John Tsang
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The Honourable John C Tsang GBM, JP |
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| 曾俊華 | |
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| Financial Secretary of Hong Kong | |
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In office 1 July 2007 – 16 January 2017 |
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| Chief Executive |
Donald Tsang Leung Chun-ying |
| Preceded by | Henry Tang |
| Succeeded by | Paul Chan |
| Director of the Chief Executive's Office | |
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In office 24 January 2006 – 30 June 2007 |
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| Chief Executive | Donald Tsang |
| Preceded by | Lam Woon-kwong |
| Succeeded by | Norman Chan |
| Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology | |
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In office 4 August 2003 – 24 January 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Tang |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Wong |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 April 1951 Hong Kong |
| Nationality |
American (until 1998) Hong Kong Chinese |
| Spouse(s) | Lynn Tsang |
| Children | Terence Prudence |
| Alma mater |
La Salle College Stuyvesant High School MIT School of Architecture and Planning Boston State College John F. Kennedy School of Government |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Traditional Chinese | 曾俊華 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 曾俊华 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zēng Jùnhuá |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jāng Jeun wàh |
| Jyutping | Zang1 Zeon3 waa4 |
John Tsang Chun-wah, GBM, JP (Chinese: 曾俊華; born 21 April 1951) is a Hong Kong senior civil servant and government official who was the longest-serving Financial Secretary in the SAR period.
Born in Hong Kong and raised and educated in the United States, Tsang worked in the Hong Kong government for more than thirty years. He was the private secretary to the last colonial governor Chris Patten and was promoted to Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology in 2003. He worked as director of the Office of the Chief Executive under Donald Tsang administration from 2006 to 2007.
In July 2007, he was appointed Financial Secretary by Donald Tsang. He proposed the Scheme $6,000 tax rebate to all Hong Kong residents in his 2011 Budget. He continued to serve in the Leung Chun-ying administration until January 2017, when he resigned in order to run in the 2017 Chief Executive election.
Tsang's great grandfather was from Taishan, Guangdong. He made his fortune as a labourer in San Francisco. His grandfather was a well-off Chinese physician-turned-businessman. His father, Tsang Chuek-ho, was the eldest child of eight siblings. Graduated from normal schools, Tsang Chuek-ho and his wife planned to move to the United States, where his sister was living, through Hong Kong in the 1940s.
While waiting for the immigration process, the family settled in Hong Kong and had four children. Tsang Cheuk-ho and his children adapted the surname Mui when he was adopted by a relative in Hong Kong; they reverted to their original surname after emigrating to the United States. John Tsang, the eldest child, was born as Mui Chun-wah in Hong Kong on 21 April 1951 and lived in Sai Yeung Choi Street in his childhood.
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