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Zhou Bo, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, hints that Beijing wants Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal to seek an interpretation of the Basic Law. Zhou told Guangzhou-based newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily that the 2001 ruling of Hong Kong's highest court on the right of abode for Zhuang Fengyuan, a child born in the city to mainland parents, was inconsistent with the spirit of the Basic Law. Zhou also said the "zero-quota" policy for pregnant mainlanders to give birth in the city's private hospitals was only an administrative measure and that the problem needed to be resolved via legal channels sooner rather than later.
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