Letters | Shuffle in Beijing officials overseeing Hong Kong will benefit the city – if Hongkongers lend their support

It was interesting to read Tammy Tam’s insightful commentary (“Beijing and Lam must adjust to new chain of command”, February 17) on the appointment of Xia Baolong, vice-chairman of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, as head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO).

His well qualified and experienced predecessor, Zhang Xiaoming, will be his deputy in Beijing managing the daily affairs of the HKMAO. The two other deputies – all three being of ministerial rank – Luo Huining and Fu Ziying will head the Hong Kong and Macau liaison offices respectively.

I am a Hongkonger who believes in Hong Kong’s future under the “one country, two systems” principle and the rule of law. I hope all sections of our community will unite with the chief executive and her administration to play our part, in cooperation with the central government, to bring under control the coronavirus outbreak, which does not seem to have peaked yet. We in Hong Kong should cooperate with the central government and especially with the Greater Bay Area local governments.

I also hope that the new HKMAO leadership line-up will support Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her political team on two key objectives vital to our city’s future and which are in line with the nation’s “new era” development plans for the next two to three decades: first, regaining for Hong Kong its status as a global financial and trading hub, and second, transforming Hong Kong’s fiscal policy so as to reduce inequality and generate more hope in our city’s future among the average middle class and our younger generation.