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SCMP Reporter

Tung Chee-hwa. aged 59   Mr Tung became the first chief executive with a landslide victory of 80 per cent of the votes of the Selection Committee on December 11.

  He shot to favourite for the job when Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin seemingly singled him out for a warm handshake.

  He has come under strong criticism for supporting the recommentations of the legal sub-group of the Preparatory Committee to restore draconian laws, raising concern that freedom of expression could be impaired after the handover.

  He is the eldest son of the late shipping tycoon C Y Tung, was born in Shanghai in 1937 and was educated in China, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

  After living in the US for almost a decade, he returned to Hong Kong in 1969 and immersed himself in his father's shipping empire.

  Mr Tung has been a high-level adviser of the Chinese government as vice-chairman of the Preparatory Committee and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee.

  Sir Sze-yuen Chung, convenor, aged 79   Once tipped to be a candidate for chief executive, Sir Sze-yuen has been a top adviser to both the colonial Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Government.

  He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1965 and was senior member between 1974 and 1978.

  He was an appointed Executive Councillor between 1972 and 1980 and then senior member until he stepped down in 1988.

  Before the Sino-British Joint Declaration was struck, he visited Beijing and met paramount leader Deng Xiaoping to air the views of Omelco members.

  China appointed him a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser, and then he was invited to join the Preliminary Working Committee, the Preparatory Committee and the Selection Committee which chose Mr Tung and the provisional legislature.

  Dr Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung, 44, appointed Executive Councillor since 1992. He was also a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser to the Chinese Government and a member of the Selection Committee member. He has been active in the business sector as ex-chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. He sits on a number of statutory bodies, such as the Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre Corporation, of which he is chairman. Born in Japan, he was also the chairman of the Hong Kong/Japan Business Co-operation Committee, Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited.

  Chung Shui-ming, 45, chief executive of the Special Administrative Region Government Land Fund and youngest member to join the Chinese team in the Sino-British Land Commission. He was a leader of a pro-Beijing group when he studied at the Hong Kong University and graduated in 1976. He has been a senior researcher of the Economics Affairs Department of the Xinhua News Agency, a director of the Nanyang Commercial Bank and also a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser.

  Charles Lee Yeh-kwong, 60, is a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser and was chairman of Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1992.

  Nellie Fong Wong Kut-man, 47, was seen as high-flier in the pro-China camp when becoming convenor of the economic sub-group of the Preliminary Working Committee in mid-1993. An executive of Arthur Andersen & Co, she was an appointed legislator between 1988-91. She was appointed Hong Kong Affairs Adviser, a member of the Preparatory Committee and Selection Committee.

  Leung Chun-ying, 42, has long been involved in the shaping of the Basic Law as he has been the Chairman of the Basic Law Consultative Committee and a vice-chairman of the Preparatory Committee. He was one of the founders of the One Country Two Systems Economic Research Institute, which is regarded as being an important think-tank to the Chinese Government.

  Rosanna Wong Yick-ming, 44, was appointed to Exco 1988-91, and since 1992. She is now its convenor and Housing Authority chairman. She was appointed as a non-executive director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. She was recently named by the Queen as Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

  Tam Yiu-chung, 47, served on Legco in the labour functional constituency seat for 10 years from 1985 until his defeat by Democrat Fred Li Wah-ming in direct polls in 1995. A founder member and vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, he returned to governing mechanism when appointed chairman of the Employee Retraining Board in October 1995. Voted on to the provisional legislature with the most number of votes for any candidate, 345 out of 400. A labour activist who was vice-secretary general of the pro-China branch of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions.

  Antony Leung Kam-chung, 44, Hong Kong managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank. Former chairman of University and Polytechnic Grants Committee.

  Henry Tang Ying-yen, 44, Liberal Party Legislative Councillor of the Import and Export sector and chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. His father is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

  Yang Ti Liang, 67, was the first Chinese to attain the post of Chief Justice in 1988, nearly three decades after he first became a magistrate in 1956. Born in Shanghai, Mr Yang was knighted in 1988. However, he gave up his knighthood last year when he decided to run for the post of chief executive. The reputation of Mr Yang was slightly tarnished, however, when it was revealed that he described the Bill of Rights as creating social disorder early last year when he was still Chief Justice. Mr Yang has been chairman of the Hong Kong University Council since 1987.



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