Chung was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He was inspired by
Mao Zedong Thought when he was young and joined the
pro-Beijing organisation Hok Yau Club in 1974, where he went on to become its president. During the 1980s when the colonial government introduced elections to the
District Boards, he participated in the discussion in the club which decided not to participate. He first contested in the
1988 District Board elections, where he initially considered standing in
North Point, but switched with
Chan Yuen-han and ran in
Chai Wan, where he lost the
Reform Club's
Brook Bernacchi and nonpartisan Wong Ming-kuen. He is widely known by the nickname "Tree Gun", direct translation and transliteration of the two characters of his Chinese name, respectively. He was surprisingly defeated by
Chui Chi-kin, an "umbrella soldier" inspired by the
2014 Hong Kong protests almost unknown to the public before he was elected in the
2015 District Council election with 2,017 votes against Chung's 1,829 votes in
Yue Wan, which ended his 25-year service as District Councillor. After having been listed by the party as a candidate for the
2016 Legislative Council election, he was dropped in May 2016 when the party decided to field only one candidate list in Hong Kong Island, to be led by
Horace Cheung. He protested the party's decision and considered running as an independent. ==Personal life==