Matthew Cheung

Matthew Cheung commands my respect as a career civil servant of the unglamorous, essential kind. Born in 1950 in British Hong Kong and educated at the University of Hong Kong, he spent a decade as Secretary for Labour and Welfare before rising to Chief Secretary for Administration, earning the Grand Bauhinia Medal along the way. Labour and welfare is thankless terrain, far from the spotlight yet woven directly into ordinary lives. To have shouldered that brief through Hong Kong's turbulent decades takes a particular durability. I tend to admire the steady administrators who keep a city functioning more than the louder political stars.

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Name (English)

Matthew Cheung

Name (Japanese)

張建宗

Reading

ましゅー・ちゃん

Born

November 20, 1950 (age 75)

Origin

British Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Occupation

justice of the peace / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

University

University of Hong Kong

Awards & achievements

• Gold Bauhinia Star

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Cheung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%BB%BA%E5%AE%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6790301

Tags

• justice of the peace
• politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.