# Tung Chee-hwa: From ‘Shipping King’s’ Son to Hong Kong’s First Chief Executive

https://mins.news/en/item/50231

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-08 18:50 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cx2n75en5g6o/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s former chief executive and a former vice-chairman of the national political advisory body, died in Hong Kong on September 9 at 89. Born into a shipping family, he became the city’s first chief executive after the 1997 handover, faced the Asian financial crisis, SARS and a national-security law dispute, then resigned after two years of mass July 1 protests.

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