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Hong Kong chief executive made call on housing project at ‘Three-C meeting’, government sources say

Gathering involving city’s leader and top three ministers serves as clearing house for major issues

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Chief Executive Leung Chun- ying and Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah discussing the Wang Chau housing controversy on Wednesday. Photo: Sam Tsang

The weekly meeting involving Hong Kong’s top officials during which a decision was made to defer a key part of a controversial housing project in January 2014 is the government’s high-level clearing house for major issues.

The housing project in Yuen Long was one of many issues discussed at the weekly high-level meeting on January 27, 2014, attended by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah and Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung.

The meeting, which has been in place since Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was chief executive, is held every Monday morning and usually lasts two to three hours.

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A government source familiar with it said the issues cleared by top officials at the meeting, held a day before the Executive Council’s weekly meeting, covered all policy areas such as land, education, health care, politics and security.

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