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Beijing’s new national security office for Hong Kong to be located at Metropark Hotel in Causeway Bay, sources say

  • Zheng Yanxiong, the new office’s chief, was already working from the hotel, sources told the Post, with a formal opening expected Wednesday
  • The building, now being retrofitted to its new purpose, will serve as the bureau’s headquarters for ‘the next few years’, according to sources

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The Metropark Hotel in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood has been chosen as the home of the new Office for Safeguarding National Security. Photo: Sam Tsang
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Beijing’s national security office in Hong Kong is turning a Causeway Bay hotel into its local base, the Post has learned, and will officially begin operations on Wednesday.

A source on Tuesday said the Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay, located opposite Victoria Park, home of the annual Tiananmen Square candlelight vigil, had been taken over by the Office for Safeguarding National Security.
Zheng Yanxiong, appointed as the office’s chief on Friday, had already arrived in Hong Kong and begun work in the building on Tuesday, the source added, with other employees expected to both work and live there.
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Workers outside the Metropark Causeway Bay hotel on Tuesday retrofit it for its new role as the home of Beijing’s national security office for Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang
Workers outside the Metropark Causeway Bay hotel on Tuesday retrofit it for its new role as the home of Beijing’s national security office for Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang

“The hotel will be the headquarters of our National Security Office in Hong Kong for the next few years,” another source added. “The hotel was owned by China Travel Service, so it is safer and easier to coordinate the national security office’s moving in and security.

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“Currently, we are finishing up cleaning, refitting and renovating the building to ensure it serves the purpose. Director Zheng arrived in Hong Kong over the weekend after his appointment. The team will be operating from this new headquarters very soon.

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