Editing Tung Chee-hwa (section)

==Family and early life==
Tung was born in [[Xuhui, Shanghai|Xuhui District]], [[Shanghai]] on 7 July 1937,<ref>Chinese calendar 29 May 1937 as disclosed in directorship filings at UK Companies Registry</ref> 29th day of the fifth lunar month in 1937 in the [[Chinese calendar]] into an influential shipping magnate family of [[Tung Chao Yung]]. Tung Chao Yung was the founder of the [[Orient Overseas Container Line]], a shipping company which was closely associated with the [[government of the Republic of China]]. His younger brother, [[Tung Chee-chen]], was ranked as the 23rd wealthiest man in Hong Kong in 2009, worth US$900 million.<ref>[[Forbes]] Hong Kong's 40 Richest (April 2009): [https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/82/business-hongkong09_Chee-Chen-(CC)-Tung_LP4N.html #23 Chee Chen (C.C.) Tung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919121359/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/82/business-hongkong09_Chee-Chen-(CC)-Tung_LP4N.html |date=19 September 2018 }}</ref> In January 2008, Tung and his family were ranked (also by Forbes) as the 16th wealthiest in Hong Kong, with a total value of US$3 billion.<ref>[[Forbes]] Hong Kong's 40 Richest (Jan 2008): [https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/82/biz_08hkrichest_Chee-Chen-Tung-family_LP4N.html #16 Chee Chen Tung & family] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412212817/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/82/biz_08hkrichest_Chee-Chen-Tung-family_LP4N.html |date=12 April 2018 }}</ref>

In 1949 during the [[Chinese Communist Revolution]], when Tung was 12 years old, Tung's father moved the family to Hong Kong. His father remained close to [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s [[Kuomintang]] government on [[Taiwan]], in which the logo OCCL has been [[plum blossom]], the [[National Flower of the Republic of China|national flower of the Republic of China]]. In the 1950s, Tung attended the [[Chung Wah Middle School]], a leftist school later shut down by the Hong Kong colonial government in the light of the [[1967 Hong Kong riots]].<ref name="undergroundfront">{{cite book|last1=Loh|first1=Christine|title=Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong|date=2010|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|location=Hong Kong|isbn=9789888028948|page=113}}</ref> He was sent abroad to study at [[Liverpool University]], leaving him with a lifelong passion for the [[Liverpool Football Club]]. He graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Science degree in marine engineering in 1960.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00leun|url-access=limited|first1=Edwin Pak-Wah|last1=Leung|pages=[https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00leun/page/n52 36]–7|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2002|isbn=9780313302169}}</ref> From Liverpool he was sent to the United States to work as an engineer at [[General Electric]] in [[Massachusetts]], and then for the family business in [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tung Chee Hwa {{!}} InterAction Council|url=https://www.interactioncouncil.org/about-us/members/members/tung-chee-hwa|access-date=2021-02-11|website=www.interactioncouncil.org|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929111713/https://www.interactioncouncil.org/about-us/members/members/tung-chee-hwa|url-status=live}}</ref> He also lived in [[San Francisco]] before he returned to Hong Kong in 1969.<ref name="independent">{{cite news|title=Profile: Tung Chee-hwa; China's secret weapon|work=Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-tung-chee-hwa-chinas-secret-weapon-1354010.html|access-date=17 September 2017|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122012736/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-tung-chee-hwa-chinas-secret-weapon-1354010.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

All of Tung's children hold American citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-07-04|title=Hong Kong's ruling elite fight to extinguish freedom whilst clutching foreign passports, money and property abroad|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/04/hong-kongs-ruling-elite-fight-to-extinguish-freedom-whilst-clutching-foreign-passports-money-and-property-abroad/|access-date=2020-08-31|website=[[Hong Kong Free Press]]|language=en-GB|archive-date=3 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903090754/https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/04/hong-kongs-ruling-elite-fight-to-extinguish-freedom-whilst-clutching-foreign-passports-money-and-property-abroad/|url-status=live}}</ref>