By Chris Yeung
Any doubts about Beijing’s backing of chief executive-elect Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor would now have been laid to rest following her visit to Beijing this week. Reading from a script, President Xi Jinping heaped praises on Mrs Lam, which could be seen as a statement of record about why she was chosen by the ruling Communist Party to lead Hong Kong in the next five years.
Expected as it was, Xi’s full and unambiguous backing of her is a must-have for her to do the task of healing the wounds inflicted by the incumbent chief Leung Chun-ying since 2012 and putting the city back on the track of economic and social progress in the next five years.
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