Top Beijing official confident ‘masters of Hong Kong’ will be bold on reforms
Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office director Xia Baolong met city leader John Lee and senior officials on Wednesday evening
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, arrived in the city at around 5pm on Wednesday via the Shenzhen Bay border crossing and subsequently met leaders of the local executive, legislative and judicial branches.
“[Lee has focused on] pursuing economic growth, advancing development and improving people’s livelihoods, and has made positive progress in all aspects of work,” Xia was quoted as saying in a statement released by his office late on Wednesday.
He also expressed confidence that Lee and his administration would be “the masters of Hong Kong” and bear the primary responsibility for its governance.
That included being bold in leading reform and innovation, uniting all aspects of society to accurately implement the “one country, two systems” principle, and achieving better development in Hong Kong by better integrating into the overall national development and contributing to the country, he said.