Wang Guangya Director of State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Retired

Wang Guangya， born March 1950 in Jiangsu province， is a Chinese diplomat who is Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. A career diplomat， Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served as Permanent Representative of the Peoples Republic of China to the United Nations from 2003 to 2008.

Wang studied at Student Center of British Council， The United World College of the Atlantic and London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. He is a graduate from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1982.

Wang was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations on 25 August 2003. He was President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of February 2004. On 3 May 2006， when Britain and France introduced a UN Security Council resolution insisting Iran end its nuclear program， Wang commented， “I dont think this draft as it stands now will produce good results. I think its tougher than expected.”

According to a September 2006 profile of Wang in The New York Times Magazine， he was considered the top contender for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in Beijing in 2007.

In October 2010 he became the second posthandover director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. There have only been two directors for the affairs office. Wang spends most of his time in Beijing. Though he did make a three-day visit to HK in 2011 to address the Home Ownership Scheme issue. His working style is very different compared to the previous director Liao Hui who kept silent from public and worked in mystery the 13 years he was in charge of HK.endprint