HONG KONG, XINJIANG, AND TIBET Institutions

Other CLGHKMA members usually include the Director of the CCP United Front Work Department, the Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Party Secretary and Governor of Guangdong Province (which borders Hong Kong and Macao), and the Directors of Beijing’s Liaison Offices in Hong Kong and Macao. [...] The Hong Kong National Security Law, passed in Beijing in June 2020, led to the establishment the next month of the deputy ministerial-level Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (OSNS). [...] Since the handover in 1997, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has, as stipulated in the Basic Law, supervised Hong Kong’s external relations through a deputy ministerial-level Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (MOFACO). [...] Founded in 1997, the NPCSC Committee on the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a ministerial-level working organ of the national legislature with responsibility for studying and advising on the NPCSC’s powers regarding Hong Kong legislation and the interpretation and amendment of the Hong Kong Basic Law. [...] The party’s Leading Group for Building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (CLGGBA) was founded in 2018 includes the Executive Vice Premier as the Director; the Party Secretary of Guangdong and a Vice Premier as Deputy Directors; and the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Executive of Macao, Director of the HKLO, Director of the Macao Liaison Office, and Executive Deputy Director of th.