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Chung Sze Yuen

The Honourable
Sir Sze Yuen Chung
GBE GBM
1st Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council
In office
1 July 1997 – 30 June 1999
Succeeded by Leung Chun-Ying
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1974–1978
Preceded by Woo Pak-chuen
Succeeded by Sir Oswald Cheung
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Executive Council
In office
1980–1988
Preceded by Sir Yuet-Keung Kan
Succeeded by Baroness Dunn
Personal details
Born (1917-11-03) 3 November 1917 (age 99)
Alma mater St. Paul's College
Saint John's University, Shanghai
University of Hong Kong
University of Sheffield
Chung Sze-yuen
Traditional Chinese 鍾士元
Simplified Chinese 钟士元

Sir Sze-yuen Chung GBM GBE FREng (Chinese: 鍾士元; born 3 November 1918 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong mechanical engineer, industrialist, business executive and politician. He succeeded Sir Yuet-Keung Kan, as the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in 1980 and served in the latter body until his first retirement from politics in 1988.

He once again became influential in Hong Kong politics when Tung Chee-Hwa assumed the office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong; Tung appointed him as the Convenor of the Executive Council, from which he retired on 15 June 1999.

Chung was born in 1917 to a middle-class family in Hong Kong. In 1936, he went to Shanghai and studied civil engineering at Saint John's University, Shanghai. In 1939, he married Cheung Yung-Hing in southeastern Chinese province of Jiangxi (Kiangsi).

Due to the spread of Second Sino-Japanese War, Chung had to return to Hong Kong in 1941 before his undergraduate degree could be completed. He continued his study in mechanical engineering at the University of Hong Kong and graduated. After graduation, he worked as a mechanical engineer for Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. In 1948, he was awarded a scholarship from University of Sheffield. Three years later he earned his doctorate.


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