CE meets Governor of Liaoning Province (with photo)

     The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, met the Governor of Liaoning Province, Mr Tang Yijun, at the Chief Executive's Office this afternoon (November 28).
      
     Welcoming Mr Tang's first visit to Hong Kong in his capacity as the Governor of Liaoning Province, Mrs Lam said she was pleased to meet with him again following their meeting in September last year when he was the Deputy Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee. She also congratulated him on the successful hosting of the economic and trade promotion event between Liaoning and Hong Kong today.
      
     Mrs Lam said that Liaoning and Hong Kong have close economic and trade ties and Hong Kong has been the largest source of external investment in Liaoning over the years. She added that the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region set up the Liaoning Liaison Unit (LNLU) at the end of 2014 to further strengthen co-operation between the two places in areas including economic and trade affairs, culture and arts as well as youth exchanges, and expressed the hope that Mr Tang will continue the support for the work of the LNLU to promote co-operation between Liaoning and Hong Kong. She pointed out that Hong Kong is a premier international financial centre and ranks top in the world in terms of initial public offering funds raised so far this year and that Hong Kong has a well-developed and internationally-aligned professional services sector. With the further opening up of Liaoning Province, she said she welcomes Liaoning enterprises to make use of Hong Kong as the platform to "go global" and to jointly explore the international market.