A key Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has urged local delegates to play a “more proactive role” in advancing the city’s prosperity and stability, as they arrived in the capital for the annual meetings of the country’s legislature and political advisory body.

The Post also learned that billionaire Pansy Ho Chiu-king, former minister Ko Wing-man and veteran politician Martin Liao Cheung-kong would join the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), as part of the top national advisory body’s standing committee.