Local media in Macau report that Wang Zhimin, a deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, will assume the post of director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, replacing Li Gang.
The Macau Daily Post and Sing Tao Daily, quoting unnamed sources, reported that Wang is already in Macau, and will take the post “soon.” The local liaison office director is the highest-ranking central government official posted to Macau.
Chan Wing Kee, a Hong Kong businessman and member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, said Li is stepping aside because of health problems. Chan said Wang is “absolutely capable of doing the job,” the report added.
According to the website of the News of the Communist Party of China website, the 59-year-old Wang is a native of Fujian’s Xianyou County. He graduated from Fujian Normal University’s Faculty of Economics and Law in 1975. From 2008 to 2015, he was a deputy director of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
