Henry Tang Ying Yen
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The Honourable Henry Tang Ying-yen GBM, GBS, JP |
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| Chief Secretary for Administration | |||||||||||||
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In office 1 July 2007 – 28 September 2011 |
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| Chief Executive | Donald Tsang | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Rafael Hui | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Stephen Lam | ||||||||||||
| Financial Secretary of Hong Kong | |||||||||||||
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In office 5 August 2003 – 30 June 2007 |
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| Chief Executive |
Tung Chee-hwa Donald Tsang |
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| Preceded by | Antony Leung | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | John Tsang | ||||||||||||
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Chief Executive of Hong Kong Acting |
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In office 25 May 2005 – 21 June 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Donald Tsang (Acting) | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Sir Donald Tsang | ||||||||||||
| 1st Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology | |||||||||||||
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In office 1 July 2002 – 3 August 2003 |
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| Chief Executive | Tung Chee-hwa | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | John Tsang | ||||||||||||
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6 September 1952 British Hong Kong |
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| Nationality | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
| Political party | Liberal Party (1993–2002) | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Kuo (m. 1984) | ||||||||||||
| Residence | 7 York Road, Kowloon Tong | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA) | ||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 唐英年 | ||||||||||||
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Henry Tang Ying-yen, GBM, GBS, JP (Chinese: 唐英年; born 6 September 1952, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong politician who served as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong between 2007 and 2011. He held the position of Financial Secretary from 2003 to 2007. In 2012, he lost the Hong Kong Chief Executive Election to Leung Chun-ying.
Tang's family operated in the textile industry and came from Wuxi, Jiangsu to Hong Kong in 1949 to escape the communists that were taking over the Chinese mainland. Henry Tang himself was born in what was then British Hong Kong in 1952. Tang went to Culford School, Suffolk, UK and graduated from Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, MI and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of class of 1975.
Tang has extensive ties with PRC leaders as his father Tang Hsiang Chien was a former standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the advisory body to the National People's Congress.
Tang was named Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1993 and won the Young Industrialist of Hong Kong award in 1989.
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