¡i©ú³ø±M°T¡jThe Incident On March 4, Politburo Standing Committee member Zhang Dejiang (¤¤¥¡¬Fªv§½±`©e±i¼w¦¿) met Hong Kong and Macao members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, ¥þ°ê¬F¨ó·|ij) attending a CPPCC session in Beijing. At their informal discussion, Peter Lee Ka-kit, a Hong Kong businessman who sits on the CPPCC Standing Committee (¬F¨ó±`©eÝ»´ä°Ó¤H§õ®a³Ç), criticised Public Opinion Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKUPOP, »´ä¤j¾Ç¥Á·N¬ã¨sp¹º), headed by Dr Robert Chung Ting-yiu (Áé®xÄ£), for often releasing at critical moments survey findings unfavourable to the central government, the SAR government and the aiguo-aigang camp (·R°ê·R´ä°}Àç). He said that, by doing so, it effectively provided the opposition with a public-opinion basis. He thought Dr Chung had a hidden agenda in conducting his polls and that his surveys served non-academic purposes. According to the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), HKUPOP surveys of the Chief Executive's and his principal officials' popularity meet 13 of the 14 requirements of the code of ethics on surveying. WAPOR, whose members come from over fifty countries, is a member association of the International Social Science Council (ISSC).
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