Taking Charge
	Beijing has reorganized its bureaucracy to tighten its control over Hong Kong. The new order:
	By Neil Gough | Hong Kong

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004; 20:00 HKT
Central Leading Group
This Beijing-based task force consists of 18 top Communist Party cadres headed by Vice President Zeng Qinghong, China's new supremo for Hong Kong. It was set up after last year's July 1 rally to be Beijing's chief policymaker for the territory

Liaison Office
The central government's main representative in Hong Kong, it serves primarily as a fact finder and mouthpiece for Beijing. It now has eight deputy directors, some appointed by Zeng, to improve intelligence gathering

Hong Kong and Macau affairs office
Based in Beijing, this unit of the State Council, China's Cabinet, advises the country's leadership about Hong Kong and coordinates meetings with official delegations from the territory. Its role has been partly supplanted by the new Hong Kong and Macau Research Institute, which was established by Zeng and is headed by his middle school classmate Zhu Yucheng

Foreign Ministry
A de facto embassy that deals mainly with visas and protocol, the ministry has seen its power diminish. Its Hong Kong chief was fired after July 1 last year

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
Once the bridge between Hong Kong and Beijing, it is now sidelined on everything from residency rights to political reform, making Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa effectively a lame duck

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