New Progressive Alliance (Chinese: 新進步聯盟; NPA) is a proposed conservative political party led by New Territories rural leaders Hau Chi-keung and Leung Fuk-yuen planned to establish on 25 April 2016.
It is led by Hau Chi-keung, an ex officio member of the Heung Yee Kuk and chairman of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee.
[2] The rural leaders also grew dissatisfied with their pro-Beijing allies, with some asserting that they had not always spoken up for their villagers’ interests.
[1] Since late 2015, Bowie Hau Chi-keung, an ex officio member of the Heung Yee Kuk and chairman of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee had planned of setting up a new party for the indigenous interests.
The idea of establishing the party met opposition from 15 of the 27 rural committees led by Sha Tin Rural Committee chairman Mok Kam-kwai and mainly from the outlying islands and southern New Territories, who worried about the new party trying to hijack the Heung Yee Kuk.