英文摘要 |
In its 19th National Congress report in October 2017, the Chinese Communist Party proposed“comprehensive jurisdiction”over Hong Kong and imposed“constitutional responsibility”on the Hong Kong government. What organizational and personnel adjustments have been made in China’s party-state apparatus on Hong Kong affairs since then? Although recent literature on Hong Kong has addressed changes in the regime’s Hong Kong policy, there is little systematic discussion of how the CCP implements its policies through institutional and personnel adjustments. This article aims to fill this gap. The article finds that the CCP has adopted the organizational line of“strengthening centralized and unified leadership”to implement the new political line of“total control”. This organizational line is reflected in three trends:“strengthening the vertical chain of command”,“building a new national security system for Hong Kong”, and“weakening internal promotion considerations for personnel arrangements in Hong Kong-related departments”. As centralization of power is the most important feature of Chinese politics in the Xi Jinping era, what this article finds in the Hong Kong-related system reflects the CCP’s inertia in facing environmental challenges during Xi’s era. |