Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Donald Tsang gestures as he delivers a speech at a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday. Donald Tsang unveiled the lineup of the third-term HKSAR government principal officials in the press conference yesterday shortly after the Central People's Government of China approved the Chief Executive's nominations for the appointments of those principal officials of HKSAR government. -Xinhua

China's State Council, the cabinet, yesterday appointed 20 principal officials of the third government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) nominated by Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang.

Among them, Henry Tang Ying-yen has been appointed Chief Secretary for Administration and John Tsang Chun-wah has been appointed Financial Secretary.

These officials will begin to carry out their duties on July 1,2007.

Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was formally reappointed Hong Kong chief executive in April this year, and his new five-year term will start on July 1, 2007.

The Hong Kong SAR Government was officially founded on July 1, 1997.