More diverse Hong Kong group named to CPPCC
Third of Hong Kong delegates to top political advisers are newcomers, and include bankers and other professionals as well as ex-officials
A broader group of representatives from Hong Kong has been named to the nation's top political advisory body than in previous years, an examination of the full list of delegates reveals.
Three of the city's leading property developers will remain in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Supporters of both Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and his rival Henry Tang Ying-yen have been named as advisers.
The final list of 2,237 appointees was released yesterday after a four-day meeting of the body's standing committee finished in Beijing on Friday.
The Hong Kong delegation has 124 members - two more than in the previous term - and at least 15 more from the city have been appointed as representatives of other groups.
Forty-three of the city's delegates are new. They include a number of professionals such as HSBC Asia-Pacific chief executive officer Peter Wong Tung-shun, Airport Authority chief executive officer Stanley Hui Hon-chung, former Hang Seng Bank chief executive officer Margaret Leung Ko May-yee and Institute of Urban Design president Bernard Lim Wan-fung.
Also on the list for the first time are Paul Kwong, the Anglican archbishop of Hong Kong and Macau, Baptist University president Professor Albert Chan Sun-chi, and Polytechnic University president Professor Timothy Tong Wai-cheung. They were joined by former officials including ex-police commissioner Tang King-shing and ex-commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Timothy Tong Hin-ming.