Attend more meetings and cut out the lavish dinners, Hong Kong’s CPPCC delegates told
Liaison office orders CPPCC members to avoid the high life and attend meetings in light of their poor performance at Guangdong briefings
Hong Kong delegates to the nation's top advisory body have been told by a mainland official not to skip meetings and to avoid long, lavish dinners during the annual congress in Beijing.
Yin Xiaojing, deputy director of the central government's liaison office in Hong Kong, gave the city's delegates a tongue-lashing during a closed-door panel discussion in Beijing yesterday morning.
Yin, herself a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, reminded Hong Kong delegates that they should attend meetings, keep a low profile and be frugal in their spending while in the capital, according to some delegates who attended the discussion.
"We were told not to go out and have lavish dinners. If we really need to, we should do it individually or in small groups," said James Tien Pei-chun, a CPPCC delegate and the Liberal Party leader.
We were told not to go out and have lavish dinners
"We were told not to show off our CPPCC delegate credentials or move around in a high-profile manner, because delegates from other provinces and municipalities have been restrained from doing so."