Insider says talks between Beijing’s top man in Hong Kong and Guangdong officials produce push for stronger connections along lines of infrastructure, rules and regulations.
2023 opened and closed with high-profile national security trials, as well as big firsts for city leader John Lee and district council revamp at other points.
Beijing will require both Hong Kong and Macau to deliver ‘more substantial’ results in key areas as a result of the visits becoming ‘more institutionalised’, observers say.