Born into a military family in Shaoguan, a poor city inGuangdong province, Ms Zhang came to the then colony in 1985 as an accountant with a Sino-foreign trading joint venture.

• 张茵出生在广东贫困城市韶关的一个军人家庭，于1985年来到当时仍为英殖民地的香港，在一家中外合资贸易公司担任会计。