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 Financial secretary is an administrative and executive government position within the governance of a state, corporation, private or public organization, small group or other body with financial assets. A financial secretary oversees policy con ...

. 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 A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the Brit ...

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 Government of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government. It aims to be the most insightful, resourceful and leading public archives in Hong Kong. The department is s ...

* Office of Former Chief Executives * Legal Aid Department

Directors

* Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (1989–1991) * Nicholas Ng Wing-fui (1991–1994) * Richard John Freer Hoare (1994–1997) * Carrie Yau Tsang Kar-lai (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 China, constitutional principle of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of China, special administrative regions of Hong ...

' 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) was a pro-democracy camp, pro-democracy liberalism in Hong Kong, liberal political party from March 2006 to May 2023 in Hong Kong. The party was formed in 2006 on the basis of the Article 45 Concern Group, Basic Law Ar ...

lawmaker Claudia Mo 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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