Yin Zonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, becomes deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong.
There is another personnel transfer at the top of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, following the change of the Secretary General of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the head of the Police Liaison Department. Analysis says that the main reason for the Chinese Communist Party‘s frequent change of shifts for officials in the Hong Kong and Macau system is the fear of their assimilation into Hong Kong.
China’s State Council announced Tuesday (16) the appointment of Yin Zonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of the Chinese National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, as deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong.
Currently in charge of Chinese institutions at the Liaison Office is deputy director Qiu Hong, who has been in Hong Kong for seven years and reached the retirement age of 60 at the deputy ministerial level this month. It is rumored that Yin Zonghua is her replacement and will be in charge of Chinese institutions, economic and trade exchanges and other matters after taking up the post.
In addition to Director Luo Huining, the Liaison Office now has six other deputy directors, including Chen Dong, Yang Jianping, Qiu Hong, Lu Xinning, Tan Tieniu and He Jing.
Frequent personnel changes in the Liaison Office
The pro-China media “Hong Kong 01” reported earlier that there is a “tsunami” of large-scale staff rotation within the Liaison Office, and it is even rumored that half of the current staffing establishment of about 480 posts will have personnel changes, not only involving the grassroots positions, but also touching the ministerial management, the scale of which is rare in the past.
Last month, Wang Songmiao, the former director of the General Office of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China, replaced Wen Hongwu and was parachuted in as secretary-general of the Liaison Office, which has been described as a “big butler” in the Western District. Li Haitang has also left, by the Political and Legal Affairs Commission “parachuted” deputy minister Zheng Lin as; Police Liaison Department Minister Li Jiangzhou is the Deputy Director of the Office of the State Security in Hong Kong, by Putian City, Fujian Province, deputy mayor, Public Security Bureau Director Chen Feng to take over the Liaison Department of the Liaison Office of the police department.
Analysis: fear of assimilation by Hong Kong
A legal professional from Zhejiang province, Mr. Li, who did not want to be named, analyzed to this station that from the beginning of 2020, the Chinese Communist Party frequently changed the shifts for the officials of the Hong Kong and Macau system, mainly because they are afraid of being assimilated by Hong Kong.
Mr. Li said: I think the Chinese Communist Party this is in the Hong Kong, that is, the mainland transferred to the past officials in Hong Kong can not be long-term in that to establish relationships or seep too many artificial factors in it. General regiment level or grade in a place where the original team, to a or military, are quickly will be transferred within a few years defense or transfer. Impossible to let you sit in that place, is a norm in the officialdom, right?
Yin Zonghua had worked with Xia Baolong
Information shows that Yin Zonghua, 56, a native of Zhejiang province, has a PhD in economics from Nankai University and has long served in China’s Ministry of Commerce (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation).
In 2019, Yin Zonghua moved to become deputy director of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese, becoming a vice-ministerial-level cadre with extensive contacts with CPPCC members in Hong Kong and Macao, dabbling in the united front work of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and having worked with Xia Baolong, who served as vice chairman and secretary-general of the CPPCC from 2018 to early 2020 and is now director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. Yin is also seen as a member of Xi’s “Family army” because of his work with Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s general secretary.
In addition, Yin was a Minister-Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the European Union, 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 at the Ministry of Commerce and Director of the World Trade Organization Notification and Advisory Bureau of the Chinese Government, and Vice Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. During his tenure at CCPIT, he was also the Chairman of the China International Chamber of Commerce Mediation Center, establishing the “Mainland (China) – Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center” with Hong Kong to provide a platform for the resolution of cross-border commercial disputes between China and Hong Kong.
In 2018, then vice president of CCPIT, he said that China-US economic and trade relations are the most important set of all China’s economic and trade relations with large countries and that the US market should not be given up lightly.
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