Hong Kong’s elite join leadership candidate John Lee’s campaign as Beijing watches

Among the Lee’s 58-member marketing campaign advisory staff are the city’s major property tycoons, which include CK Asset’s Li Ka-shing, Henderson Land Development’s Lee Shau Kee, Sun Hung Kai Properties’ Raymond Kwok and New World Development’s Henry Cheng.

Other advisers include former Entire world Wellbeing Business director-typical Margaret Chan, chairman of electric power business CLP Holdings Michael Kadoorie, and on line casino magnate Lui Che-woo.

Apart from the advisory crew that serves a honorary function, there is also a 90-member presidium that Lee is consulting to draft his system.

The presidium includes previous Hong Kong main secretary and a standing committee member of China’s top advisory human body the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Convention, Henry Tang, enterprise magnate Allan Zeman, former director of General public Prosecutions Grenville Cross, previous chief government of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) Charles Li, as effectively as motion picture star Jackie Chan.

Lee has secured 786 nominations from the 1,500 users of the election committee in charge of picking out Hong Kong’s new leader, better than the 188 nominations demanded to run.

A previous profession law enforcement officer, Lee is widely envisioned to prioritise stability issues if he gets the leading task, getting previously urged new legislation to completely put into practice a sweeping countrywide stability regulation Beijing imposed on the city in 2020.

Lee explained he will be the conductor to “a new symphony” early this month when he announced his candidacy. He stated loyalty to China’s central government was a precedence for any chief govt and element of his system will contain accelerating programs to resolve the city’s chronic housing shortage.