Sam Yip

Yip was born in Hong Kong in 1987 and was raised in the district of Sai Ying Pun. He studied at St.Louis School (Primary Section) and King's College。 Since young age, Yip has been passionate about transportation vehicles, especially buses, the MTR and airplanes. This adoration towards airplanes has lead him to study aircraft maintenance in the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, but due to the lack of prosperity down the career path in this industry, he decided to leave in search of other occupation. Being a Japanese anime enthusiast, Yip has self-taught Japanese and taken JLPT exams. With the help of his boss at his part-time job, he joined a Japanese-funded company that specializes in preparing concerts. After taking a working holiday in Japan, he returned to Hong Kong as a project consultant and event supervisor for Creative Paradise of ACGHK.

Running as a non-partisan candidate for the 2019 elections he won the seat with 55.27% (3,087)[1] of the vote. From February 2016, Sam Yip ran a 'shadow' district council to "host community photography classes, set up mobile book exchange counters, and teach senior citizens how to use mobile phones (whilst filtering “fake news” circulating on their Whatsapp groups). The venue was also opened up to NGOs."[2]