Chinese Community Party propaganda heavyweight parachuted to Hong Kong Liaison Office: reports

蘋果日報 2020/11/26 23:35


A member of the Chinese Communist Party’s top law enforcement agency in Beijing has been appointed to Hong Kong, becoming the deputy minister of Beijing’s Liaison Office propaganda department, the city’s pro-Beijing newspapers reported on Thursday.
The new deputy minister is reportedly Zheng Lin, who was most recently the deputy director of the Politics and Law Information Center, a division under the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. She was also the editor of the commission’s mouthpiece called the Chang’an Sword, where she was praised as being both “flexible and pragmatic.”
Zheng rose to prominence as a frontline reporter at the party-run China Youth Daily for two decades, and won the China News Award and the title of “Nation’s Most Outstanding Journalist” several times.
She reportedly joined the commission four years ago and worked under the party’s legal affairs and public opinion monitoring departments.
Beijing typically arranges its personnel at the Hong Kong Liaison Office in response to the city’s current situation. In January this year when the city was caught up in anti-government protests, Luo Huining, former party secretary of the Shanxi province known to strictly adhere to the party’s principles, was appointed as the office director.
As the Liaison Office website only discloses the identities of its director, deputy directors and secretary-general, it is unclear whether Zheng has assumed the position.
Zheng gave a lecture organized by the Chinese Ministry of Justice on national judicial administration, news and public opinion in mid-October.
She published an article last year condemning Hong Kong’s pro-democracy heavyweights — Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, Anson Chan and Albert Ho — as the “four thugs” who damaged Hong Kong.
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