Tsui Sze Man was a pro-Beijing

Beijing

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 loyalist and magazine

Magazine

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 publisher based in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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. He was nicknamed "Big Cannon Tsui" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial views. He was known as a staunch supporter of Beijing's policies in Hong Kong.

Early life

Tsui was born in 1914 in Burma (present day Myanmar

Myanmar

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). Despite his birth in Burma, Tsui spent the majority of his life either in mainland China

China

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 or Hong Kong. Tsui attended school at Xiamen University

Xiamen University

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 in Fujian province.

Career

Tsui returned to his birthplace, Burma, in the 1940s and founded the New Rangoon News. He returned to Communist China in 1964. Tsui finally settled permanently in Hong Kong in 1977. Once in Hong Kong, Tsui began publishing The Mirror, a pro-Beijing magazine which supported the policies of the mainland.

Tsui was known for his controversial opinions. In 1998, he heavily criticized RTHK, a Hong Kong government run radio station

Radio station

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, for being too critical of the Hong Kong and Chinese administrations. Tsui urged Hong Kong officials to censor RTHK.

Tsui served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a Hong Kong committee which advises China's congress.

Tsui died of organ failure on 9 September 2007 in Hong Kong at the age of 93. At Tsui's funderal, Gao Siren

Gao Siren

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, Beijing's liaison

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 to Hong Kong praised Tsui for his support of Hong Kong's Basic Law

Hong Kong Basic Law

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 and current "one country, two systems

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" policy. Mourners included high level officials from China and Hong Kong's governments, including the Chief Executive of Hong Kong

Chief Executive of Hong Kong

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, Donald Tsang

Donald Tsang

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, the director of China's Hong Kong and Macau

Macau

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 affairs office, Liao Hui, and former Hong Kong leader, Tung Chee-hwa. Wreaths and flowers were sent by Chinese President Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

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, Premier Wen Jiabao

Wen Jiabao

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 and Wu Bangguo

Wu Bangguo

Wu Bangguo is a high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China. He is currently Chairman and Party secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, a position that makes him China's chief legislator...

, the head of China's congress.

Tsui was buried at Dapeng Bay in the city of Shenzhen

Shenzhen

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, China.