[Xia Baolong Palm Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office] The third career peak of the political career has been in this job before being transferred to the official ...

Politics

Written by: Ban Shan

2020-02-15 07:00

Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also serves as the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, becoming the second deputy national official in charge of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office after Liao Hui, the first director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office returned to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's political circle does not know much about Xia Baolong. Looking back on his decades of official career, the Communist Youth League is the starting point. Zhejiang Province has become the main springboard for the upper ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. After 2017, the career advancement and retreat were three times unexpected. Is one of them, the other two are ...

In 2006, Xi Jinping (first from left), secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, and Xia Baolong (second from left), deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, attended the Zhejiang Journalist Forum. (People's Network)

Like Luo Huining, who was born in the same age (currently the director of the China United Nations Office and concurrently the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Office), Xia Baolong joined the society at the age of 17; Luo's first job was a steel mill worker, and Xia Ze taught the whip.

For three full years from 1969 to 1972, Xia Baolong was a teacher. He successively worked as a teacher in the middle school affiliated to Hebei University and Jiefang South Road Primary School in Hexi District, Tianjin. He also went to Tianjin Teachers College for further studies. Fate.

In October 1972, 20-year-old Xia Baolong joined the Communist Youth League, known as the "Cradle of Cadres of the Communist Party of China". Since then, he has taken a completely different path. Alternate members of the CPC Central Committee. Xia Baolong was 45 years old.

2003 was the biggest turning point in Xia Baolong's career as an official. In that year, he was transferred from Tianjin to Deputy Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, and became the first deputy of the then Provincial Party Secretary Xi Jinping, working together for 4 years. In 2012 Xi ruled the country, and Xia also ruled Zhejiang, and he has since been among the officials of Fengjiang.

Former candidate for Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary

In 2017, Xia Baolong reached the 65-year-old ministerial retirement age red line, and his career changed, which was unexpected three times before and after.

At that time, the outside world speculated that, as Xi ’s old ministry, and soon to step down as the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, he had a good chance to go to the next floor, replacing Guo Jinlong, who was about to retire, as the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee, and became a member of the Political Bureau. Became one of the 25 members of the CCP's highest power. However, the speculation finally fell through. The State Council announced that Xia Baolong was transferred to the Deputy Chairman of the Environment and Resource Protection Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Local officials were transferred from the front-line positions to the People's Congress, which means that they have retired from the second-line.

The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office updated its official website to show the new leadership structure. Xia Baolong also served as director and party secretary.

Lost opportunity to be promoted to Beijing the following year

However, just when everyone thought that Xia Baolong's political career was about to end, he was “revived” in less than a summer, and he was “elected” to the National Committee of the Chinese People ’s Political Consultative Conference in 2018. He also served as the secretary-general of the CPPCC and became the "big steward" of the CPPCC. This change is surprising again.

What is unexpected is that Xia Baolong, now 67 years old, was ordered to serve as the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office in jeopardy without warning, playing a "forward" role in centralizing the reorganization of the Hong Kong and Macao work system. Xia, like Luo Huining, is an official from Fengjiang, different from the technical bureaucrats who have long been working in Hong Kong and Macao. The central government has employed officials with extensive local governance experience to govern the Hong Kong and Macau systems, which shows that the central government has raised the level of attention to Hong Kong issues.

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