Second term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong

The Second term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong, or Tung administration, officially considered part of "The 2nd term Chief Executive of Hong Kong", relates to the period of governance of Hong Kong since the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, between 1 July 2002 and 12 March 2005 until Tung Chee-hwa resigned from the office and the rest of the term was taken up by former Chief Secretary for Administration Donald Tsang.

Second Tung Chee-hwa Government

2nd Government of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region
Date formed1 July 2002 (2002-07-01)
Date dissolved12 March 2005 (2005-03-12)
People and organisations
Head of stateJiang Zemin (until 2003)
Hu Jintao (since 2003)
Head of governmentTung Chee-hwa
No. of ministers14
Member partiesDAB, LP, FTU, TA
Status in legislaturePro-Beijing majority
Opposition partyPro-democracy camp
History
Election(s)2002 Chief Executive election
Legislature term(s)2nd Legislative Council
3rd Legislative Council
PredecessorFirst Tung administration
SuccessorFirst Tsang administration

Election
Main article: 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election

Incumbent Tung Chee-hwa was nominated by the 800-member Election Committee (EC) without contest despite his declining popularity. The pro-democracy camp argued that the electoral process was deliberately designed to obstruct any challenge to Tung.

Cabinet

Under the Principal Officials Accountability System introduced by Tung Chee-hwa in July 2002, there were 3 Secretaries of Department and 11 Directors of Bureau. Under the new system, all heads of bureaux became members of the Executive Council, and came directly under the Chief Executive instead of the Chief Secretary or the Financial Secretary.

Ministry

Two major officials under serve criticisms resigned during the political crisis in July 2003: Financial Secretary Antony Leung resigned in July after the "Lexusgate" scandal and Secretary for Security Regina Ip after the controversial Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 legislation.

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officeParty
Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa1 July 200212 March 2005Nonpartisan
Chief Secretary for Administration Donald Tsang1 May 200131 May 2005Nonpartisan
Financial Secretary Antony Leung1 May 200116 July 2003Nonpartisan
 Henry Tang5 August 2003Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung1 July 1997Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for the Civil Service Joseph Wong1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology Henry Tang1 July 20023 August 2003Nonpartisan
 John Tsang5 August 2003Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Stephen Lam1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Economic Development and Labour Stephen Ip1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works Sarah Liao1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Frederick Ma1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong1 July 200211 October 2004Nonpartisan
 York Chow12 October 2004Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands Michael Suen1 July 2002Tsang INonpartisan
Secretary for Security Regina Ip1 July 200224 July 2003Nonpartisan
 Ambrose Lee5 August 2003Tsang INonpartisan

Executive Council non-official members

The Executive Council was headed by Chief Executive and with total of 19 members: 3 secretaries and 11 directors of the bureaux as official members and 5 non-official members. All non-official members except for Convenor Leung Chun-ying was newly appointed by Tung Chee-hwa.

Tung allied himself with the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and the Liberal Party,[1] by appointing chairmen of the Liberal Party and DAB, James Tien and Jasper Tsang Yok-sing to the Executive Council to form a "ruling alliance."[2]

On 5 July 2003, James Tien resigned from the ExCo to show objection to the legislation of Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, after more than 500,000 people marched on 1 July. Tung later on appointed Selina Chow, also from the Liberal Party to replace Tien.

In October 2004, Tung appointed two additional non-official members to the Executive Council.

Members Affiliation Portfolio Took Office Left Office Ref
CY Leung Nonpartisan Non-official Convenor of the ExCo;
Chartered surveyor		 1 July 1997 Tsang I
Jasper Tsang DAB Legislative Councillor 1 July 2002 Tsang I
Cheng Yiu-tong FTU General secretary of FTU 1 July 2002 Tsang I
Andrew Liao Nonpartisan Former deputy judge of High Court 1 July 2002 Tsang I [3]
James Tien Liberal Legislative Councillor 1 July 2002 5 July 2003
Selina Chow Liberal Legislative Councillor 22 September 2003 Tsang I
Laura Cha Nonpartisan Non-executive deputy chairman of HSBC 19 October 2004 Tsang I [4]
Bernard Chan Alliance Businessman and politician 26 October 2004 Tsang I

See also

References
  1. Staff reporter (13 June 2002). "Tung set to strengthen power base". The Standard. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
  2. Michael DeGolyer (1 January 2003). "Stating the obvious". The Standard. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
  3. "The Honourable Andrew LIAO Cheung-sing, GBS, SC, JP". Executive Council. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. "The Honourable Mrs Laura CHA SHIH May-lung, GBS, JP". Executive Council. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
Preceded by
Tung I		 Government of Hong Kong
2002–2005		 Succeeded by
Tsang I
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