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For Hong Kong affairs, the Chinese top official said that the city needs to prioritize national security to ensure prosperity.
The National Security Act imposed by China helped Hong Kong maintain its position as an international financial center, Zia Bolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, said on Saturday on his third visit to a semi-late city in three years.
Zia marking the fifth anniversary of the 2020 National Security Act implementation of Beijing’s implementation said, “Intense changes are taking place inside and outside. To provide a good security security to achieve better development of Hong Kong, it is necessary to fully implement a country, two system theory guided by national security.
His comments on the emphasis of China on national security in recent years, following the opposition of the former British colony in 2019 after protest against massive democracy, a continuity on alleged threats and the introduction of auxiliary law affected political dissatisfaction and led the imprisonment of dozens of former workers.
Earlier this month, Beijing’s National Security Office in the city launched its first known joint joint campaign with the local police to investigate a case of alleged foreign collusion. The same week, the authorities called for a security law to ban a Taiwanese-made video game, accusing the government of advocating to overthrow.
Zia’s speech on stage represents the most public appearance made during her five -day visit to be began on Wednesday, including meetings with political and business leaders.
He discussed with the presidents of the first university in the week, as an innovation and talent center to strengthen the vision of Beijing for Hong Kong.
Zia’s tenure, appointed as the top individual of Beijing in Hong Kong in 2020, has seen the growing integration between the rest of China with the rest of China. He has urged the city to accelerate the development of its so -called northern metropolis, a vast area on the border of the city, the mainland of Shenzhen.
Zia’s journey comes in Hong Kong’s grapes with economic headwind, which is a slow Chinese economy and a prolonged slope of property. The city is also caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war, with the tariff installed by the Trump administration, now applied on Hong Kong-made items, making the lines between the city and the mainland China more staining.
Nevertheless, some observers argued that Hong Kong benefited contradictoryly from deteriorating the US-China relationship. After declaring the city a “over” in February last February, former president of Morgan Stanley Asia, Stephen Rach, recently said that the region could have benefits due to its unique position as China’s most important window for international finance.
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