Pang Chun-hoi,MBE (Chinese:彭震海; 26 June 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a trade unionist and a member of the member of theLegislative Council of Hong Kong (1985–95) for theLabour constituency. He was also vice-president of theHong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council, apro-Kuomintang union, and chairman of the Cotton Industry Workers' General Union.^[1]

Pang was born inShanghai,China on 26 June 1921. He moved to Hong Kong with his family in 1949.

In 1952, Pang was a clerk in a cotton mills. In the 1950s, founded the Cotton Industry Workers' General Union for the cotton mill workers and successfully implemented the eight-hour shift system before he became its chairman in 1957. He also became the executive committee member of theHong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC), the largestpro-Kuomintang labour union at the time and later became its vice-president. He became member of theKuomintang in 1962 and attended the11th and12th National Congress of Kuomintang in 1976 and 1981.

He was appointed by the colonial government to the Labour Advisory Board in 1965. During the 1967 labour disputes which later turned intoHong Kong 1967 leftist riots, Pang opposed thepro-Beijing leftist workers' intimidation to young workers to join the labour strikes on 29 May. He urged the workers to report for work the following day with the assurance that government protection would be sought for them against the intimidators. Three textiles mills,Nan Fung Textiles, Central Textiles and Wyler Textiles operated normally the next morning as a result.^[2] In 1978, he was awardedMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

In the1985 Legislative Council election in which direct elections were introduced for the first time, Pang won a seat in the two-seatLabour constituency carefully designed by the colonial government to maintain the balance of power between the pro-Taipei and pro-Beijing unions. Pang was elected uncontestedly alongsideTam Yiu-chung of thepro-BeijingHong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU). He was re-elected in 1988 uncontestedly and in again 1991 for the third term.

Pang voted closely with theliberal camp in the legislature. He was one of the swing votes during the1994 Hong Kong electoral reform introduced byChris Patten, the lastGovernor of Hong Kong for a more democratic legislature on the eve of thehandover of Hong Kong strongly opposed by Beijing. He was lobbied byAllen Lee, chairman of theLiberal Party who tabled an alternative proposal which was backed by Beijing in replacement of Patten's proposal, as well asLu Ping, director of theHong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. He voted against Liberal proposal and voted for Patten proposal. He stepped down for the Legislative Council in 1995.

Pang married Yang Wai-chang and had one son and five daughters.^[3]

On 28 February 2003, Pang died of heart attack. Pang was 81 years old. In his funeral, his coffin was covered with theflag of Kuomintang.^[4]

• 1921 births
• 2003 deaths
• Hong Kong trade unionists
• Members of the Kuomintang
• HK LegCo Members 1985–1988
• HK LegCo Members 1988–1991
• HK LegCo Members 1991–1995
• Politicians from Shanghai
• Chinese emigrants to British Hong Kong

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