Chinese President Hu Jintao met in Beijing Friday afternoon with Donald Tsang who had just taken oath of office as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
   
President Hu extended his congratulations on Tsang's assumption of the office as the Chief Executive of the HKSAR.
   
Hu said Donald Tsang was smoothly elected the new Chief Executive of the HKSAR by winning the nomination by 714 members of the Election Committee in the by-election of the HKSAR Chief Executive and was officially appointed the new HKSAR Chief Executive by the central government. "All this demonstrates the acknowledgment and support to Donald Tsang from all strata of Hong Kong society, as well as the central government's high trust and expectation for him."
   
Hu expressed the hope that Donald Tsang could live up to great expectations, consistently abide by his duty and work hard and diligently, so as to make new contributions for Hong Kong's prosperity, stability and development.
   
Tsang said he was excited and felt greatly honored to be appointed as the new Chief Executive of the HKSAR by the central government.
   
He said it was his long aspiration to do something for the motherland and Hong Kong and he is all the more convinced that the cause of "One Country, Two Systems" is a great success.
   
In next two years, Tsang said that he will try his best to perform his duty well and make Hong Kong still more harmonious, prosperous and full of vim and vigor.

(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2005)