Spokesperson of the Hong Kong Comprehensive Police Force

Chapter 401 The meeting was a complete success
On November 15, 1996, the first meeting of the SAR government's selection committee was officially opened at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The entrance time for the meeting is 3:00 p.m. that day.

Compared with the previous handover ceremony negotiation meeting, the security level of this election meeting was undoubtedly much lower.

At least the public security level of the entire Hong Kong Island has not been affected by this.

Among all the people attending the meeting, except for a few important figures from the motherland's Da Xinhua, the other people did not need the security department's all-round and no-dead-angle security protection.

For Zhou Quan, apart from sending a VIP protection team to the Xinhua News Agency Building for escort, he only needs to be responsible for the security issues of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

At eight o'clock that morning, he brought Zhou Xingxing and Guan Wenzhan to the conference and exhibition center to check various details of the venue.

In fact, for this security mission, Guan Wenzhan and his G4 VIP protection team were enough to keep the situation under control.

It’s just to show that the Security Department and the police force attach great importance to this meeting.

Zhou Quan also added Zhou Xingxing's T team and went to the conference and exhibition center in person to take charge.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the participants began to enter one of the two lecture halls in the convention and exhibition center.

There are a total of one thousand seats here. Although it is not as large as the lobby of a world-class conference hall, it is enough to accommodate all the participants in the meeting.

After all, there are only about 400 people from all walks of life in Hong Kong who are eligible to vote.

Even if we add the staff from Daxinhua, there will be more than enough seats in this lecture hall.

The first meeting of the SAR government selection committee was chaired by Mr. Wang, who is now in charge of Hong Kong Island affairs.

Compared with the national-level negotiation meeting two months ago, Zhou Quan's treatment today has obviously improved a lot.

At that time, as a powerful officer in the police force, he was only qualified to guard the door in the lobby of the convention and exhibition center.

This time, although he was not eligible to vote, he was eligible to enter the venue and sit down.

Wearing a neatly ironed black suit, Zhou Quan sat in the corner of the venue with Zhou Xingxing and Guan Wenzhan, who were also well-dressed.

In such an important occasion, these three police captains will obviously represent the mental outlook of the entire police force to a certain extent.

Therefore, even though Zhou Xingxing is used to dressing comfortably on weekdays, he is also dressed very formally today.

However, the three of them would not participate in the election of the Chief Executive of the SAR government, so they did not join in the fun in crowded places.

Do your job well, listen more and watch more, talk less and move less.

At 3:20 sharp, the first meeting of the SAR government's selection committee officially kicked off.

After an hour of voting and counting, Mr. Wang personally announced the list of candidates for the next Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.

Just as the popular guess before the election began, Mr. Tung, Mr. Yang, and Mr. Wu successfully became the official candidates for the next Chief Executive.

The three of them are among the eight candidates on the initial candidate list and are the only ones who received more than fifty votes.

After the official list of candidates is successfully confirmed, the next step is naturally to thoroughly elect the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.

In less than a month, the SAR government's selection committee held two more meetings.

On December 11, 1996, the last meeting of the Selection Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government continued at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The police force's security personnel are still led by Zhou Quan, Zhou Xingxing and Guan Wenzhan, who bring their respective teams to participate.

Although this meeting was still hosted by Mr. Wang, he was not the most prominent figure in the motherland.

Since today is the day when the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government after the return of Hong Kong Island was decided, the motherland attaches great importance to this meeting. All the staff of the Hong Kong Island Handover Preparatory Committee attended the meeting.

Mr. Qian, chairman of the Hong Kong Return Preparatory Committee, the biggest figure in the motherland's diplomacy, and also a member of the Presbyterian Church, personally went south to attend the event.

With Mr. Qian’s speech, the last meeting of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Selection Committee officially kicked off.

Among the three candidates for the first Chief Executive of the next SAR government, Mr. Tung finally won with an extremely high number of votes of 320.

It is no exaggeration to describe this result as what everyone expected.

After all, the total number of votes for the entire Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Election Committee is only 400.

The final election results of the meeting were announced by Mr. Qian himself.

In accordance with the provisions of the Basic Law, he will convene the seventh plenary meeting of the Hong Kong Return Preparatory Committee tomorrow and report the election results of Mr. Tung to the Presbyterian Church of the motherland.

As soon as the official appointment document is issued, Mr. Tung will be the first Chief Executive of the next SAR government.

When Mr. Wang, who was in charge of presiding over the meeting, announced the successful conclusion of the Election Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.

Zhou Quan took Zhou Xingxing and Guan Wenzhan to leave the venue as soon as possible and was responsible for the security work during the exit of the participants.

Three police captains were dressed in plain clothes, with their respective warrant cards hanging on their chests, standing outside the lobby door of the convention and exhibition center with their bodies as tall and straight as pine trees.

All the participants began to leave one after another. The group of people walking in the front were naturally the bigwigs of the Hong Kong Return Preparatory Committee.

Mr. Qian was strolling leisurely in front of the garden. Although he was old, he was full of energy and spirit, without any sign of old age.

"Young man, I know you, keep working hard!"

When passing through the gate, Mr. Qian paused, and his gentle and kind eyes slowly fell on Zhou Quan.

Zhou Quan's grandfather, Mr. Zhou, was not only Mr. Qian's deputy, but they also had a very close relationship.

With this relationship in place, coupled with Zhou Quan’s own support for Hong Kong’s return over the years and his contributions to the motherland.

Although Mr. Qian met Zhou Quan for the first time today, he had obviously heard of Zhou Quan's existence a long time ago.

Mr. Qian naturally admires this young man who has a firm stance and is capable of getting things done.

Feeling the attention of the big boss of the motherland, Zhou Quan subconsciously stood straighter.

"Be loyal to your country!"

With his head held high and his chest puffed out, Zhou Quan stamped his feet, stood at attention, and raised his hand to salute without hesitation.

After all, this is a public place, and there are many people from Hong Kong Island around, so Zhou Quan did not take any action that was inconsistent with the current situation.

Otherwise, according to Zhou Quan's idea, he would definitely give a standard Chinese military salute and shout slogans to serve the people.

It’s a pity that Zhou Quan has not yet reached the point where he can act completely according to his own wishes without taking any factors into consideration.

Today, the standard etiquette of the Hong Kong Police Force is still based on the foreign military salute.

Zhou Quan, who represents the face of the police force to a certain extent, naturally cannot do anything that is inconsistent with the police system.

There is nothing wrong with being loyal to the motherland, but serving the people is too advanced.

(End of this chapter)