Hong Kong Liaison Office

The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LOCPG HK) is the representative office of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong. It is located in Sai Wan, Hong Kong Island. Under the system "one institution with two names," it also holds the alternative name of the Hong Kong Work Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch was established in May 1947, and acted as the unofficial representative of the government of China in Hong Kong until the handover of Hong Kong, in 1997.