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Born in 1929 and writing as Hung Chai-chai, Shum Kim-chi was editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Economic Journal, a veteran music critic and author. Born in Shanghai's foreign concessions, he fled the Japanese invasion to Hong Kong in 1938 and attended Diocesan Boys' School; after graduating from St. John's University in 1949 he returned to work in Hong Kong. Joining Rediffusion in 1956 as a programme director, he helped prepare the launch of RTV's television service in 1957 and briefly served as acting programme controller. He then worked as manager, editor-director and director at Sun Sun and later Phoenix, before moving to government in 1966 to help establish the Hong Kong Productivity Council and being posted to Japan. He became editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Economic Journal in 1986 and died in 2019 aged 90.