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Live Broadcasting|Opening Ceremony of the Provisional Base of the National Security Office

2020-07-09T05:29:21.281Z


One week after the "Port National Security Act" came into effect, it was stated that the "Central Security Office in Hong Kong" used Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay as a temporary base. The temporary building of the National Security Office was opened this morning (8th). At 6 o'clock in the morning today, Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue, Financial Secretary Chen Maobo, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Liang Zhenying, and Tan Yaozong, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, successively arrived at the Metropark Hotel. Return to the hotel. The seven-person vehicle with the ZG license plate representing the Xiejun stationed in Hong Kong also arrived in the early morning. The police's key search team personnel conducted additional searches around the hotel. At about 7 am, the flag raising ceremony was held outside the temporary office building of the National Security Office. The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, delivered a speech after the ceremony. The authorities set up a reporter zone outside the site, but they were quite far away from the flagpole at the main entrance of the hotel. During the ceremony, reporters had to "peep" at the reporter zone across the giant water horse.


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Author: Ling Yide

2020-07-08 01:21

Date of last update: 2020-07-08 07:58

One week after the "Port National Security Act" came into effect, it was stated that the "Central Security Office in Hong Kong" used Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay as a temporary base. The temporary building of the National Security Office was opened this morning (8th). At 6 o'clock in the morning today, Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue, Financial Secretary Chen Maobo, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Liang Zhenying, and Tan Yaozong, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, successively arrived at the Metropark Hotel. Return to the hotel. The seven-person vehicle with the ZG license plate representing the Xiejun stationed in Hong Kong also arrived in the early morning. The police's key search team personnel conducted additional searches around the hotel.

At about 7 am, the flag raising ceremony was held outside the temporary office building of the National Security Office. The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, delivered a speech after the ceremony. The authorities set up a reporter zone outside the site, but they were quite far away from the flagpole at the main entrance of the hotel. During the ceremony, reporters had to "peep" at the reporter zone across the giant water horse.

At about 7 am, the flag raising ceremony was held outside the temporary office building of the National Security Office. The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, delivered a speech after the ceremony. (Photo by Huang Weimin)

【0700】The flag raising ceremony was held outside the temporary office building of the National Security Office. Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue performed the ceremony outside the hotel and delivered a speech.

[0655] Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue, Financial Secretary Chen Maobo, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Liang Zhenying, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Tan Yaozong and others arrived at the Metropark Hotel.

"Hong Kong 01" arrived at the Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay at 0:00 am today and found that a large number of staff were preparing outside the hotel. Among them were workers who set up a lifting platform, installed a new metal frame outside the hotel door, and then hung the Chinese National Emblem of the People's Republic. As for the flagpole outside the hotel, the national flag has not been hung. At 10 o'clock in the evening of yesterday (7th), several senior police officers including Director of Police Deng Bingqiang and Deputy Chief of Police Xiao Zeyu successively arrived at Metropark Hotel to inspect the situation;

In addition, the police closed Causeway Bay Road in the direction of Tai Hang at about 0:30 in the morning, including the use of multiple large trucks to connect large water horses on both sides of the footpath. A large number of mobile force personnel were on the spot and police dogs were also deployed. At 11:30 in the middle of the night yesterday (7th), the Transport Department issued a document saying that the following roads were temporarily closed due to road conditions, and urged motorists to consider switching to other roads.

-A section of Causeway Bay Road between Tin Hau Temple Road and Li Yin Li;

-Lixianli;

-East Street of Lotus Palace; and

-Lotus Palace West Street.

The following affected bus routes must be diverted:

Hong Kong Island Route:

2, 5X, 81

Cross sea route:

914

Airport route:

A11, NA11

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The police closed a section of road near the hotel. (Photo by Chen Yongwu)

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The Chief Executive, Lin Zhengyue, delivered a speech. (Photo by Huang Weimin)

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Source: hk1

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