In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Tsang. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Donald Tsang and the Chinese-style name is Tsang Yam-kuen.
The Honourable Sir[a]
Donald Tsang
GBM KBE
曾蔭權
Tsang in 2012
2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
In office 21 June 2005[b] – 30 June 2012
President
Hu Jintao
Premier
Wen Jiabao
Preceded by
Tung Chee-hwa
Succeeded by
Leung Chun-ying
Chief Secretary for Administration
In office 1 May 2001 – 31 May 2005
Chief Executive
Tung Chee-hwa
Preceded by
Anson Chan
Succeeded by
Rafael Hui
Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
In office 1 July 1997 – 30 April 2001
Chief Executive
Tung Chee-hwa
Succeeded by
Anthony Leung
In office 1 September 1995 – 30 June 1997
Governor
Chris Patten
Preceded by
Hamish Macleod
Secretary for the Treasury
In office 7 May 1993 – 31 March 1995
Governor
Chris Patten
Preceded by
Yeung Kai-yin
Succeeded by
Kwong Ki-chi
Personal details
Born
Tsang Yam-kuen
(1944-10-07) 7 October 1944 (age 79) Hong Kong
Spouse
Selina Pou Siu-mei
(m. 1969)
Children
2
Residence(s)
111 Mount Butler Road, Jardine's Lookout
Education
Wah Yan College
Alma mater
Harvard University (MPA)
Profession
Politician, Civil Servant
Origin
Namhoi, Kwangtung[6]
Signature
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen
Traditional Chinese
曾蔭權
Simplified Chinese
曾荫权
Cantonese Yale
Jāng Yam-kyùhn or Jàng Yam-kyùhn
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zēng Yìnquán
IPA
[tsə́ŋ întɕʰɥɛ̌n]
Hakka
Romanization
Zen1 Yim4 Kien2[7]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jāng Yam-kyùhn or Jàng Yam-kyùhn
Jyutping
Zang1 Jam3-kyun4
IPA
[tsɐŋ˥ jɐm˧.kʰyːn˩]or [tsɐ̂ŋjɐ̄m.kʰy̏ːn]
Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuenGBM KBE[a][8] (Chinese: 曾蔭權; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.
Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration.[9] He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and gained his reputation internationally for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market in defending the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US dollar during the 1997 financial crisis.
Tsang became the Chief Secretary for Administration in 2001 and ran for the Chief Executive in 2005 after incumbent Tung Chee-hwa resigned. He served the remaining term of Tung and was re-elected in 2007. He served a full five-year term until he stepped down in 2012. In his seven years of term, he proposed two constitutional reform proposals in 2005 and 2010 and saw the second ones passed after he reached a compromise with the pro-democracy legislators, making it the first and only political reform proposals to be passed in the SAR history. He carried out a five-year policy blueprint and ten large-scale infrastructure projects during his term. His popularity began to decline after the introduction of the Political Appointments System which was marked by controversies and scandals.
In the last months of his term, Tsang was embroiled by various corruption allegations. He was subsequently charged by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and was found guilty of one count of misconduct in public office in February 2017 and was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment, becoming the highest officeholder in Hong Kong history to be convicted and imprisoned. His name was later cleared when the Court of Final Appeal unanimously quashed his conviction and sentence in June 2019, on the ground that the trial judge had misdirected the jury.[10]
^"Hong Kong". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 1283–4. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 27 June 2005.
^"Sir Donald Tsang". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 878. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 12 July 2005.
^"Hong Kong". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 736. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 17 October 2005.
^"Legislative Council of Hong Kong – Meeting record, bottom of the page listed: "Patron: The Honourable Sir Donald Tsang, GBM, KBE"" (PDF). Legislative Council of Hong Kong. 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
^"曾荫权家乡南海九江镇变成旅游热点" (in Chinese (China)). China Internet Information Center. 17 June 2005. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
^"Search". Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015. Association for Conversation of Hong Kong Indigenous Languages Online Dictionary for Hong Kong Hakka and Hong Kong Punti (Weitou dialect)
^"Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Biography". Hong Kong Government. 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
^"A Rarity in Hong Kong: Budget Is in Deficit". The New York Times. Reuters. 7 March 1996. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
^Lau, Chris (22 July 2019). "Hong Kong's former leader Donald Tsang to find out whether his misconduct conviction will be quashed in Court of Final Appeal judgment". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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