Further to that, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya and more than 15 years ago, he was a Malaysian politician who has never lost a general election in his two decade political career.

He was the former deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the then-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition formerly Minister of Transport from 1 July 2003 to 18 March 2008. in 2008, Chan was awarded 'Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia' with the title of 'Tan Sri' by Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Chan Kong Choy was born in Bentong, Pahang on 17 May 1955 to an ethnic Malaysian Chinese family of Cantonese descent with ancestry from Yunfu, Guangdong, China.

After contested and won the parliamentary seat of Lipis, Pahang in the 1990 general election, Chan was elevated by the party leadership and made a Deputy Minister in the Culture, Arts and Tourism Ministry.

Chan did not defend his parliamentary seat in the 12th general elections held on 18 March 2008 thus stepped down from his cabinet post as Transport Minister citing health reasons and to make way for young blood.

[4] In 2016, Chan donated his personal collection of literary works on 'The Dream of The Red Chamber', one of the four greatest classical novels in Chinese literature to University of Malaya.