Yang Zhaoye, director of Research Office of Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Committee of NPC Standing Committee delivers lecture on central government’s comprehensive jurisdiction

The School of Law of City University of Macau recently held a lecture on “Implementing Comprehensive Jurisdiction of the Central Government, Promoting Sustainable Practice of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Principle.” The guest speaker was Yang Zhaoye, director of the Research Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Committee and Macao Special Administrative Region Basic Law Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Director Yang quoted President Xi’s statement on the central government’s comprehensive jurisdiction and discussed the content, methods, and practices of realizing this important concept through actual cases. He emphasized the importance of understanding the relationship between the central government’s comprehensive jurisdiction and the high degree of autonomy of the special administrative regions from a governance perspective. Vice Rector Ip Kuai Peng and Program Coordinator of the School of Law, Prof. Li Hongjiang, attended the lecture and delivered their remarks.

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Source: School of Law