China’s ‘two sessions’ 2023: top Beijing official for Hong Kong affairs urges local delegates to play ‘more proactive role’ in advancing city’s prosperity, stability
- Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office director Xia Baolong also tells Hong Kong delegates to promote implementation of ‘one country, two systems’ principle
- Source says billionaire Pansy Ho, former minister Ko Wing-man and veteran politician are to join the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference as part of the body’s standing committee
A key Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has urged local delegates to play a “more proactive role” in advancing the city’s prosperity and stability, as they arrived in the capital for the annual meetings of the country’s legislature and political advisory body.
The Post also learned that billionaire Pansy Ho Chiu-king, former minister Ko Wing-man and veteran politician Martin Liao Cheung-kong would join the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), as part of the top national advisory body’s standing committee.
Meanwhile, CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings chairman Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, eldest son of billionaire Li Ka-shing, is expected to exit from the body’s standing committee, but stay on as a delegate.
More than a hundred Hong Kong members of the CPPCC and the National People’s Congress (NPC) met Xia Baolong, director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), at a closed-door meeting on Friday, a day before the commencement of the “two sessions”.
Xia told the assembled delegates to perform their duties conscientiously and build a consensus, as well as to do better in performing the “dual roles” of offering fresh contributions to the country’s development and the prosperity of Hong Kong and Macau, according to a statement from the HKMAO.
