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"ON WANG KUANG COMING SOUTH AND HONG KONG'S PROSPECTS"
by Yu I-chih (Cheng Ming No.10, August 1978)
See three points from one point
Wang K'uang's posting to Hong Kong has attracted the attention of various quarters. This former propaganda director
of the CCP Central-South Bureau before the Cultural Revolution
is said to have a pleasant personality and to have favourably impressed certain people in Hong Kong and Macau. After the Cultural Revolution, Wang was named Chief of the State Publications Administrative Bureau directly under the State Council. The months-old news of his transfer to Hong Kong (the vacancy this created was filled by Chen Han-po) was favourably received.
The public attention to Wang K'uang's coming south and to the strengthening of the top leadership structure of
NCNA's Hong Kong branch is a manifestation of concern over the
development of the situation in Hong Kong. What will be the new moves of Communist China in Hong Kong? What are Hong
Kong's prospects? These questions are being discussed. questions were reportedly raised by some members of the Hong Kong University's Student Union when they recently visited the editorial department of this journal.
Such
The appointment of a Minister-level person as Director (more accurately the First Director) of the NCNA
Hong Kong branch is unprecedented. From this point alone it can be imagined that: first, the Chinese attach tremendous
importance to Hong Kong and Macau; second, they are vigorously developing their work in many respects in these two places; and third, the recovery of Hong Kong is far from being placed on their agenda.
"Serious attention" and "extreme concern"
The Chinese Communists have always paid serious attention to Hong Kong and Macau because of their tremendous
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