Leung Chun-ying

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Leung Chun-ying (2017)
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Leung Chun-ying , GBM , JP , ( Chinese  梁振英 , Pinyin Liáng Zhènyīng , Jyutping Loeng 4 Zan 3 jing 1 ; * August 12, 1954 in Hong Kong ), also known locally as CY , is a Chinese entrepreneur and politician from Hong Kong. He was Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017 .

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Early life

Leung is the only son in the family and has both older and younger sisters. When Leung was born in 1954 in the Southern District in the Pok Fu Lam district of Hong Kong, his father Leung Chung-Yan ( 梁忠恩 , Liang Zhōng'ēn , originally 梁中恩 ) was already 43 years old. Leung's family originally comes from the village of Xidoushan ( 西 豆 山村 , Xīdòushāncūn ) near Weihai in the Chinese province of Shandong . Due to the skills shortage in the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong in the 1930s, Leung's father and other police officers in the Republic of China were recruited to work in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong police called these compatriots from Shandong casually as "Shangdong police officers" ( cant. 山東 差  /  山东 差 , Shāndōng chāi , Jyutping saan 1 dung 1 caai 1 ).

As a member of the Hong Kong police, the family at the time was allowed to live in apartments in the so-called Hong Kong police dormitories. Leung's father was strict in raising his children. Leung went to school at King’s Catholic College on Hong Kong Island and received funding from the Hong Kong Police Department for good academic performance for five years. In the final grades, however, Leung missed the minimum qualification of the Hong Kong university admission and then made a tertiary degree in surveying at the then Hong Kong Polytechnic - since 1994 Hong Kong Polytechnic University . After graduating in 1974, he went to the UK and obtained a bachelor's degree in property management from the University of the West of England in 1977 .

Working life

From 1977 he worked for the renowned real estate company Jones Lang Wootton (later JLL ) in Hong Kong. Thanks to the construction boom, he soon became a multimillionaire. In 2006 he became the largest shareholder in the real estate company Debenham Thouard Zadelhoff, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange .

Leung married his wife Tong Ching Yee ( 唐 青 儀  /  唐 青 仪 , Táng Qīngyí , Jyutping Tong 4 Cing 1 ji 4 ) in 1981 and has three children with her, all with the abbreviation of the first name “CY”, in the sense of a generation name . The son's name is Chuen Yan; * 1989 ( 傳 昕  /  传 昕 , Chuánxīn , Jyutping Cyun 4 jan 1 ), the two daughters are called Chai Yan; * 1991, ( 齊 昕  /  齐 昕 , Qíxīn , Jyutping Cai 4 jan 1 ) and Chung Yan; * 1992, ( 頌 昕  /  颂 昕 , Sòngxīn , Jyutping Zung 6 jan 1 ).

Political career

In 1988, Leung got into politics and was part of the Hong Kong Constitution Advisory Committee that drafted the post-1997 city government draft. After Hong Kong was handed over to China, he became Minister for Housing. From 1999 he headed the cabinet.

Leung was elected Head of Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for a term of five years on March 25, 2012 by 689 votes from an electoral body of 1,200 men and women in the first ballot. For the civil rights movement, 689 has been symbolic of the hated Leung and his alleged mastermind in Beijing. He is accused of being a secret member of the Chinese Communist Party for a long time , which he has always denied.

He took up his post as head of government on July 1, 2012. In October 2014, protesters in Hong Kong finally called for his resignation.

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was elected as his successor for the term of office until 2022 on March 26, 2017 with 777 votes. She took office on July 1, 2017.

In the wake of the 2019 Hong Kong protests , Leung called for tougher measures against student Tony Tsang, who was shot by a police officer on October 1 in the course of violent protests in Tsuen Wan district . Not only did he advocate the expulsion of the student from his school, he also called for the headmaster to resign.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 傳媒 為 梁振英 尋根 揭 梁 父 兩 房 之 謎！ - The riddle about the two families of Leung's father! - The media in search of Leung Chun-ying's roots. In: eastweek.my-magazine.me. July 19, 2012, Retrieved October 8, 2019 (Chinese).
  2. ↑ a b c e-Ping Chen: Who is Leung Chun-ying. In: Wall Street Journal . March 25, 2012, accessed October 6, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Felix Lee: Prime Minister by the grace of Beijing. In: NZZ . October 3, 2014, accessed October 6, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b Andreas Lorenz: Mayor election in Hong Kong: Beijing's chameleon. Spiegel Online, March 25, 2012, accessed October 6, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b Ulrike Putze: Beijing's "Vampire" in Hong Kong. Spiegel Online, October 1, 2014, accessed October 6, 2014 .
  6. ^ Benedikt Voigt: Portrait: "I appreciate democracy extraordinarily". Der Tagesspiegel, April 3, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Austin Ramzy: Carrie Lam Is Sworn In as Hong Kong's First Female Leader . In: The New York Times . June 30, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 1, 2017]).
  8. ↑ THIS MEANS WAR: Anger and division at school of pipe-armed teen protester shot by HK police . In: Toronto Sun . October 2, 2019, Retrieved October 2, 2019 (Canadian English).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Leung is the family name here, Chun-ying is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Leung Chun-ying
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leung CY
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong