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Key facts
- President
- Hu Jintao , Xi Jinping
- Premier
- Wen Jiabao , Li Keqiang
- Preceded by
- Donald Tsang
- Succeeded by
- Carrie Lam
- Chairman
- Yu Zhengsheng , Wang Yang , Wang Huning
- Appointed by
- Tung Chee-hwa , Donald Tsang
- Born
- ( 1954-08-12 ) 12 August 1954 (age 71) , Queen Mary Hospital , Pok Fu Lam , Hong Kong
- Party
- Progressive Hong Kong Society (1980s) , New Hong Kong Alliance (1990s)
- Spouse
- Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 )
- Education
- King's College
- Alma mater
- Hong Kong Polytechnic ( HD ), Bristol Polytechnic ( BS )
- Origin
- Weihaiwei , Shandong
- Nickname
- CY Leung
- Chinese
- 梁 振 英
- Hanyu pinyin
- Liáng Zhènyīng
- Ipa
- [lja ̌ ŋ ʈʂə ̂ ni ́ ŋ]
- Romanization
- Liong Zin Yin
- Yale romanization
- Lèuhng Janyīng
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- British Hong Kong
- Spouse
- Regina Leung
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- King's College
- Languages spoken
- Standard Chinese
- Native language
- Yue Chinese
- Image
- Leung Chun-ying at 2013 Policy Address 03 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Government House
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- permanent resident of
- Hong Kong
- Commons category
- Leung Chun-ying
- candidacy in election
- 2012 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
- social media followers
- 3649
- date of birth
- 1954-08-12
- P10632
- CY Leung
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Encyclopedic overview
Leung Chun-ying GBM GBS JP KCM (Chinese: 梁振英; born 12 August 1954), also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since March 2017. He was previously the third Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2017.
A surveyor by profession, Leung entered politics when he joined the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee (HKBLCC) in 1985 and became its secretary-general in 1988. In 1999, he was appointed the convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, a position he held until 2011, when he resigned to run in the 2012 Chief Executive election. Initially regarded as the underdog, Leung ran a successful campaign against front-runner Henry Tang, receiving 689 votes from the Election Committee and with the support of the Liaison Office.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CY Leung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.