Politics
Written by: Peng Yiwei
2020-02-13 21:59
Last updated: 2020-02-13 21:59The central authority in charge of Hong Kong and Macao affairs has undergone a major overhaul. The State Council announced today (13th) that Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, concurrently served as director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. It is worth noting that Luo Huining, director of the Hong Kong China Federation of Liaison Offices, and Fu Ziying, director of the Macau China Liaison Office, also served as deputy directors of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office for the first time since the reunification.
Liu Zhaojia, deputy chairman of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, believes that the current transfer reflects the major adjustments in the working system of Hong Kong and Macao and the upgrade of the Hong Kong and Macao Office in the central system. Storm and accountability.
The State Council announced today (13) that Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, also serves as director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. (China News Agency)
Liu Zhaojia pointed out that after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China, the Central Government stated that it would be more proactive to intervene in Hong Kong's affairs and adopt a hard line approach to Hong Kong to prevent Hong Kong from becoming an anti-China base for external forces. He said that in recent months, the Central Government hopes to strengthen the governance of the SAR and govern Hong Kong by patriots and patriots. This time, the entire Hong Kong and Macau work system will be integrated. He believes that it is to arrange people with more political status and energy to take charge of the Hong Kong and Macau Office, especially when Luo Huining takes over After the director of the joint office, "Zhang Xiaoming may not be able to control him", so he arranged for Xia Baolong to take charge of the Hong Kong and Macau Office.
Liu Zhaojia disagreed with Zhang Xiaoming's demotion of the deputy director as "stewed winter mushrooms". Zhang Xiaoming will still serve in the Hong Kong and Macau Office in the future. "If the mushrooms are stewed, they should be transferred from the Hong Kong and Macao system." Instead, he emphasized that Zhang Xiaoming is still a ministerial official, plus two other ministerial officials, namely Hong Kong and Macau. The directors of the joint office also serve as deputies of Xia Baolong, reflecting the increasing status of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office in the central government, and Hong Kong affairs have become more and more important in the central government's eyes. "It may not be just an internal problem in Hong Kong, but a matter involving national security."
This official transfer is also the first time since the reunification that the director of the Joint Office of the People's Republic of China and the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office, Liu Zhaojia believes that this reflects the central government's desire to integrate the Hong Kong and Macao system and implement the central government's Hong Kong policy in a unified manner.
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