Chung Sze-yuen

Chung Sze-yuen
The Honourable
Sir Sze-yuen Chung
Convenor of the Executive Council
In office
1 July 1997 - 30 June 1999
Succeeded by Leung Chun-ying
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1974-1978
Preceded by Woo Pak-chuen
Succeeded by Oswald Cheung
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Executive Council
In office
1980-1988
Preceded by Yuet Keung Kan
Succeeded by Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn
Personal details
Born 3 November 1917 (1917-11-03) (age 94)
Alma mater St. Paul's College
Saint John's University, Shanghai
University of Hong Kong

Sir Sze-yuen Chung, GBE, GBM (simplified Chinese: 钟士元; traditional Chinese: 鍾士元; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhōng Shìyuán; Jyutping: Zung1 Si6 Jyun4; born 3 November 1917 in Hong Kong) is a mechanical engineer, industrialist, business executive and politician in Hong Kong. He succeeded Sir Yuet Keung Kan, as the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in 1980 and served in the latter body until his first retirement from politics in 1988.

He once again became influential in Hong Kong politics when Tung Chee Hwa assumed the office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, when he was invited by Tung as the convenor of the non-official members of the Executive Council, from which he retired on 15 June 1999.[1]

Early life

Chung was born in 1917 to a middle class family in Hong Kong. In 1936, he went to Shanghai and studied civil engineering at Saint John's University, Shanghai. In 1939, he married Cheung Yung Hing in Jiangxi.

Due to the spread of Second Sino-Japanese War, Chung had to return to Hong Kong in 1941 before his undergraduate degree could be completed. He continued his study in mechanical engineering at the University of Hong Kong and graduated. After graduation, he worked as a mechanical engineer for Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. In 1948, he was awarded a scholarship from University of Sheffield, England. Three years later he earned his doctoral degree.

Chung returned to Hong Kong in 1951 and worked as mechanical engineer in a manufacturing firm for 1 year. In 1951, he established his own firm Chung Sze Yuen Engineering.

Honours

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Yuet Keung Kan
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member
in Executive Council

1980–1988
Succeeded by
Lydia Dunn
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by
Yuet Keung Kan
Senior Chinese Unofficial Member
in Legislative Council

1974–1978
Succeeded by
Oswald Cheung
Senior Unofficial Member
in Legislative Council

1974–1978
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Tsang Hin-chi
Recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal
Hong Kong order of precedence
Recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal
Succeeded by
Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales
Recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal



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