015, a large number of Hong Kong University students and alumni rushed into the University Council of Hong Kong and asked the committee members to explain the appointment of the vice-principal. Li Guozhang became one of the spearheads. Later, the chairman of the Hong Kong University Student Union, Feng Jingen, was once called the "Team". He was charged with criminal intimidation of Li Guozhang and eventually Feng Tuo guilty, but was convicted alternately with "disrupting order in a public place".

After Li Guozhang was appointed as a member of the University Council, he has been accused of paving the way to succeed Liang Zhihong, who retired in the same year, as the Chairman of the University Council.

In the early morning of December 31, 2015, the government gazetted that Li Guozhang would be the chairman of the University Council of Hong Kong. However, before the official announcement, netizens flowed out of the website link for the appointment of the gazette.

Ma Faison, the former principal of the University of Hong Kong, took office in 2014 and resigned within three years. It is rumored that after the Chen Wenmin incident, the two held different opinions on the school committee.

At that time, it was said that the final stage of the selection of a new principal was a dispute between Liang Zhuowei and Zhang Xiang, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. Zhang Xiang was finally recommended.

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The dismissal of the chair of Dai Yaoting, the founder of "Occupy Central" and former associate professor of the Law School of Hong Kong University, was also related to the school committee led by Li Guozhang.

Dai Yaoting was sentenced to imprisonment in the Occupy Central case. The school set up a "Committee to Explore the Reasons for Adequate Dismissal" to review. The chief vice-principal Wang Yujian was chaired. After 9 months of investigation, the committee submitted a report to Zhang Xiang and sought the academic affairs of the University of Hong Kong. According to the opinion of the committee members, the conclusion is that Dai's behavior is improper, but it is not considered as a reason for dismissal.

However, the HKU College Board ignored the recommendations of the Board of Education and passed the immediate dismissal of Dai Yaoting with a ratio of 18 to 2, which caused public criticism for the board’s ignorance of procedural justice and trampling on the university’s academic freedom and autonomy.

▼On July 9th, the HKU Student Union secretary will apologize and resign ▼


In July this year, the Hong Kong University Students’ Union Council passed the “grateful” motion to "sacrifice for Hong Kong" by the suspect Liang Jianhui in the July 1 Assassination. Afterwards, the student union withdrew the motion, bowed and apologized and resigned, but the university still announced that it would no longer recognize the role of the Hong Kong University Student Union in the school. , The National Security Department of the police entered the school and searched.

Li Guozhang accepted an exclusive interview with the newspaper at that time. He clearly stated that the incident should not be confessed. He will review the impact of the incident on the reputation and safety of the University of Hong Kong in accordance with the university rules, and study how to follow up. Later, the school committee ordered the members of the council to be prohibited from attending the meeting, namely About 40 students set foot on campus and use university facilities and services.

The Chairman of the IPCC Wang Peishi criticizes the case involving the anti-amendment law and the complainant’s loss of contact has caused unreasonable and unfair National Games. Take over as the chairman

Source: hk1

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