Tung Chee Hwa: Time to Turn the Page and Say Farewell to Negativities. Mr. Tung made the opening remarks at the Hong Kong Forum on US-China Relations.
Tung Chee Hwa -- Chairman of China-United States Exchange Foundation
Mr Tung Chee Hwa is the Vice Chairman of the Twelfth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, People's Republic of China. He is the Founding Chairman of the China-United States Exchange Foundation and Our Hong Kong Foundation. Prior to these appointments, Mr Tung served as First Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("HKSAR"), People's Republic of China from July 1997 to March 2005.
As the First Chief Executive of HKSAR, Mr Tung presided in the historical return of Hong Kong to China and successfully turned the "One Country Two Systems" and "Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong" with "high degree of autonomy" from a concept into an everyday reality.
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ("CPPCC") is one of the most important institutions of the People's Republic of China. Members of the CPPCC are made of distinguished former senior government officials, well known professionals, outstanding academics, members of different political parties and people from different religious and ethnic groups from all across China. Major responsibilities of the CPPCC are to participate in the formulation and development of policies, to monitor the work of the government and to promote consultative democracy. It plays a key role in ensuring that the opinions from the public at large are reflected to the government, and that government policies are communicated to the people.
The China-United States Exchange Foundation is a non-profit organisation registered in Hong Kong and was established in January 2008. Mr Tung is the Founding Chairman and is supported by friends in Hong Kong, China and the United States. The mission of the Foundation is to promote understanding and strengthening relationship between the US and China. This is being done by fostering open dialogue between opinion leaders from governments, think tanks, academia, media and business communities of both countries.
Our Hong Kong Foundation was established in Hong Kong in 2014. Its mission is to pool local, Mainland and international talents to study Hong Kong's short-, medium, and long term development needs and to offer multi-disciplinary public policy research and recommendations to the Hong Kong Government, other public service agencies and the populace at large.
Born in 1937 in Shanghai, Mr Tung spent his childhood in Hong Kong. He had his education in the United Kingdom, graduating at University of Liverpool with BSc in 1960. After that he lived and worked nine years in the United States with General Electric and in the family business respectively. In 1969, Mr Tung returned Hong Kong to help to run the family business. He had a successful and distinguished career in business while at the same time served in various public sector and advisory positions in Hong Kong. In 1997, he took on the position as the first Chief Executive of HKSAR.
董建華先生 —— 中美交流基金會及團結香港基金創會主席
董建華現任中國人民政治協商會議第十二屆全國委員會副主席。從1997年7月至2005年3月期間，董先生為中華人民共和國香港特別行政區首任行政長官。董先生亦為中美交流基金會及團結香港基金創會主席。
作為香港首任行政長官，董先生帶領香港回歸祖國，並落實“一國兩制”、“港人治港”、“高度自治”等理念。
中國人民政治協商會議（政協）是中華人民共和國最重要的政治架構之一，其主要功能是參與政府政策的制訂、監察政府的工作和推行協商民主。政協委員的工作亦包括向政府反映社情民意及向人民解釋政府政策的理念。政協委員是從全國各階層的精英及人才挑選委任，包括不同的宗教代表、少數民族、出色的退休政府官員、知名的學者、專業人士及不同的政黨組織。
中美交流基金會（基金會）是於2008年1月在香港註冊的非牟利組織。董先生擔任創會主席，並受到香港、國內及美國的朋友支持。基金會的宗旨是透過推動中美兩國的政府組織、智庫、學者、媒體和商界之間的交流，推進中美兩國的相互了解與合作。
團結香港基金於2014年成立，宗旨是集結本地、內地和國際精英，以香港整體和長遠利益，為香港特區政府、公共服務機構及廣大市民提供多元化的公共政策分析和建議。
董建華在1937年出生於上海，後隨家人來港生活。董先生赴英國接受中學及大學教育，並於1960年從英國利物浦大學獲取理學學士學位。之後，董先生分別在美國通用電器公司及董氏集團工作9年。1969年，董先生回港幫助管理家族事業。在出任香港特別行政區首任行政長官前，董先生一直在商界有出色表現，並在香港出任多項公職及參與不同諮詢組織工作。
