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4.
The most prominent personalities in NCNA are as follows:
(a)
Xu Jiatun.
At
member of the
(b)
the time of his appointment, Xu Jiatun was a
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
He
Party and the most senior Chinese official ever to have been
stationed in Hong Kong.
retired from the Central
Committee at the recent party delegates' conference but
retained his Hong Kong post. He has adopted a much higher
profile than any of his predecessors and has at times
consciously encouraged the public in Hong Kong to think of
him as a kind of shadow governor.
He is generally affable,
talks freely to the press at public functions, but is
is still
very much a mainland official and is somewhat hampered by his inability to speak either Cantonese or English.
Li Chuwen, Deputy Director. Li is the most senior of the
Deputy Directors. He was Director of the Shanghai Municipal Foreign Affairs Bureau before coming to Hong Kong with Xu. smooth urbane, speak s excellent English and demonstrates a sophisticated knowledge of Hong Kong and the
outside world. He claims to have been a priest, even during
the cultural revolution.
He
is
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(c)
Qiao Zonghuai.
Director.
Son of former Foreign Minister, Qiao Guanhua,
a relatively recent arrival who may eventually become NCNA
Recently appointed an alternate member of the
Central Committee. A member of the Sino-British Joint
Liaison Group. Understands but does not speak much English. A typical example of the younger generation being groomed for succession to senior posts. Good family connections and a
taste for the finer things in life as a result of his
privileged upbringing.
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