The State Council in Beijing has recalled Zhang Rongshun from his post as deputy director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, according to a statement by the office in Macau yesterday.
The State Council has not yet announced who will succeed Zhang, who had been a deputy director of the office in Macau since June 2018.
The Liaison Office in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) has four deputy directors in its organisational structure.
However, before Zhang’s departure from the post of deputy director, the Liaison Office in the MSAR only had two deputy directors, i.e., two of the four deputy director positions were left vacant.
After Zhang left the post of deputy director, which was announced yesterday, the Liaison Office currently only has one deputy director in place, Yan Zhichan.
Zhang, 59, started to work for the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) in 1986. He became a deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, as well as a deputy director of its Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Basic Law Committee, and of its Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Basic Law Committee, in 2013.
The Liaison Office in the MSAR has been headed by Zheng Xincong since May this year. Zheng is the most senior central government official posted to Macau.
Zhang Rongshun, then still a deputy director of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau, delivers a speech during the “Macao Urban Transformation and Development Dialogue” in August jointly organised by the local government and the Office of the Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Macau, at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex in Nam Van. – Photo: GCS
