The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, today (December 17) met with the Director of the Palace Museum, Dr Wang Xudong, and his delegation. Miss Law introduced to the delegation Hong Kong's latest developments in arts, culture and creative industries. They also explored opportunities for co-operation and exchanges with the Palace Museum in relevant sectors.
The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (CSTB) and the Palace Museum have maintained close exchanges in the arts, culture and creative industries. The Palace Museum has supported the work of the CSTB for many years and jointly organised several large-scale artefact exhibitions, including "The Forbidden City and The Palace of Versailles: China-France Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", which will be open to the public tomorrow and is supported by the Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund. On creative industries, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on "the Palace Museum Cultural and Creative Products Hong Kong Space" in June this year to promote collaboration in creative design between the two places.
Miss Law said that with support from the National 14th Five-Year Plan in developing Hong Kong into an East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchanges, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will actively integrate the city into the overall national development. Continuing to build on Chinese culture as a foundation, the Government leverages Hong Kong's unique position and advantages to contribute cultural content to the country's modernisation and promote cultural prosperity.
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