Hong Kong’s leader has won overwhelming support to become vice-chairman of the mainland’s top political advisory body for his firm stance against the city’s pro-independence movement and Occupy movement.

However brief it may have been, the section on Hong Kong in Premier Li Keqiang’s (李克強) annual work report to the state legislature has been taken as an indicator of Beijing’s latest stance towards the city. 

No 3 state leader Zhang Dejiang warns against challenges to national sovereignty and says the city’s GDP could be eclipsed by Shenzhen in two years