A senior cadre at Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong with a rich financial background is expected to be transferred back to the capital for a new role in a committee advising leadership on economic policies for the next five-year plan, the Post has learned.
Qi Bin, who turned 57 last month, was appointed by the State Council in November last year to take up the post of deputy director of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
It is understood that he will be made a deputy director of an economic committee under the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the nation’s top political advisory body.
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The committee advises leadership on strategies for the nation’s 15th five-year plan. Next year will kick off the new development blueprint.
Qi’s most recent public appearance as a liaison office deputy director was at last week’s opening ceremony for the Hong Kong section of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone.
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The central government’s liaison office is headed by Zhou Ji, formerly an executive deputy director at the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, who assumed the new post in May.