Grand Bauhinia Medal
The Grand Bauhinia Medal () is the highest award under the Hong Kong honours and awards system; it is to recognise the selected person's lifelong and highly significant contribution to the well-being of Hong Kong. The awardee is entitled to the postnominal letters GBM and the style The Honourable. The award was created in 1997 to replace the British honours system, following the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The list was empty because no one was awarded from 2003 to 2004. Bauhinia, Bauhinia blakeana, is the floral emblem of Hong Kong. List of recipients 1997 Ann Tse-kai Lee Quo-wei Simon Li Elsie Tu Cha Chi Ming Tsui Sze-man Chuang Shih-ping Wong Ker-lee Tsang Hin-chi Henry Fok Chung Sze-yuen Lo Tak-shing 1998 Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales Ng Hong-mun Run Run Shaw Wong Po-yan 1999 Lee Chark-tim Anson Chan Yang Ti-liang Sidney Gordon William Purves 2000 Henry Litton Charles Ching Mo Kwan-nin Jin Yong Jao Tsung-I 2001 Harry Fang Li Ka-shing Yeung Kwong 2002 Donald Tsang Elsie Leung David Akers-Jones Chang-Lin Tien 2005 Lau Wong-fat Chiang Chen 2006 Charles Lee Leo Lee Tung-hai Tung Chee Hwa 2007 Rita