The Hong Kong Army Cadets Association (Chinese:香港青少年軍總會), established on 18 January 2015, is a Hong Kong Uniformed Youth Group (Chinese:香港青少年制服團體), it is connected with the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong.[1] Established with the aims "To contribute the city and serve the Fatherland".[2] The Hong Kong Army Cadets Association is a development of the Military Summer Camp For Hong Kong Youth (Chinese:香港青少年軍事夏令營) scheme organised by Betty Tung Chiu Hung-ping, the wife of former Chief Executive of Hong KongTung Chee-hwa, and the core of the estimated 2000 strong membership[3] is made up of attendees of the summer camps; the target membership of the Association is children and youths from the age of six upwards.[4] Of the Hong Kong Uniformed Youth Groups, the Association is the only one to use People's Liberation Armymilitary drill,[5] and its uniforms, emblems and structure is based on that of the PLA.
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The Association shares a similar name to the pre-existing Hong Kong Army Cadets, the Hong Kong Army Cadets is not a recognised uniformed group by the Hong Kong Government, is not a registered company but is registered under the SAR's societies legislation, unlike the Association the Hong Kong Army Cadets use British Army based drill, uniforms, structure and firearms.[7]
History
The Association builds on the work of the Military Summer Camp For Hong Kong Youth (Chinese:香港青少年軍事夏令營) scheme headed by Betty Tung Chiu Hung-ping, the wife of former Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee-hwa. The summer camp program began in 2005 running for two weeks every July. Aimed at secondary school students from the third to sixth years (ages 14 to 17) the summer camps featured a program of leadership training, military drill, Junshi Sanda and an education program to further understanding of the PRC and PLA.
In November 2016, the Association was granted the lease of a disused school in Kowloon over two other long established groups the Boys' Brigade, Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Adventure Corps both with many more members than the Association.[11][12] Although the process was described as transparent and fair by the government, the move was seen as an example of favouritism by others; especially since the Association's finances was seen as being one of the factors in which it was superior, however a large part of the Associations finances derive from expedited grants from the SAR government.
See also
Civic Passion, a localist Hong Kong political movement that announced that it would be creating a youth program that would feature military style training
