Beijing’s point man on Hong Kong affairs has met a delegation led by HSBC Group CEO Georges Elhedery, marking his second meeting with the bank’s leadership in eight months.

But the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office did not reveal what was discussed in the meeting between its director, Xia Baolong, and Elhedery in Beijing on Thursday.

Xu Qifang, the executive deputy director of the office and veteran HSBC banker Peter Wong Tung-shun had also attended the meeting.

During his meeting with group chairman Mark Tucker in April, Xia called on HSBC to act as an “important bridge” in Sino-British relations and promote both the country and the city to the international community.

Acknowledging the HSBC Group’s “long-term optimism over China and Hong Kong” and its active participation in the city’s economic and social development, he also called on the conglomerate at the time to play to its strengths and be more active in helping cement its role as an international financial centre.