Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung gives an interview on June 9. (ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY)

HONG KONG - Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung will leave Hong Kong on Monday for a four-day visit to Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

While in Beijing, Tang will call on the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Justice and the General Administration of Customs, according to a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government statement. 

The heads of the Hong Kong Police Force, the Immigration Department, the Customs and Excise Department, the Correctional Services Department, the Fire Services Department and the Government Flying Service will join Tang's visit

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He will depart for Guangzhou on Wednesday night and call on the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department and the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau the next day. He will return to Hong Kong by land on Thursday evening.

The heads of the Hong Kong Police Force, the Immigration Department, the Customs and Excise Department, the Correctional Services Department, the Fire Services Department and the Government Flying Service will join the visit.

During Tang's absence, the Under Secretary for Security Michael Cheuk Hau-yip will be the Acting Secretary for Security.

Labor chief

Meanwhile, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han will lead a Hong Kong social welfare sector delegation for a three-day visit to the Chinese mainland cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Zhongshan in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on Monday morning to visit elderly and rehabilitation service facilities and exchange views with relevant officials, according to a separate HKSAR government statement. 

The delegation will include heads and high-level representatives from the Hong Kong Social Welfare Sector Heart to Heart Joint Action, community associations, non-governmental organisations and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. 

Representatives of the Labour and Welfare Bureau, the Elderly Commission, the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee and the Social Welfare Department will also join the visit.

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Sun and the delegation will attend an exchange seminar to be hosted by the Department of Civil Affairs of Guangdong Province on the development of the GBA. 

The delegation will visit community and residential care service units and keep abreast of the latest developments of Qianhai in Shenzhen and the GBA, according to the statement.

Sun will return to Hong Kong on the afternoon of April 26. In his absence, Under Secretary for Labour and Welfare Ho Kai-ming will be the Acting Secretary for Labour and Welfare, it added.