Chen Daming (1919 – July 13, 2017), born Liang Ruikun, was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was a native of Jinding,

Xiangshan County, Guangdong Xiangshan County, also spelled Hsiangshan, Siangshan, Heungsan, and Heungshan, was a former county in Southern China. From 1912, it was a county in Guangdong Province, in the Republic of China. It was renamed Zhongshan (then usually romanized "C ...

(now part of

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Jinwan Town,

Zhuhai Zhuhai; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Jyūhói''; Chinese postal romanization, also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern ...

City). In June 1983, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Branch of

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, responsible for overseeing the Social Work Department and the Cultural and Education Department. He retired in 1992 and authored the book ''Hong Kong Resistance''.On July 13, 2017, at 1:36 a.m., he died in Guangzhou at the age of 98.

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