[2][original research] Its founders, Li Shan, Wong Chau-chi, and Chen Jianwen, were mainland Chinese executives employed at prominent financial institutions in Hong Kong.

[3] Wong also born on the mainland and was educated at the Harvard University before he worked at Goldman Sachs, Citibank and BNP Paribas and was then the chairman and chief executive of CMMB Vision and a director of private equity fund Chi Capital.

[3] Both Li and Wong are heard to hold higher-up positions in Hong Kong's Chinese Communist Party School Commercial Professionals Alumni Association (CAGA).

James Tien of the pro-business Liberal Party believed that Beijing did not want to tilt the balance of power by replacing the incumbents with a group of lesser-known, mainland-born people.

It will also set up a think tank and public opinion survey institution and plans to offer candidates for Legislative Council and Chief Executive elections.