The State Council has removed Yao Jian from the post of vice-director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, according to a statement by the office in Macau on Friday.
The State Council has not yet announced who will succeed Yao, who had been one of the four vice-directors of the office in Macau since August 2014.
The other three vice-directors of the office, which has been headed by Fu Ziying since December 2018, are Zhang Rongshun, Yan Zhichan and Zheng Xincong.
Yao, born in 1962, has a doctoral degree in legal studies. Before his appointment to Macau, Yao was a vice-mayor of the north-eastern port city of Qingdao and worked in senior positions in the Ministry of Commerce.
This file photo shows the then vice-director of the Central People’s Government Office Liaison Office in Macau, Yao Jian (third from left), visiting the Macau Wholesale Market in Ilha Verde, which is run by Guangdong Nam Yue Group Corporation Limited, in February this year. Photo: Liaison Office
