Career
Since March 2003, he has also served as the second vice chairman of the Chinese People"s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in charge of the affairs of the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong and Macau. Liao"s ancestors were from Huiyang, Guangdong. Born in Hong Kong, he is the son of Liao Chengzhi, and the grandson of Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning.
Liao was born in Hong Kong during his father"s time with the Eighth Route Army office in colony, but fled to back to China with family following the Japanese invasion in December 1941.
