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Senior Beijing officials have hailed Hong Kong’s leader as an example of “women’s strength and heroism” in how she handled the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2019 social unrest, but cited the gender gap in the local workforce as an area for improvement. Liu Guangyuan, the Chinese foreign ministry’s Hong Kong commissioner, and Lu Xinning, a deputy director of Beijing’s liaison office in the city, heaped praise on Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor at a women’s empowerment forum on Saturday. The pair were among more than 30 political and business heavyweights who spoke at the Second Women Power Forum, organised...
