Briefing lined up for senior Hong Kong officials on Xi Jinping’s Communist Party congress report
Beijing delegation invited to Hong Kong to give talk on president’s ideas
The Hong Kong government has invited a mainland delegation to brief its senior officials on President Xi Jinping’s report to the Communist Party congress last month, the city’s leader confirmed on Tuesday.
The delegation, tasked by Beijing with promoting the messages of China’s ruling party after its twice-a-decade congress, is set to explain Xi’s report to Hong Kong’s top decision makers this week, according to local media reports.
The mainland group will be led by Leng Rong, head of the party’s literature research office and a member of its Central Committee, the largest of the party’s elite ruling bodies.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday confirmed that Leng would be coming to give a talk this week – a move local lawmakers said was unusual.
But Lam said the event was not without precedent: “In the last few years, the government has organised a lot of similar talks on topics such as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, the Chinese premier’s work reports, and technological advancements,” she said.