Hong Kong’s incoming leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has taken a safe route in forming her cabinet as it mostly comprises incumbents and promotees from within the current administration, the official announcement confirms.
According to a press release issued by Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday morning, Beijing has approved Lam’s ministerial choices. The chief executive-elect is only bringing in one outsider: former Democratic Party member and social-policy scholar Dr Law Chi-kwong. Law is the second pan-democrat to join the administration since Hong Kong’s handover in 1997 from British to Chinese rule, after outgoing housing minister Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung.
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