Lau was born in 1965, and belongs to the generation which grew up in the 1970s after the Hong Kong Government began active efforts to improve Hong Kong through major construction projects, building new roads, and providing Hong Kong residents with nine years of free education.
劉細良一九六五年出生，是七○年代港英政府開始積極治理香港，蓋大樓、開馬路，對港人實施九年免費教育後才成長的一代。