Former Xinhua official Zhang Junsheng calls Hong Kong's unofficial poll meaningless
Another former mainland representative in Hong Kong has dismissed the unofficial poll on Hong Kong's electoral reform in which more than 720,000 people have cast ballots.
Another former mainland representative in Hong Kong has dismissed the unofficial poll on Hong Kong's electoral reform in which more than 720,000 people have cast ballots.
Zhang Junsheng, a former deputy director of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong, called the exercise meaningless and questioned whether those who voted knew what it was about.
He also said many of the pan-democrats spearheading the exercise and the Occupy Central movement "have never done anything good for Hong Kong".
His views were rejected by an organiser of the ballot as an insult to Hongkongers.
Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar organised by pro-Beijing newspaper , Zhang said the organisers of the civil disobedience movement could not pressurise the Hong Kong and central governments no matter how many people voted in the "referendum", which he said was not legally binding.
Xinhua's Hong Kong branch was the predecessor of the central government's liaison office in Hong Kong.
Zhang, who retired as its deputy director in 1998 after 13 years in Hong Kong, spoke a day after Chen Zuoer , a former deputy director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, called the public vote unrepresentative.
