Kwong Hon-sang
Traditional Chinese鄺漢生
Simplified Chinese邝汉生

Ir Kwong Hon-sang, GBS, JP (Chinese: 鄺漢生; 7 August 1938 – 14 February 2019) was a Hong Kong government official. He was the Secretary for Works from 1995 to 1999.

Kwong was born in 1938 and was educated at the Wah Yan College, Kowloon. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1963 and a Master of Science from the University of Birmingham on Transportation and Environmental Planning. He joined the Public Works Department of the Hong Kong government in 1963, where he was involved in the traffic management and technology as well as various highway projects. He became the director of the Lantau Fixed Crossing (Tsing Ma Bridge) project in March 1992.[1] He served as Director of Highways from 3 December 1993.[1] In 1995 he became Secretary for Works until his retirement in 1999.[2]

Kwong was a former president of the HKU Engineering Alumni Association and the president of the Hong Kong Institution of Highways and Transportation. He was also a council member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science, and a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Kwong died on 14 February 2019.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Highway projects 'satisfactory and all on schedule'". South China Morning Post. 16 December 1993.
  2. ↑ "Kwong Hon-sang, who oversaw Tsing Ma Bridge project, dies". The Standard. 28 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "前工務局局長鄺漢生逝世 享年80歲". Apple Daily. 28 February 2019.
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