On November 15, 1996, the first meeting of the Special Administrative Region Government Selection Committee officially opened at the Hong Kong Island Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Admission to the meeting began at three o'clock that afternoon.
Compared with the earlier negotiations over the reunification handover ceremony, security for this election meeting was undoubtedly much lighter.
At the very least, the public security level across Hong Kong Island had not been affected.
Among all those attending, apart from several important figures from the Motherland's Big Xinhua, no one required comprehensive protection from the Security Department with no blind spots.
For Zhou Quan, aside from sending the VIP Protection Group to the Xinhua News Agency Building to provide an escort, he only needed to handle security at the Hong Kong Island Convention and Exhibition Centre.
At eight that morning, he arrived at the Convention and Exhibition Centre with Chow Sing Sing and Kwan Man Chin to inspect every detail of the venue.
In fact, Kwan Man Chin and the G4 VIP Protection Group under his command would have been enough to keep things under control for this security assignment.
However, this was to demonstrate the great importance that the Security Department and the Police Force attached to the meeting.
Zhou Quan still added Chow Sing Sing's T Group to the deployment and went to the Convention and Exhibition Centre to oversee matters personally.
At precisely three in the afternoon, everyone attending began entering one of the Convention and Exhibition Centre's two lecture halls.
It had a full thousand seats. Although it was not as large as the foyer of the world-class conference hall, it was more than sufficient to accommodate everyone attending.
After all, the eligible voters from all sectors of Hong Kong Island society numbered only four hundred in total.
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