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董建華（1937年7月7日–2026年9月8日），祖籍浙江舟山，父親是有「世界船王」之稱的航運鉅子董浩雲。他1937年7月7日在上海出生，1947年隨全家遷居香港，在香港修畢中學後於1954年赴英國求學，1960年在英國利物浦大學海事工程系畢業，其後留美工作十年，先後在美國通用電氣及家族公司任職，累積航運與管理經驗；1969年他返港參與家族航運事業；1973年4月，他帶領東方海外（國際）有限公司在香港掛牌上市；1976至1977年任香港船東協會主席，1979年出任東方海外（國際）有限公司主席及行政總裁；1980年父親董浩雲宣布退休，他全面接掌公司，把家族業務由傳統乾貨輪拓展至貨櫃運輸，全盛時期集團船隊逾一百五十艘、載重噸位逾千萬噸。1982年4月15日，父親董浩雲因心臟病逝世，終年七十歲，他接掌家族航運企業；1985年航運業陷入低潮，公司負債逾二百億港元，涉及逾二百家銀行，瀕臨破產，最終獲霍英東注資及銀行支持重組，至1992年轉虧為盈。他早於1985年出任香港特別行政區基本法諮詢委員會委員，1992年獲國務院港澳事務辦公室及新華社香港分社聘為首批港事顧問，同年獲港督彭定康委任為行政局非官守議員，1995年出任全國人大香港特別行政區籌備委員會副主任委員。1996年12月11日，他在推選委員會選舉中擊敗楊鐵樑、吳光正及李福善，當選香港特別行政區首任行政長官，1997年7月1日就任，2002年在無對手下自動當選連任。任內香港先後經歷亞洲金融風暴、禽流感、沙士疫情及2003年七一遊行；他1997年首份施政報告提出每年興建八萬五千個房屋單位的目標，其後因樓市低迷而調整，任內又推行母語教學、發展中藥港與數碼港、促成迪士尼樂園落戶香港（1999年簽約）及推行強積金（2000年）。2002年他推行高官問責制，改組問責局長團隊。2003年，政府就《基本法》第23條立法，引發約五十萬人上街，法案最終擱置；沙士過後，中央政府推出自由行及《內地與香港關於建立更緊密經貿關係的安排》（CEPA），他任內爭取中央支持以振興經濟。2005年3月10日，他以健康理由向中央提交辭職報告，稱長年每天工作十六至十八小時令健康受影響；同年3月12日獲增補為全國政協副主席，其後連任至2023年卸任。2014年他成立團結香港基金，並曾任中美交流基金會創會主席。2006年他獲頒大紫荊勳章，2019年獲國家榮譽稱號「一國兩制傑出貢獻者」。2026年9月8日晚，他在香港養和醫院病逝，終年89歲。
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Tung Chee-hwa (7 July 1937 – 8 September 2026), whose ancestral home was Zhoushan, Zhejiang, and whose father C. Y. Tung was known as the world's shipping king, was born in Shanghai and moved with his family to Hong Kong in 1947. He went to Britain to study in 1954, graduated in marine engineering from the University of Liverpool in 1960 and spent a decade working in the United States, first at General Electric and then in the family firm, before returning to Hong Kong in 1969 to join the family shipping business. He chaired the Hong Kong Shipowners Association in 1976–77 and in 1979 became chairman and chief executive of Orient Overseas (International) Limited. After his father died of a heart attack on 15 April 1982, aged seventy, he took over the family shipping line; in 1985 the firm nearly collapsed under more than HK$20 billion of debt involving over two hundred banks before Henry Fok's injection and a bank-led restructuring returned it to profit in 1992. As early as 1985 he sat on the Consultative Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, in 1992 was appointed one of the first Hong Kong Affairs Advisers and was also made an unofficial member of the Executive Council by Governor Chris Patten; in 1995 he became a vice-chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong SAR. On 11 December 1996 he defeated Yang Ti-liang, Peter Woo and Li Fook-shiu in the selection committee election and became the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR on 1 July 1997, taking a second term unopposed in 2002. His tenure covered the Asian financial crisis, avian flu, SARS and the 2003 mass march; his first policy address in 1997 set a target of building 85,000 housing units a year, later adjusted when the property market slumped, and his term also brought mother-tongue teaching, moves to develop a Chinese-medicine port and a Cyberport, a deal to bring Disneyland to Hong Kong in 1999 and the Mandatory Provident Fund in 2000. In 2002 he introduced the Principal Officials Accountability System. In 2003 the government's attempt to legislate for national security under Article 23 of the Basic Law drew about 500,000 people onto the streets, and the bill was shelved; after SARS, Beijing launched the Individual Visit Scheme and CEPA, which he lobbied for to revive the economy. On 10 March 2005 he submitted his resignation to Beijing on health grounds, saying that working sixteen to eighteen hours a day had damaged his health, and on 12 March he was made a CPPCC Vice-Chairman, serving across several national committees until 2023. He founded the Our Hong Kong Foundation in 2014 and was founding chairman of the China-United States Exchange Foundation. He received the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2006 and the national honorary title of Outstanding Contributor to One Country, Two Systems in 2019. He died at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital on the evening of 8 September 2026, aged 89. He led Orient Overseas (International) Limited to a Hong Kong listing in April 1973, and when his father retired in 1980 he took full charge, expanding the family's dry-cargo fleet into container shipping; at its peak the group operated more than 150 vessels with over ten million tons of capacity.
