Administration Wing () of the Office of the Chief Secretary for Administration is an executive agency in the Government of Hong Kong, reporting directly to the Chief Secretary and Financial Secretary. It is mainly responsible to oversee the effective functioning of the Government Secretariat machinery and managing the relations between the government and the Legislative Council,

Judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

, independent statutory agencies, consular missions. *

Child agencies

* Protocol Division *

Government Records Service Government Records Service (GRS) is the central records management service agency of the Hong Kong Government. It aims to be the most insightful, resourceful and leading public archives in Hong Kong. The department is subordinate to the Adminis ...

* Office of Former Chief Executives *

Legal Aid Department The Legal Aid Department often abbreviated as LAD, is a department in the Government of Hong Kong. It provides legal aid in legal representation In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defenda ...

Directors

* Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (1989-1991) *

Nicholas Ng Wing-fui Nicholas Ng Wing-fui, GBS, CBE, JP (; born 20 November 1946) is a former Hong Kong government official and former chairman of the Public Service Commission. Biography Ng graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1970 with a Bachelor of Soci ...

(1991–1994) * Richard John Freer Hoare (1994–1997) *

Carrie Yau Tsang Kar-lai :''This is a Hong Kong name; Tsang is the maiden name and Yau is the married name.'' Carrie Yau Tsang Kar-lai (; ' Tsang; born 4 June 1955) is a former Hong Kong government official. She was graduated from the University of Hong Kong and Somerv ...

(1997–2000) * Andrew Wong Ho-yuen (2000–2004) * Chang King-yiu (2004–2006) * Elizabeth Tse Man-yee (2006–2007) * Jennifer Mak Yee-ming (2007–2012) * Kitty Choi Kit-yu (2012–2019) * Esther Leung Yuet-yin (2019–2020) * Daniel Cheng Chung-wai (2020-2022) * Brian Lo Sai-hung (2022-)

Controversies

Avoiding the use of politically-incorrect terms, e.g. "China-Hong Kong Relations'

On 17 February 2015, the Administration Wing has issued an internal guidance about the usage of politically correct terminologies. They have told other governmental departments to standardise the use of language in correspondence involving the city's sovereignty and external relations, for instance addressing issues relating to China-Hong Kong Relations as 'Mainland-Hong Kong Relations' instead, or quoting related terms such as '

One Country Two Systems "One country, two systems" is a Constitution of the People's Republic of China, constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of China, special administrative r ...

' or 'Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong'. The spokesperson of the agency claimed that the guidance imposed were to allow the wordings to be in align with the provisions stipulated in the Basic Law. However, the

Civic Party The Civic Party (CP) is a pro-democracy liberal political party in Hong Kong. It is currently chaired by barrister Alan Leong. The party was formed in 2006 on the basis of the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group, which was derived from the B ...

lawmaker

Claudia Mo Claudia Mo (born Mo Man-ching on 18 January 1957), also known as Claudia Bowring, is a Hong Kong journalist and politician, a member of the pan-democracy camp. She represented the Kowloon West geographical constituency, until November 2020 wh ...

then have criticised the act, which would effectively introduce

Mainland Chinese Mainland Chinese or Mainlanders are Chinese people who live in or have recently emigrated from mainland China, defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) except for Hong Kong ( SAR of the PRC), Macau (SAR of the PRC), ...

terms into official documents.

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