Education
He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a bachelor degree in civil engineering in 1978.
He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a bachelor degree in civil engineering in 1978.
He is a trade union leader and General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, as well as former chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China. Lee emigrated from Mainland China to Hong Kong in 1959. Since his university days, he has been a labour and pro-democracy activist.
During the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he collected donations from Hong Kong and travelled to Beijing to hand over the funds to student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
He was detained by the authorities there and made to sign a confession letter before being allowed to return to Hong Kong. In 1995, Lee was elected unopposed in a by-election of the Legislative Council, replacing Lau Chinese-shek, who had resigned.
He has since been re-elected four times, continuously serving as a lawmaker, except for a brief period during 1997 and 1998, when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People"s Republic of China, and the Legislative Council temporarily became a Provisional Legislative Council, composed of Beijing nominees. In December 2011, he and three other s Fernando Cheung, Cyd Ho and Cheung Kwok-che co-founded the, becoming the third largest pan-democratic parties in the legislature.
He served as chairman until December 2015 when he stepped down to give way to the youngsters and took the vice-chairmanship.
They have one daughter.
Labour Party, The Frontier.
Since the events of 1989, Lee has remained a standing committee member of the pro-Chinese democracy group, The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China.