China's President Xi Jinping said before his potential visit to the city that people in Hong Kong and on the mainland should develop “a closer emotional bond."
Xi made the call in a letter Sunday to the Beijing-friendly newspaper Ta Kung Pao on its 120th anniversary, saying it had “unequivocally sent out positive notes and helped forge social consensus, thus contributing to maintaining Hong Kong’s stability.”
The newspaper should “carry forward its patriotic traditions,” Xi wrote, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, and “contribute more to realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.”
