The State Council announced the appointment of Yin Zonghua, formerly the deputy director of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese, as deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government. Yin, 56, a native of Zhejiang province and a doctor of economics from Nankai University, worked mainly in the Ministry of Commerce, where he was in charge of foreign trade, serving as Minister-Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the European Union Mission, Director General of the Department of International Economic and Trade Relations at the Ministry of Commerce, Director General of the Department of World Trade Organization, and Vice Chairman of the CCPIT.
In 2015, during his tenure as Vice President of CCPIT, Mr. Wan came to Hong Kong to attend the opening ceremony of the Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center with the then Secretary for Justice, Mr. Rimsky Yuen, and the Deputy Director of the Basic Law Committee, Ms. Elsie Leung.
In 2019, Wan was reassigned as deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), i.e. a deputy ministerial-level cadre who has contact with CPPCC members in Hong Kong and Macau.
The current director of the Liaison Office is Luo Huining, and there are six other deputy directors, including Chen Dong, Yang Jianping, Qiu Hong, Lu Xinning, Tan Tieniu and He Jing. Among them, Qiu Hong has reached the retirement age of 60 years old at the deputy ministerial level this month, and comes from the same Ministry of Commerce as Yin Zonghua, who is believed to have the opportunity to replace Qiu Hong and take charge of economic work.
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