After the Chinese Communist Party took full control of Hong Kong by using the Hong Kong State Security Law, it is rumored that there will be a major reshuffle of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government. Hong Kong media 28 news said, the Liaison Office of the internal “tsunami” of large-scale staff rotation, about 480 people in the Liaison Office of the establishment, half of the positions will have personnel changes, the future Liaison Office will have stricter discipline requirements, and even out to see people have to write reports.
According to Hong Kong 01, news of personnel changes in the Liaison Office has been spreading in Hong Kong’s political circles in recent months, including the departure of Li Haitang, former head of the propaganda, Culture and sports department. Zheng Lin, a deputy minister who was “parachuted in” from the Political and Legal Affairs Commission last November, will be “seated”.
The report said that the current staffing establishment of the Liaison Office is about 480 people, the staff change, involving about 240 positions, a rare scale.
The source said that this is a staff change, not “firing”, but the hope that a new approach to deal with Hong Kong issues. Many of the candidates to take over are not intertwined with Hong Kong, but also younger, from the “four corners of the world”, the purpose is to a new perspective and approach, to explore and solve the intricacies of Hong Kong’s various political and economic and livelihood issues.
The source said that this shift not only involves the grassroots, but also touches the management.
The sources said that the director of the Liaison Office, Mr. Luo Huining, has six deputy directors and one secretary-general under his supervision, and a number of agencies, including 21 “departments” under his supervision, whose ministers are second only to the deputy director or secretary-general of the Liaison Office.
The transfer of the Liaison Office also involves the decision-making level. The source said that there will be stricter work requirements and discipline, “even to meet people outside also have to write a report”, the work is not only involved in the political level, but also involved in the economy of Hong Kong, livelihood work.
The source said the personnel changes or the Central Government’s approach to Hong Kong into a new “reform phase”, although many new people have not worked in Hong Kong, and do not understand Cantonese, but it does not hinder the work of the Liaison Office, they will cooperate with the new situation in Hong Kong.
The news of a major shift in the Liaison Office came a day before Xi Jinping listened to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s report via video on the afternoon of the 27th.
Analysis suggests that Xi may take full control of the situation in Hong Kong through this major shift in the Liaison Office, which will turn Hong Kong into a city like Shenzhen, and the Hong Kong Chief Executive will be similar to the mayor of Shenzhen.
A panoramic view of the Hong Kong skyline.
Hong Kong has always been an outpost of the power struggle in Zhongnanhai, and Hong Kong and Macau affairs have always been controlled by Jiang’s No. 2 figure Zeng Qinghong and Jiang’s former Standing Committee member Zhang Dejiang.
Han is a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Bureau who openly supports Lin Zheng’s amendment of the “Send China Evil Law”. In 2019, when anti-Send China protests broke out in Hong Kong, Han sat in Shenzhen for the second Time before the beginning of July to observe the situation in Hong Kong from a close distance. Each time Han Zheng went south, the conflict in Hong Kong showed an intensified state.
A second generation of Reds in Hong Kong had revealed that Xi Jinping did not trust the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and the Liaison Office. The former director of the Liaison Office, Wang Zhimin, has the political backing of Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong and the former director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Liao Hui, and this part of the political forces is secretly working against Xi Jinping.
After Zhang Xiaoming and Wang Zhimin were transferred, there were personnel changes in the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office and the Liaison Office of the Communist Party of China. Some analysts believe that Xi Jinping wants to take the opportunity to extend his hand into Hong Kong, dilute Jiang’s turf, and increase his control.
Veteran political commentator Lin Baohua has told the Taiwanese media that Hong Kong is in the heart of the Chinese Communist Party’s power struggle, with each faction hoping the other will make a mistake and reap the benefits, but no matter which faction wins, it is Hong Kong that will pay the price.
In June 2019, Hong Kong broke out the anti-sending China protest movement, Beijing instructed the Hong Kong government and Hong Kong police, bloody suppression of Hong Kong people; in late June 2020, the Chinese Communist Party again pushed Hong Kong state security law to further suppress Hong Kong democrats.
In May of the same year, a group of pro-Beijing financial circles formed a new political party called the “Bauhinia Party”. The party is expected to recruit 250,000 members.
The Hong Kong media believes that the Bauhinia Party is probably an overt manifestation of Hong Kong’s underground Communist Party.
According to Hong Kong veteran journalist Ching Cheong, the number of underground Communist Party members in Hong Kong may be as many as 400,000. He said the emergence of the Bauhinia Party indicates that the Chinese Communist Party does not trust the Hong Kong government and is likely to be brewing a purge of Hong Kong’s leftists, represented by Hong Kong Chief Executive Lam Cheng.
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