CE meets Kaohsiung City Mayor (with photos)

     The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, met with the visiting Kaohsiung City Mayor, Mr Han Kuo-yu, this morning (March 22) and hosted a lunch for him at Government House. The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip, and the Acting Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Dr Bernard Chan, were also present.
 
     Mrs Lam welcomed Mr Han's first trip to Hong Kong after his assumption of office to attend an agricultural product promotion event in the afternoon and conduct other visits. She pointed out that Hong Kong and Taiwan have frequent trade, economic and people-to-people exchanges and that the two places are major trading partners and sources of tourists for each other. Hong Kong is an international financial, trade, transportation and logistics centre where many Taiwanese enterprises have established a presence, covering financial services, innovation and technology, catering and consumer products, to leverage Hong Kong's advantages to open up the Mainland and overseas markets. Mrs Lam said she welcomes more high-quality agricultural and fisheries products to be exported from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong, or re-exported via Hong Kong to other places in the future. She also expressed the hope that Mr Han's visit will promote further exchanges between Hong Kong and Kaohsiung, presenting more room for co-operation.