Hong Kong's Principal Officials Accountability System

Since HongKong regressed, the environment of economy and politics is different. The development of democracy and economy need an accountable government. More and more supervision and consensus come to government, more and more people appeal to the main officials to take responsibility for their policies. The Principal Officials Accountability System of HongKong emerges, as the times require.The Principal Officials Accountability System of HongKong stipulates that the Chief Executive is the principal part who appoints the main officials, and the main officials is the one who must take part in Executive Council and frame the policy and accountable to the Chief Executive directly. The main content includes clearing up the right and responsibility of the main officials, explaining the relationship among the main officials and Executive Council and the civil service system, introducing the benefit and demission and absent from duty stuff in detail.This paper appraises the Principal Officials Accountability System of HongKong impersonally, points the advantages and the defects of this system, so that it gives the conclusion that the System of the Principal Officials Accountability is one of the important way to get accountable government.