Beijing’s point man on Hong Kong affairs wraps up second bay area visit in 3 weeks

Beijing’s top official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has concluded his second visit to the Greater Bay Area in three weeks, a move that analysts view as a push from the central government to speed up the city’s integration with national development. Xia Baolong, director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was in Guangdong province earlier this week, visiting several mainland Chinese cities in the Greater Bay Area. State-run media described the four-day visit as a “resea...

By Ng Kang-chung