Li, Newman 1997, p. 217: « During the 1980's many liberal democratic groups formed in Hong Kong to represent the emerging educated middle class. Through the 1980's and into the early 1990's, these groups merged into larger political parties, these interests now generally represented by the larger Democratic Party […] The UDHK merged with the Meeting Point in 1994 to form the Democratic Party». (EN) Pang-kwong Li e David Newman, Give and take: Electoral politics in transitional Hong Kong, in Asian Perspective, vol. 21, n. 1, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 213-232, JSTOR42704125.