The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will review a bill related to Hong Kong next Wednesday (November 29).Examination and exemption must be closed within 180 days.The interviewed Hong Kong scholars believe that even if the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office is closed, it has little impact on Hong Kong.

The "Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Certification Act", which is related to the fate of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the US Economic and Trade Office, is the chairman of the China Congress and the Administrative Department of China, the Republican Republic members Chris Smith, the co -chairman, the Democratic PartySenator Jeff Merkley jointly proposed in February this year.

The two pointed out at the time that as long as Hong Kong maintains its autonomy under the framework of the "one country, two systems", the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office can obtain a diplomatic status, but this framework has been strangled by the Chinese government's increasingly severe intervention in Hong Kong;Citizens and political freedoms guaranteed by international law are rapidly retreating, and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office has become an additional diplomatic whistle in China.

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Act requires US President to include whether the three Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs Office of Washington, New York and San Francisco is worth extending the current privilege, exception and exemption within 30 days after the bill was promulgated.

If the president of the United States determined that it should no longer enjoy diplomatic exemption, the bill is clearly determined that the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office must terminate operation within six months.However, if the President believes that the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office should continue to enjoy diplomatic privileges, Congress has the right to propose a veto resolution; if the resolution is approved, the administrative department must revoke the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of the Foreign Affairs Privilege.

According to the US legislative regulations, if the bill passes through the House of Representatives, it must be approved by the two House of Republics.

Data show that the Hong Kong government has 14 economic and trade offices and five offices in the mainland in overseas and mainland China.Three of the 14 overseas economic and trade offices are in the United States.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao met with the head of 19 offices on Wednesday (November 22) to listen to their work reports and discuss the implementation and promotion of relevant policies.Li Jiachao encouraged all the supervisors of all economic and trade offices to strengthen cooperation with all walks of life to tell the real Hong Kong story, promote the unique advantages of Hong Kong's "back to the motherland and the world of Unicom", and integrate the national development situation with the director of Hong Kong, and contribute to the country.

Li Jiachao said on a social platform that the overseas and mainland offices are important bridges of the SAR government overseas and the mainland. They assist the SAR government to promote Hong Kong, attract talents, and maintain Hong Kong groups in various places.In today's geopolitical and complicated environment, the overseas offices are even more important to protect the interests of the country and Hong Kong.

For the proposal of the United States Congress, the Privilege for exemption of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the United States, Liu Zhaojia, a consultant to the China Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, pointed out in the United Morning Post that anti -China has become the consensus between the United States, and the probability of passing the bill is very high.Bayon is more likely to sign a bill because of taking into account domestic votes.

But he believes that even if the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office is closed, the impact on Hong Kong will not be too great.In the future, the Hong Kong Government can take over the economic and trade work in the United States by the Hong Kong Government and other departments.As for political lobbying work, "under the current atmosphere of Sino -US relations, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the United States has basically no job to do it, and it can be followed up by the Chinese Embassy in the United States in the future."