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Written by: Sha Banshan
2021-01-14 23:37
The last update date: 2021-01-14 23:43
Lam Cheng's cabinet will again have political assistance to leave the nest. It is reported that the government will announce the resignation of Li Yingyu, political assistant to the Home Affairs Bureau as soon as tomorrow (15th).
There is speculation that Li Yingyu resigned because of holding BNO. People familiar with the matter clarified that it was all rumored that Li did not hold a BNO passport.
According to sources, Li Yingyu’s Singaporean husband intends to return to Sin Chew, and Li will live in Singapore together to take care of her husband and young children.
At the end of this month, the United Kingdom will begin accepting applications from Hong Kong citizens with BNO passports to immigrate to the United Kingdom by means of "5+1". Recently, the media quoted news that the central government will impose countermeasures against the British BNO decentralization policy, including prohibiting BNO holders from staying in Hong Kong. Hold public office and vote.
After the news of Li Yingyu's resignation was exposed tonight, there was speculation on the Internet that she was for BNO reasons.
However, people familiar with the matter told "Hong Kong 01" that the speculation is not factual and that Li Yingyu does not hold BNO.
People familiar with the matter said that Li Yingyu's husband was born and raised in Singapore. After marrying Li, he moved to Hong Kong for 18 years and now plans to return to Singapore.
To take care of her husband and son, Lai chose to resign and move to Singapore to live together.
Husband, Singaporean, updated the declaration form last November to own a house
According to the government declaration form that Li Yingyu updated on November 27 last year, Li Yingyu's husband He Wenlong changed his job from a data analyst to an executive director.
Li owns a commercial unit in Guangzhou and a residential unit in Hong Kong's Kowloon City for rental purposes, while her husband owns a residential unit in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan for rental purposes.
When Li filed in July 2019, he did not mention owning a property in Singapore.
Li Yingyu is 44 years old. She served as a political assistant to the Secretary of Labor and Welfare from January 2013 to May 2017. She was transferred to a political assistant to the Home Affairs Bureau four years ago.
Before joining the government, Li Yingyu served as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Qixin Foundation and also served as the Director of Policy Initiatives at the Bauhinia Foundation Research Center.
The salary of political assistants does not have a uniform level, but is set according to individual qualifications and relevant experience. The salary is set at 25% to 35% of the salary of the director.
According to last year’s Legislative Council document, the government set aside 1.46 million yuan as the salary of a political assistant to the Civil Affairs Bureau in 2020-21. However, the accountability team took the initiative to cut the salary by 10% last year and expected its monthly salary to be about 110,000 yuan.
On the 16th of last month, 12 deputy directors and 14 political assistants witnessed by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor at the government headquarters, sworn in support of the Basic Law and allegiance to the SAR. At the time, Li Yingyu, who was wearing a wine-red dress, also took the oath.
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This is Lam Cheng's second political aid from the nest since he took office in July 2017.
The Lam Cheng government's "Great Earthquake" in April last year included the removal of the then Director of the Financial Affairs and Treasury Bureau, Liu Yixiang, and the then political assistant Yang Baolian, who announced her departure five days after the new Director Xu Zhengyu took office.
Yang had resigned on the social platform when he "blew himself up", referring to leaving at an appropriate time and wishing all the best.
Before Lam Cheng officially took office, Chen Yuepeng, deputy director of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, resigned from then Chief Executive Liang Zhenying in May 2017 and went to Harvard University for further studies.
Political Assistant, Home Affairs Bureau
