China’s State Council has appointed three senior officials to positions in the SAR’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security. They include the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, Fu Ziying.
According to Macau Business, Fu has been named national security affairs adviser and will supervise, coordinate and support national security in Macau. Zheng Xincong, deputy director of the Liaison Office and Yin Shuhua were appointed as national security technical advisers.
Macau enacted its own national security law in 2009 and established a high-level committee in 2018 to oversee related matters. Its members include Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, as well as the city’s justice, security and police chiefs.
Ho welcomed the appointments in an official dispatch, underlining that authorities would continue to “work strictly in line” with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law of the MSAR, and “fully support” the work of the National Security Affairs Adviser and the National Security Technical Advisers.
