Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration (Chinese: 政務司司長), commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Secretary for Administration 香港特別行政區政務司司長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Eric Chan since 1 July 2022
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Government Secretariat Executive Council
Reports to	Legislative Council
Residence	Victoria House, 15 Barker Road, The Peak
Appointer	State Council of the People's Republic of China nomination by Chief Executive
Term length	No longer than the Chief Executive's remaining term (No constitutional or statutory limits, but no CS would receive employment contract longer than the CE's remaining term since POAS was in place in 2002.)
Inaugural holder	Anson Chan
Formation	1 July 1997
Salary	HK$4.5 million p.a.[1]
Website	CSO

Chief Secretary for Administration
Traditional Chinese	政務司司長
Simplified Chinese	政务司司长
Cantonese Yale	Jingmouhsī Sījéung
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhèngwùsī Sīzhǎng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jingmouhsī Sījéung IPA [tsēːŋ.mòu.síː síː.tsœ̌ːŋ] Jyutping Zing3mou6si1 Si1zoeng2

The Chief Secretary is head of the Government Secretariat which is in charge of the administration of the Region to which all other ministers belong, and is responsible for his or her policies and actions to the Chief Executive and to the Legislative Council.

Under Article 53 of the Basic Law, the position is known as "Administrative Secretary".