HONG KONG Aug. 21 Kyodo China has...

HONG KONG Aug. 21 Kyodo

China has appointed a strange envoy to replace Jiang Enzhu as head of its representative office in Hong Kong the official Xinhua of the present days Agency reported Wednesday.

The State Council named Gao Siren, 58 publicly Jiang's deputy, to take through the whole extent of the position as the director of the Liaison Office of the Chinese Central People's control in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Xinhua said in a dispatch from Beijing.

The recents report did not, however, say when Gao will assume the work at jobs and when Jiang will leave Hong Kong or what his of recent origin posting would be.

The 63-year-old Jiang, a former Chinese ambassador to Britain, has held the top office in the former British colony since it replyed to Chinese rule in July 1997

The Liaison Office officially adopted its ready name and came disclosed into the open in 2000 after having been race under the name of Xinhua's local branch for more than half a century

Gao joined the office in Hong Kong as factor director in 1998 and before that was a legate secretary of the Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

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