Post: | Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs |
Native Name: | Chinese: 政制及內地事務局局長 |
Insignia: | Regional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Hong Kong |
Department: | Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau |
Incumbent: | Erick Tsang |
Incumbentsince: | 22 April 2020 |
Style: | The Honourable |
Appointer: | Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive |
Inaugural: | Michael Suen |
Formation: | 1 March 1989 |
Precursor: | Deputy Chief Secretary |
Salary: | HK$4,021,200 per annum[1] |
Website: | CMAB |
The secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs is the head of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau in Government of Hong Kong, which is responsible for promoting the Basic Law, constitutional affairs, electoral development, and coordinate liaison between the Hong Kong government and the relevant mainland China authorities, as well as to promote various regional cooperation initiatives between Hong Kong and the mainland. Prior to 2007, this post was known as the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs.
The post was known as Deputy Chief Secretary between 1985 and 1989.
Political party:
width=10px | width=80px | Portrait | width=180px | Name | width=180px colspan=2 | Term of office | width=120px | Governor | Ref | |
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1 | Michael Suen 孫明揚 | 1 March 1989 | 29 October 1991 | [2] | ||||||
align=center rowspan=2 | 2 | Michael Sze 施祖祥 | 30 October 1991 | 27 January 1994 | [3] | |||||
Chris Patten | ||||||||||
3 | Nicholas Ng 吳榮奎 | 28 January 1994 | 30 June 1997 | [4] | ||||||
width=10px | width=80px | Portrait | width=180px | Name | width=180px colspan=2 | Term of office | width=80px | Duration | width=120px | Chief Executive | Ref | |
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bgcolor= align=center | 1 | Nicholas Ng Wing-fui 吳榮奎 | 1 July 1997 | 3 August 1997 | Tung Chee-hwa | |||||||
bgcolor= align=center | 2 | Michael Suen Ming-yeung 孫明揚 | 4 August 1997 | 30 June 2002 | ||||||||
bgcolor= rowspan=2 align=center | 3 | Stephen Lam Sui-lung 林瑞麟 | 1 July 2002 | 30 June 2007 | Tung Chee-hwa | [5] | ||||||
Donald Tsang | ||||||||||||
width=10px | width=80px | Portrait | width=180px | Name | width=180px colspan=2 | Term of office | width=80px | Duration | width=120px | Chief Executive | Ref | |
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bgcolor= align=center | 1 | Stephen Lam Sui-lung 林瑞麟 | 1 July 2007 | 30 September 2011 | Donald Tsang | [6] | ||||||
bgcolor= rowspan=2 align=center | 2 | Raymond Tam Chi-yuen 譚志源 | 30 September 2011 | 30 June 2017 | [7] | |||||||
Leung Chun-ying | [8] | |||||||||||
bgcolor= align=center | 3 | Patrick Nip Tak-kuen 聶德權 | 1 July 2017 | 22 April 2020 | Carrie Lam | [9] | ||||||
bgcolor= rowspan=2 align=center | 4 | Erick Tsang Kwok-wai 曾國衞 | 22 April 2020 | Incumbent | [10] | |||||||
John Lee | [11] |