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| Formation | August 1978 |
|---|---|
| Type | Policy coordination and consultation body |
| Location |
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Leader | Ding Xuexiang |
Executive Deputy Leader | Xia Baolong |
Deputy Leaders | Chen Wenqing Shi Taifeng Wang Xiaohong Wang Yi Xia Baolong |
Parent organisation | Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Subsidiaries | Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office |
| Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 中央港澳工作领导小组 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中央港澳工作領導小組 | ||||||||||
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TheCentral Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs is an internal policy coordination group of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), reporting to theCCP Politburo, in charge of supervising and coordinating Beijing's policies towards theSpecial Administrative Regions ofHong Kong andMacau.
The Group is the highest body for China's policy towards Hong Kong and Macau. TheGeneral Office for the group is also known as theHong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
The Group was established as the Central Coordination Group for Hong Kong and Macau Affairs on 17 August 1978 though an informal Hong Kong-Macau affairs group had formed much earlier.[1]
In order to deal with increasingly seriousJuly 1 marches in Hong Kong in 2003, thenPolitburo Standing Committee (PSC) member and Vice PresidentZeng Qinghong became leader of the group that year, and China's policy towards the SARs underwent significant reforms.[citation needed] Most notably, the group enacted theMainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) and theMainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, preferential trade agreements, and theIndividual Visit Scheme, which allowed mainlanders to visit Hong Kong and Macau on an individual basis without having to apply for group visas or go through officially approved tour groups.[citation needed]
In 2020, in the context of the2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, the group was upgraded from a Central Coordination Group to a Central Leading Group.[2]
Under the Party and State reforms adopted in 2023, theHong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council became theexternal name of the "Hong Kong and Macau Work Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party".[3][4]
The Central Leading Group is the CCP's top decision-making body in regards to Hong Kong and Macau.[5]
TheHong Kong and Macau Work Office is the executive arm of the Central Leading Group, responsible for researching, coordinating between national and local governments, and supervising the implementation of Hong Kong and Macau affairs related policies, such as theone country, two systems framework and national security.[5] The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, previously a separate unit, is theexternal name of the Office.
Since 2003, the group has always been led by a member of the PSC. The leader of the Central Leading Group is generally theFirst Vice Premier, with theMinister of Public Security and director of theHong Kong and Macau Work Office serving as deputy leaders. Other members generally include head of theUnited Front Work Department, director of the Office of theCentral Foreign Affairs Commission, theMinister of Foreign Affairs, theCCP Committee secretary and governor of Guangdong, and the directors of theHong Kong andMacau Liaison Offices.[5]
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