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In Hong Kong, the Political Appointments System is a scheme introduced by then chief executive Donald Tsang in 2008 to reinforce the government's ministerial team by superseding the Principal Officials Accountability System and inserting two layers of politically appointed officials below the secretaries, who are political appointees.
Mr. Tse Tsin Wan is the Secretary of the Environment and Ecology Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, appointed on July 1, 2022. [24] He joined the Environmental Protection Agency (now the Environmental Protection Department) in Hong Kong in 1985 and has since held various professional and senior management positions. [25]
With the legislating of the National Security Law constraining the pro-democracy movement and the opposition camp, there was virtually no opposition in Hong Kong. [1] [2] [3] Legislation were passed in the legislature without obstacle, [4] especially after 2021 election which saw electoral changes being implemented afterwards, affecting the composition of the Legislative Council.
The Hong Kong Civil Service is managed by 13 policy bureaux in the Government Secretariat, and 67 departments and agencies, mostly staffed by civil servants. The Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS) is one of the Principal Officials appointed under the Accountability System and a Member of the Executive Council .
Under the Community Involvement Plan, launched in the early 1970s, Hong Kong and Kowloon were divided into 74 areas, each of around 45,000 people. For each, an ' area committee ' of twenty members was then appointed by the city district officers, and was comprised, for the first time, of members from all sectors of the local community, led by ...
The Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), from which the Hong Kong government is financially independent, is responsible for Hong Kong SAR's defence and foreign policy, while decisions made by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress can, in certain circumstances, override territorial judicial processes.
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The Hong Kong Harbour Fest, held from 17 October to 11 November 2003, was part of a HK$1 billion program to revive the economy after SARS. The event was a Government underwritten, and organised by InvestHK , under the auspices of the Economic Relaunch Working Group, in collaboration with the American Chamber of Commerce. [ 27 ]