Ng Ching-fai, GBS  is a Professor of Chemistry and the former President and Vice Chancellor of Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong Baptist University is a publicly-funded tertiary institution with a Christian education heritage. It is the sole surviving institution of 13 major Christian universities that once operated on the Chinese mainland,...

 and the President of United International College

United International College

United International College situated in Zhuhai and jointly founded by Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University, is the first full-scale cooperation in higher education between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Its charter has been approved by the Ministry of Education with full...

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Before he became the President and Vice Chancellor of HKBU, Ng was the Dean of the Faculty of Science of the University and a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council from July 1997 to July 2001.

Ng also serves as a Member of the National People's Congress

National People's Congress

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 of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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. Ng was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS)

Hong Kong honours system

The existing Hong Kong honours system was created after transfer of government of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China as a special administrative region in 1997...

 order by the Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 Government on July 1, 2005.

He attended the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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 and gained a PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 degree at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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