After serving Hong Kong for more than a decade, the red flying dragon may be on its way to forced retirement. For the past few months, the symbol used to promote the city has quietly disappeared from the lapels of most top officials.
"It has been quite a while, perhaps almost a year, since we saw the flying dragon in office," a source said.
Its replacement is the new "HK Our Home" logo, which combines "HK" and the Chinese character for "family" in purple and green, part of a campaign to promote "positive energy".
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was the first to display the new symbol on his T-shirt at recent meet-the-people sessions in Tin Shui Wai and Kwun Tong.
Most other top officials have also dropped their flying dragon lapel badges, but not labour minister Matthew Cheung Kin-chung who still sported the old badge during his duty visit to Beijing on Tuesday.