During a meeting with the 12 local deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing yesterday, Vice Premier Han Zheng listed “four hopes” for Macau’s civil society, such as to actively participate in events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Macau’s return to the motherland and to support the current local government’s work to ensure the smooth transition to the next one, local NPC deputy José Chui Sai Peng told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting at the Great Hall of the People.
Chui is a member of the Macau Legislative Assembly (AL).
The delegation of the 12 local NPC deputies, who are attending the ongoing second session of the 13th NPC, held a working meeting yesterday, during which six local NPC deputies made speeches on various topics, such as about Macau’s participation in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA).
The ongoing second session of the 13th NPC, which started on Tuesday, will end on Friday next week. The 13th NPC is in session from 2018 to 2023, with the first session held in March last year. Each NPC term has five sessions. The annual session is customarily held in March every year. The last session of the 13th NPC is slated to be held in March 2022.
Han, 64, is one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee – the nation’s top governing body, officially known as the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Community Party of China (CPC).
Han, who ranks first among the four vice-premiers of the State Council, attended yesterday’s meeting of the local NPC delegation – headed by Macau Legislative Assembly President Ho Iat Seng – at the Great Hall of the People.
Ho, the only member of the NPC Standing Committee from Macau, has said that he is “actively and prudently” considering running for Macau’s highest post in this summer’s chief executive election.
Vice Premier Han Zheng (center), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, joins a panel discussion by deputies from Macau at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday, flanked by Macau Legislative Assembly (AL) President Ho Iat Seng (second from left), Central People’s Government Liaison Office in Macau Director Fu Ziying (left), Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council Director Zhang Xiaoming (right) and State Council Deputy Secretary General Ding Xuedong (second from right). – Xinhua
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