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Annex 'B' to Serial No. 3516

dated 30th June, 1978

Pen pictures of the most senior party cadres responsible for implementing policy in Hong Kong and of some of those whose

duties may include liaison with the Political Adviser

The party

1.

;

WONG Hong (3769/0652 m. WANG K'uang), a 60 year old Cantonese who is to be posted to

Hong Kong in early July, 1978 as the Director of the local branch of the New China News Agency (N.C.N.A.) through which appointment he will almost certainly automatically become the First Secretary of the clandestine Hong Kong and Macao Work Committee. He has a long.. revolutionary history:

1942-49

In Yenan; correspondent of the N.C.N.A.; delegate of cultural circles of .Canton Call-Circles People's Conference.

1950-62

Director, Southern Daily; Director, Kwangtung Branch, N.C.N.A. Council member, Canton Branch, All-China Journalists Assoc-

iation

Member, Kwangtung Provincial Committee, Chinese People's

Political Consultative Conference (C.P.P.C.C.) Director, Press and Publication Office, Canton Municipal

Party Group

Reported until 1960 to have had some responsibility for Hong

Kong and Macao affairs

Deputy Director, Propaganda Department, South China Sub-

Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.)

Secretary-General, Kwangtung Branch, Chinese People's Committee

for World Peace

G.F. 316

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.../Member