Shipping businessman who became the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after its return to China in 1997, serving until 2005, and later a vice-chairman of the CPPCC.
During his term, Tung Chee-hwa pushed the '85,000 Housing Plan'.
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Hongkongers called him 董伯伯, 'Uncle Tung'. His 1997 pledge to build 85,000 flats a year, remembered simply as 八万五, was dropped by 2000 after the Asian financial crisis sent property prices tumbling.