Wang Zhimin appointed as the new Liaison Office head

Wang Zhimin

The State Council of the PRC appointed Wang Zhimin to be the new head of the Central Government Liaison Office in Macau, as announced in a statement released by the Council. Li Gang, the former Liaison Office head, is now the deputy head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.
Wang Zhimin was born in 1957 in the Fujian province, and graduated from Fujian Normal University before starting his career in 1975 in the province where he grew up. Between the years of 1976 and 1978, Wang worked at the Fuzhou Military Area Command (Fuzhou MAC) as a soldier and also as a secretary. Afterward, between 1978 and 1982, he studied at the PLA Information Engineering University.
From 1982 to 1992, he served at the Fuzhou MAC, and at the office of the Fujian Secretariat. During the following two years, from 1992 to 1994, Wang worked for Xin Hua News Agency Hong Kong branch, before he was assigned back to Fujian in 1998 to work as an assistant of the Mayor of Xiamen, the capital of Fujian. Wang spent until 2006 in the province, when he was appointed deputy head of the Central Government Liaison Office in Hong Kong.  In 2015, Wang became the deputy head of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council.
Li Gang, the former head of the Liaison Office was born in 1955 in Shandong province. Li was an English major graduate before he started working in 1974. He was the head of the Macau Liaison Office between 2014 and 2016, having worked as deputy head of the Hong Kong Liaison Office from 2003 to 2012 prior to his appointment to Macau. Before that he served at China’s Ministry of Culture.