The new government attaches great importance to media public relations and grasps public opinion and public opinion.
Chief Executive Lee Ka-chiu also stated earlier that he would set up a "Chief Executive Policy Unit" to formulate policies from a national perspective and Hong Kong's interests.
It is understood that it is very difficult to find candidates for these two positions, which are regarded as the core staff of the Chief Executive. One of the reasons is that Li Jiachao hopes to "target results" and has higher requirements for candidates. Among them, the leader of the "Chief Executive Policy Team" is selected. , it is possible that the Policy Address will not be released until around October.
Li Jiachao hopes that the director of the policy team is "grounded"
Looking through the information, after Leung Chun-ying took office as the chief executive in 2012, Shao Shanbo was announced as the chief advisor of the Central Policy Group on July 13, and then full-time advisors were announced one after another. Because it inherited the past Central Policy Group system, it was relatively simple.
In 2017, Carrie Lam announced in her October Policy Address that the Central Policy Unit would be replaced by the Innovation and Coordination Office. Due to the reorganization involved, the Innovation Office would not be formally established until April 1 of the following year. The first director was Lam. Zheng "Love General" Feng Cheng Shuyi.
A person in the government revealed that, in the current political environment, the chief executive of the policy group must be familiar with the national conditions and be trusted by Beijing, but Li Jiachao himself has other requirements. There must be a certain amount of research, in short, "grounding", but in fact, very few people have both the above items at the same time, and at the same time they are trusted by Beijing, so it is very difficult to find the job of supervisor.
The person pointed out that the search work is continuing. In the future, the team will include full-time and part-time consultants, which is similar to the previous arrangement of the Central Strategy Team. However, due to the lack of clear progress on the selection of the leader, Li Jiachao is currently busy with the October "Policy Address". Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the final decision on the candidates will not be ruled out until after the "Policy Address".
Li Jiachao visited Sham Shui Po recently.
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Liu Zhaojia: The work of the policy team is more difficult, and the leaders have higher requirements
Liu Zhaojia, vice president of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, who was the chief adviser of the Central Policy Group, said that it is logically difficult to require a person to be fully acquainted with local people's livelihood, economy, politics, mainland and international affairs. There are only one or two areas of special expertise, but the most important thing is to be broad enough. It must have a historical foundation and strategic acumen, as well as a certain network of contacts to help the government see issues from a macro and overall perspective.”
He pointed out that the group should be staffed with enough experts and scholars, have connections with the mainland and Hong Kong society, and conduct in-depth research, collect domestic and overseas experience and collect research results through different methods, and the most important thing for leaders is to have the ability to coordinate, Know how to integrate the opinions of members of experts from different backgrounds, so that each person can exert their strengths.
However, Liu Zhaojia agrees that the current international situation, especially the Sino-US relationship, is complicated, and Hong Kong is easily implicated between the two. Therefore, the work of the new policy team is more difficult than before, and it is normal that leading figures are difficult to find.
He pointed out that there are not many people in Hong Kong who are familiar with both Mainland and international affairs, and there are few experts with similar backgrounds in the academic circle. In fact, the Chief Executive may wish to consider people from outside Hong Kong, especially the leading experts from the Mainland. The most important thing is to know how to absorb different people. Opinion, "The work of the policy team cannot be perfect and accomplished overnight, and it may also be learned in the process of work."
Liu Zhaojia.
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The news coordinator is hard to find and the two will share the work
On the other hand, Li Jiachao also intends to reset the post of Information Coordinator (IC), which was vacated by the previous government.
It is understood that candidates for this position are also hard to find, especially in today’s era of social networking, where the circulation of information is no longer limited to traditional media, and many important news are first fermented through social platforms, and only after they have received widespread attention, the government is alerted.
Therefore, IC must have many years of work experience, know how to deal with high-level media, and at the same time have a good relationship with frontline reporters, but also understand the network ecology, and must not be out of touch with young people, that is, it must also be "grounded".
A person familiar with the matter pointed out that Li Jiachao has continued to look for IC candidates, but because talents are hard to find, he would rather leave the position in the short term rather than find the wrong person.
Xie Zhenzhong, the "four o'clock sir" who is currently in charge of social network strategy for Li Jiachao, and Huang Zhiyuan, the former deputy news director of Phoenix Satellite TV who took up the post of special assistant to the Chief Executive's Office last month, will temporarily be in charge of the functions of the news coordinator. The former is in charge of the Police Public Relations Division. During this period, I have become accustomed to dealing with the press, which is a journalist and is familiar with the operation of the media.
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