Ng Chin Hung first began getting interested in village affairs in around 1980 when he was just 20 years old. His family owned a lot of land in and around Nga Tsin Wai, and his father and uncle were registered on the deeds of several ancestral houses. When Ng Chin Hung’s uncle was living in the US, the properties were taken care of by his father. As Ng Chin Hung cared about his family’s property holdings, he paid close attention to the development of Nga Tsin Wai. In 1984, Cheung Kong Holdings (“CKH”) mounted its own acquisition of village properties, offering prices of around HK$660,000. When Ng Chin Hung’s father died in 1990, the inheritance had become very complicated. It subsequently took three years to complete the necessary formalities Nga Tsin Wai was an urban walled village under the Old Schedule Lot. According to urban village regulations, his father’s estate should have been processed according to the clanship succession law of the Great Qing Legal Code. As a result, it should only have been inherited by male descendants. Ng Chin Hung and his brother smoothly completed the succession procedures in the District Office. By the time Ng Chin Hung’s uncle died in the US in 2005, Hong Kong had been returned to China and the clanship succession law had been replaced by a system emphasising equality between men and women. Ng Chin Hung’s uncle’s titles were so complex, they are still being processed in the courts.