National Security Act〡This year, the three major Hong Kong-related appointments of Zheng Yanxiong, Luo Huining and Xia Baolong have one thing in common

Political situation

Written by: Zheng Baosheng

2020-07-03 20:31

The revision of the fugitive offenders regulations last year triggered a wave of anti-amendment laws, which also caused the central government to change its personnel and policies regarding Hong Kong affairs. The director of the Central Liaison Office replaced Wang Zhimin with Luo Huining, the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office changed from Zhang Xiaoming to Xia Baolong, and today’s latest appointment in Hong Kong is the important configuration of the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” and the newly established central station maintenance in Hong Kong Zheng Yanxiong, director of the National Security Agency.

The three common points of appointment are that local officials take up important positions in Hong Kong: the Hong Kong and Macao Office and the Central Liaison Office will no longer be promoted from the Hong Kong and Macao Office system, or select personnel with foreign experience to break the traditional practices of the past decades. The person in charge of the Office of the People’s Public Affairs Department was not hit by the midpoint of the public security system, causing the outside world to fall apart. The three appointments have one feature in common-having the experience of handling mass conflicts or social public crises has become the main condition for Beijing to pick people.

Luo Huining and Xia Baolong are local officials

Recalling the first two personnel changes, Wang Zhimin, the former director of the Liaison Office of the People’s Republic of China, has worked in the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency, the Liaison Office of the People’s Republic of China, and the Hong Kong and Macao Office. Job title. However, the current director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office, Luo Huining, did not work in the Hong Kong and Macao system before taking office. Instead, he served as Secretary-General of the Provincial Government, Secretary of the Chaohu Prefectural Committee, Minister of the Propaganda Department, and Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee in Anhui, and then transferred to Qinghai and Shanxi Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

The current director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office, Xia Baolong, has no background in the Hong Kong and Macao system. He has served as deputy mayor of Tianjin, secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and governor.

When Luo Huining served as Secretary of the Chaohu District Committee, he had dealt with the flood in 1998. (Profile picture)

Zheng Yanxiong, former mayor of Shanwei City, was described as tough in style

Coincidentally, Zheng Yanxiong, who served as director of the National Security Agency, was also a local official. Zheng Yanxiong served as Secretary of the Shanwei Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Shanwei City. He also served as the Executive Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. In the eyes of the outside world, Zheng Yanxiong's methods are tough. At that time, the "iron fist" policy was used to deal with the incident in Wuwei Village, Shanwei. Xia Baolong was in charge of Zhejiang. The most famous "rule of achievement" was the forcible demolition of church crosses. It can be seen that Beijing's deployment of Hong Kong-related personnel appointments has not been too concerned about and scoring the issue of whether it is easy for people to "accept".

The three major appointments this year have in common that all three are local, and have dealt with major incidents. It is expected to be the "iron triangle" in response to social events in Hong Kong.

Luo and Xia both have experience in coping with local events

When Luo Huining took the post of Secretary of the Chaohu District Committee, he had responded to the 1998 flood and had experience in responding to emergency situations. He was later transferred to Shanxi to deal with the reorganization work after the official quake in Shanxi Province, and has experience in rectifying the government affairs system.

When Xia Baolong served as the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, since 2014, the church cross has been demolished in the province. During this period, believers and the government clashed. Many believers were detained in the church for criminal detention. This shows that Xia Baolong has a response to the society. Conflicting experience.

During Xia Baolong's administration in Zhejiang, he dealt with the demolition of the church cross. (Profile picture)

Wukan Village incident occurred during Zheng Yanxiong's administration

As for Zheng Yanxiong, during his tenure as secretary of the municipal party committee in Shanwei City, the Wukan Village incident occurred in September 2011. At that time, the villagers of Wukan Village claimed that the transfer of agricultural land without their knowledge involved more than 700 million yuan (RMB‧ the same below), and the subsidy amount was only 550 yuan per household. Therefore, collective rights protection required the investigation of land sales and village committee elections. He also selected village representatives to follow up the incident on his own, and the process attracted the attention of foreign media.

In December, Zheng Yanxiong, who was the secretary of the Shanwei Municipal Party Committee, and others told the mainland media about the situation of Wukan Village, saying that "some organizations, forces and media outside the country really have a certain relationship with the Wukan Village incident, and the issue has been heated up. "Unlimited magnification", after the villagers were dissatisfied with the government's handling methods and met again, the police arrested the villagers, and villager Xue Jinbo died during his detention.

Zheng once criticized that "overseas media can trust that sows will grow trees"

On December 19 of that year, Zheng Yanxiong delivered a speech at the meeting between cadres and the masses, criticizing the villagers "I have such a policy of the state, I also feel it. You said that a responsible government like this, you do not expect, you count on foreign countries. A bad media, a bad newspaper, a bad website are all upside down." He also said: "The media outside the country can be trusted and sows will be on the tree."

Zheng Yanxiong's Wukan Village incident occurred while he was the secretary of the municipal party committee in Shanwei City. (Profile picture)

Later, with the intervention of Zhu Mingguo, a member of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, the incident was eased. The summary of the "Zhu Six Points" incident proposed by Zhu Mingguo and the summary published by the media the next day deleted the text that the government had resolved the reasonable appeal but the villagers were still determined to use it for hostile forces inside and outside the country. Only the remaining five points were summarized.

As can be seen from the above incidents, Beijing believes that Zheng Yanxiong has strong experience in responding to social events such as popular protests.

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