The election results for the chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) were announced on March 25, 2012. Leung Chun-ying, former convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, honorary doctor & the honorary president of the Board of Regents of Shandong University, received 689 votes, was officially declared the winner of the election of the fourth-term Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Leung Chun-ying, whose ancestral home is Weihai, Shandong Province, was born in 1954 in Hong Kong. Leung graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic with a higher diploma in surveying, and later studied valuation and estate management in Britain for four years before returning to Hong Kong and joining a real estate firm in 1977.

Leung was the Convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong until his resignation in September 2011. In 1985, he was elected member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee, and was later elected the Secretary General of the Committee. Since 1997, he has served as a member of the executive council, and from 1999, he was the convenor of the executive meeting.

In October 2010, Leung was appointed the Honorary President of the Second Board of Regents of Shandong University. He participated the 110th Anniversary Celebration of SDU on October 15th 2011, and was conferred with an honorary doctoral degree during his stay.

Written by: Ji Rui

Edited by: Ben Hammer, Jing Zizhao

Source: Office for Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan Affairs,www.en.sdu.edu.cn,www.view.sdu.edu.cn