Donald Tsang
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The Honourable Donald Tsang GBM, KBE |
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| 曾蔭權 | |||||||||||||||||
Tsang at the World Economic Forum, 2012
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| 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||
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In office 21 June 2005 – 30 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Tung Chee-hwa | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Leung Chun-ying | ||||||||||||||||
| Chief Secretary for Administration | |||||||||||||||||
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In office 1 May 2001 – 31 May 2005 |
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| Chief Executive | Tung Chee-hwa | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Anson Chan | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Rafael Hui | ||||||||||||||||
| Financial Secretary of Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||
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In office 1 July 1997 – 30 April 2001 |
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| Chief Executive | Tung Chee-hwa | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Position re-established | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Anthony Leung | ||||||||||||||||
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In office 1 September 1995 – 30 June 1997 |
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| Governor | Chris Patten | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Hamish Macleod | ||||||||||||||||
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7 October 1944 Japanese Occupied Territory of Hong Kong |
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| Nationality | Hong Kong Chinese | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Selina Tsang (m. 1969) | ||||||||||||||||
| Children | Simon Tsang Hing-yin Thomas Tsang Hing-shun |
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| Alma mater |
Wah Yan College John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA) |
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| Profession | Politician, civil servant | ||||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zēng Yìnquán |
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| Romanization | Zen1 Yim4 Kien2 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jáng Yam Kyùhn |
| Jyutping | Zang1 Jam3 Kyun4 |
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM, KBE (Chinese: 曾蔭權; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant and the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.
Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration. He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and gained his reputation internationally for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market in defending the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar during the 1997 financial crisis.
Tsang became the Chief Secretary for Administration in 2001 and ran for the Chief Executive in 2005 after incumbent Tung Chee-hwa resigned. He served the remaining term of Tung and was re-elected in 2007. He served a full five-year term until he stepped down in 2012. In his seven years of term, he proposed two constitutional reform proposals in 2005 and 2010 and saw the second ones passed after reaching a compromise with the pro-democracy legislators, making it the first and only political reform proposals to be passed in the SAR history. He carried out a five-year policy blueprint and ten large-scale infrastructure projects during his term. His popularity began to decline after the introduction of the Political Appointments System which was marked by controversies and scandals.
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