Former liaison chief in Hong Kong Peng Qinghua to take top job in Sichuan

Former chief of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong to take over from Wang Dongming, who was elected NPC Standing Committee vice-chair on Saturday

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Peng Qinghua became Guangxi party boss in December 2012. Photo: Handout

Published: 9:12pm, 20 Mar 2018Updated: 1:47pm, 21 Mar 2018

Peng Qinghua, the Communist Party boss of Guangxi province, is expected to take over from Sichuan party chief Wang Dongming, a Beijing-based source with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

The transfer was decided as Wang was elected National People’s Congress Standing Committee vice-chairman on Saturday.

“The party head of Jiangxi province, Lu Xinshe, will fill the vacancy left by Peng,” the source said.

“Liu Qi, Lu’s deputy and provincial governor of Jiangxi, will be elevated to be Jiangxi’s party head.”

Peng, 60 and from Hubei province, is best known to Hongkongers for his work at the central government’s liaison office in the city. He was deputy director there from 2003 until he was promoted to director in 2009, holding the position for about three years.

He joined the liaison office in 2003, when public perception of the local and mainland governments had hit rock bottom. Just months before Peng joined, half a million people took to the streets to protest against plans to enact national security laws under Article 23 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution.

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