‘Four hopes’: China’s No 4 official urges Hong Kong delegates to play bigger role in tackling housing, employment, youth and elderly issues
- Wang Huning also tells city’s delegates to strengthen patriotic education at home and ‘tell Hong Kong stories well’ abroad
- No new Hong Kong delegate has been nominated as a vice chair of the top political advisory body following departure of Tung Chee-hwa, Post learns
Wang Huning, the fourth-ranking official in the Politburo Standing Committee of the ruling Communist Party, on Wednesday also told local delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to strengthen patriotic education at home and “tell Hong Kong stories well” abroad.
Separately, the Post has learned that no new local delegate has been nominated as a vice chair of the CPPCC following the departure of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first post-handover chief executive, leaving former leader Leung Chun-ying as the sole representative from the city to serve in the position.
Martin Liao Cheung-kong, a Hong Kong member elected to the top political advisory body’s presidium, said: “[Wang] hoped that we could involve ourselves in alleviating the anxiety and difficulties in society and help the Hong Kong government tackle problems [related to the] elderly, youth, housing, among others.”
