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Written by: Zhou Lixi
2021-03-17 18:25
Last update date: 2021-03-17 18:26
Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, and Zhang Yong, deputy director of the Legal Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, and other Beijing officials have been in Hong Kong for three consecutive days to listen to opinions on revising the local election system.
When Zhang Yong met with people in the legal profession this morning (17th), he quoted former Basic Law Drafting Committee Chairman Ji Pengfei as saying that the Basic Law should enable the executive, legislative, and judicial organs to check and balance each other and cooperate with each other. The Chief Executive must have real power, that is, administration. The dominant system.
Zhang Yong emphasized that this time the central government used the "Decision" to amend Annexes 1 and 2 of the Basic Law to amend the law. The central government "has to take action and cannot fail to take action." Once it takes action, it must fundamentally solve the problem and return to the "Basic Law." The original intention of the Basic Law.
▼Luo Huining, director of the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhang Yong, deputy director of the Legal Work Committee of the National People's Congress, discussed ▼
Administrative legislation requires "rational checks and balances"
Zhang Yong said that nearly 25 years after the reunification, there have been some problems and unsatisfactory areas. If the SAR can be perfected and solved best, the situation has intensified in recent years, not only damaging the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, but also directly challenging the bottom line of the "one country, two systems" principle, threatening, Endangering national sovereignty, security, and development interests will continue to drift away from the original intention of the Basic Law.
Zhang Yong pointed out that the central government’s goal of reforming Hong Kong’s electoral system this time is not only to implement patriots ruling Hong Kong, but also to improve the governance efficiency of the SAR. There must be rational checks and balances and effective coordination between the executive and the legislature. There should be no more inferior parliamentary culture. There must be, but there must be rational checks and balances, and there must be no inferior parliamentary culture or chaos. Effective cooperation, rational checks and balances, and effective cooperation are the relationship between the executive and the legislature. The chief executive must truly have real power and be able to govern smoothly."
At the meeting, Zhang Yong said that he had listened to a lot of opinions recently, and he also visited several highly respected seniors in private. He believed that the collected opinions provided a lot of good ideas for the National People's Congress Standing Committee to amend Annexes 1 and 2 of the Basic Law.
▼Zhang Xiaoming, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office ▼
Xinhua News Agency: Participants agreed that it is necessary to reform the system
Xinhua News Agency issued a manuscript this afternoon, mentioning that in the past 3 days, relevant central authorities have held more than 60 seminars in Hong Kong, and conducted visits and interviews to listen to opinions from people from all walks of life.
The participants unanimously agreed with and supported the relevant decisions of the National People’s Congress. They believed that improving Hong Kong’s electoral system at the national level and eliminating related hidden dangers and risks is an inevitable requirement for the full implementation of the principle of "patriots ruling Hong Kong" and ensuring political stability and regime security in Hong Kong. Necessary.
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