Nong Rong, a deputy director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), has met a media delegation from the city in Beijing.

He was joined at the meeting on Sunday by Sun Shangwu, the new deputy chief of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, who made his public debut a day after taking up the post.

They met representatives from some 20 mainstream media outlets, including the South China Morning Post.

Sun was appointed as a deputy director of the liaison office on Saturday.

A picture accompanying a statement from the HKMAO showed Sun with the delegation.

Sun, 56, was previously the deputy editor-in-chief of the English-language China Daily newspaper.