The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is advancing towards Hong Kong, and one country, two systems is drifting apart.
Some scholars speculate that the three directors are members of Beijing’s leadership or middle generation cadres, indicating that Beijing wants to take full control of Hong Kong’s culture, media, and publishing and propaganda.
According to a document filed by Bauhinia Hong Kong with the Registrar of Companies on April 20, Fu Weizhong and Li Jiping, the top executives of United Publishing Group, left the company on that day and were replaced by three mainland directors, Sun Guangqi, Gong Rui and Wang Kai, according to Ming Pao on April 10.
Ming Pao compared the mainland resident ID numbers provided by Sun Guangqi to the company registry and found that he matched the information of Sun Guangqi, director of the Department of Economic Construction of the Ministry of Finance, who also participated in the regular policy briefing of the State Council of the Communist Party of China as director of the Department of Economic Construction of the Ministry of Finance in November last year, and the official website of the Department of Economic Construction of the Ministry of Finance has deleted the name and title of the director on the leadership profile page.
According to the information, before Sun Guangqi became the director of the Department of Economic Construction, he also served for several years as the deputy director of the Department of UNESCO (now merged into the Department of Science, Education and Culture), both of which are departments under the Ministry of Finance and are responsible for the management of related central enterprises.
In addition, Ming Pao also traced the addresses provided by Sun Guangqi, Gong Rui and Wang Kai to the company registry and found that Gong Rui’s address was the same as the Ministry of Finance’s address and place of incorporation. Ming Pao also searched through the mainland online map and found that the addresses reported by Sun Guangqi and Wang Kai were also located near the kindergarten of the Ministry of Finance and the community of the Beijing Academy of Military Sciences, respectively.
Hong Kong current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao also said that all three people have the characteristics of political cadres, and Beijing chose the three people to thoroughly implement the instructions of their superiors.
According to the report, Bauhinia Hong Kong was registered in Hong Kong in 2019, formerly known as Bauhinia Culture (Holdings) Limited, which oversees four major Chinese-owned publishers in Hong Kong, including United Publishing Group, Bauhinia Magazine, Yindu Institution and China Culture City. Among them, United Publishing Group also includes a number of well-known publishers such as Sanlian Bookstore, Chung Hwa Book Co. and Commercial Press, which publishes about one-fifth of the annual Chinese book publishing volume in Hong Kong.
According to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s public information on Phoenix, Bauhinia Hong Kong is 100% owned by Bauhinia Culture Group Limited (Bauhinia Culture), whose registered address is in Qianhai, Shenzhen, and Bauhinia Culture is 100% owned by the Ministry of Finance of the Communist Party of China.
In other words, the Hong Kong-registered Bauhinia Hong Kong is indirectly and fully controlled by the Ministry of Finance of the Communist Party of China.
In addition, according to an April 19 report in the Sing Tao Daily, Bauhinia Culture Group Chairman Mao Chaofeng was also the mayor of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, and secretary of the Zhoukou Municipal Party Committee before being promoted to the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee at the end of 2011, becoming a vice-ministerial-level official and elected as an alternate member of the 18th CPC Central Committee. He is involved in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port and has experience in politics and law.
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