廖承志是中共统战工作的元老,其一生与香港有着不可割舍的情缘。早在抗战刚开始不久的1938年初,中共南方局便对刚满30岁的廖承志委以重任:令其出任八路军驻港办事处负责人。在担任“八办”主任期间,廖承志致力于团结海外华侨和港澳同胞,积极支援祖国的抗战事业,并发挥了重要的作用。太平洋战争爆发后,他冒着生命危险组织营救驻港民主人士与文化人士的事迹为人们所钦佩。在此期间,他还与香港抗战报人共同奋斗, Liao Chengzhi is a veteran of the CCP’s work on united front and has an undying sentiment in his life with Hong Kong. As early as the beginning of the anti-Japanese war in early 1938, the South Bureau of the CPC took an important task for Liao Chengzhi, just 30 years old: to make it the head of the Eighth Route Army’s Hong Kong office. During his tenure as director of the “Bacheban ”, Liao Chengzhi devoted himself to unite with overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and actively supported the war cause of the motherland and played an important role. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he risked his life to organize admiration for the rescue of democrats and cultural figures in Hong Kong. During this period, he also struggled with Hong Kong’s anti-Japanese press,