Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong
The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong is a non-partisan think tank in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.Mission
The mission BPF is:
- to help enhance the competitiveness, long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong;
- to promote the continuous development of Hong Kong as a free, capitalist and international financial and business centre;
- to conduct in-depth studies on issues of strategic importance to Hong Kong's economic, social and political development; and
- to promote the importance of strong economic cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
History
The BPF was founded in 1990 as a successor to the "Group of 89 members" of the Basic Law Consultative and Drafting Committees, a group of conservative business and professional leaders which opposed to faster pace of democraticsation.
Led by the pro-Beijing tycoon Vincent Lo, the Federation was against the then Governor Chris Patten's proposal of constitutional reforms for the Legislative Council which Beijing strongly opposed.
