The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港工商專業聯會, abbreviated 工商專聯; BPF) is a non-partisan think tank in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The mission BPF is:[1] The BPF was founded in 1990 as a successor to the "Group of 89 members" of the Basic Law Consultative and Drafting Committees,[1] a group of conservative business and professional leaders which opposed to faster pace of democraticsation.
It maintained close relationship with other parties of business background, especially the Liberal Party.
[2] 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.
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