Xu Yingwei, director of the former Civil Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong, confirmed that he has taken over as the executive director of the hotel owner federation.

According to the Sing Tao Daily, Li Hansheng, the executive director of the Hong Kong Hotel Ownership Federation, died at the end of last year, and the position left has been hanging.Xu Yingwei confirmed on Tuesday (April 4) confirmed that he had taken this new job and started meeting with the industry recently. On Tuesday, he would meet with the Legislative Council's tourist community Yao Bailiang.

Since the death of Li Hansheng, the Hong Kong Hotel Industry Federation has not been the executive director of the executive.Before joining the Hong Kong government, Xu Yingwei served as the banking industry. When asked about the relationship with the hotel industry, Xu Yingwei praised the federation manager Chen Yuanyan very helpful. It is believed that the Federation hopes that he can help the industry and do more policy -related work.

He continued that the hotel industry counted his own "old business". For example, when he served as the director, he had dealt with the draft of the 2018 hotel industry (revised) regulations.Related to the hotel, even if the industry discusses input foreign workers now, it is a project he had dealt with when he had served as the deputy director of the Labor Bureau.

According to Xinhua News Agency in February last year, the Chinese State Council decided to remove Xu Yingwei's Hong Kong Civil Affairs Bureau's director according to the advice of the then Chief Executive Lin Zheng Yue'e.

Xu Yingwei, who was involved in the "Hongmen Banquet" storm, attended the "Flowing Water" birthday party of Hong Weimin, the representative of the Hong Kong District People's Congress on January 3 last year.It was also criticized by Lin Zheng.Xu Yingwei later announced that he made a resignation to Lin Zheng.A total of 15 Hong Kong government officials and 20 legislative members attended the above party.