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First Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival marks a start today for over 200 promotion activities of Chinese medicine culture to be held in these three months

     The Acting Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee, and the Commissioner for Chinese Medicine Development, Dr Vincent Chung, officiated at the kick-off event for the first Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival today (December 7) to unveil over 200 promotional activities for Chinese medicine (CM) culture to be jointly held across Hong Kong by the Health Bureau (HHB) together with the CM sector and community partners from this December to February next year.
      
     The Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival is a new initiative put forward by the Chief Executive in his 2024 Policy Address. Partnering with local CM sector and various community organisations, the HHB promotes in diversified ways to pass on CM culture and knowledge to the general public. This kick-off event is the first major activity of the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival and is being held at the Central Market today and tomorrow (December 8).
      
     Dr Lee said, “CM is the treasure of Chinese culture. The CM in Hong Kong has been experiencing a steady development over the past two decades or so, with the application of pure traditional CM theories and methods for prevention and treatment of diseases being a distinctive advantage. To push ahead CM development on all front, riding on the two milestones of CM namely service commencement of the Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong (CMHHK) and release of the Chinese Medicine Development Blueprint at the end of next year, we have specifically organised the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival to enable citizens to get first-hand experience through diverse activities in various forms in these three months, thus enhancing their interest and understanding on wisdom and concepts of CM for fostering CM inheritance and development.”
      
     Supported by over 80 organisations from the CM sector and community partners, the first Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival features a splendid array of activities, including free consultation sessions, free health consultation, thematic talks as well as exchange forums and seminars for members of the public and various sectors to participate. A number of community organisations will also hold CM-related workshops and experiential activities, such as guided tours led by professional docents to explore herbal plants in the countryside where participants can learn about Chinese herbal medicine while enjoying the nature. To foster the cultural inheritance of CM, the Festival also has in place activities targeting students, such as CM identification workshops and CM planting activities, to cultivate the younger generation’s interest in traditional medicine.
      
      A number of exhibitions and interactive booths are being staged at the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival kick-off event at the Central Market today and tomorrow for general public to learn more about the CM culture in an interesting way, ranging from a CM constitution identification booth, a simulated CM clinic with CM tools and dress-up for photo-taking, to information panels on health maintenance during winter and the CMHHK model exhibition and games. CM thematic talks covering topics such as globalisation of CM, the role of CM in primary healthcare, CM and mental health, interesting science of CM as well as experience of free CM consultations in different regions are also arranged for members of the public and various sectors.
      
     Members of the public interested in joining activities of the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival may visit the dedicated website (www.hkcmfest.gov.hk/en) for activity details and ways of enrollment.
      
     Also attending the launching ceremony of the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Culture Festival today were Legislative Council members Dr David Lam and Mr Shiu Ka-fai; the Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Practice Subcommittee under the Chinese Medicine Development Committee (CMDC), Professor Chan Wing-kwong; the Chairman of the Chinese Medicines Industry Subcommittee under the CMDC, Mr Tommy Li; and the Commissioner for Primary Healthcare, Dr Pang Fei-chau. read more

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Remarks by STL at media session

     â€‹Following are the remarks by the Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Ms Mable Chan, at a media session after attending a radio programme today (December 7):
 
Reporter: How can upcoming railway transit systems integrate new technology and provide (services) for citizens? Given that upcoming railways will not adopt heavy rail systems, what is the advantage? Has the contractor been settled yet? And as the Kai Tak Sports Park will undergo a stress test of 12 000 people tomorrow, how confident is the Bureau towards dispersing people smoothly? Thank you.
 
Secretary for Transport and Logistics: For the second question about the commissioning of the Kai Tak Sports Park, my Bureau and the relevant departments will participate actively in the various stress tests. In fact, there will be one tomorrow, and that will involve a total number of 12 000 people. We will be participating in it. Apart from us, the various public transport operators, including MTR, various buses, and also taxis, will also be involved. We hope that through the various stress tests, we will step up our mobilisation, our preparation, and make ourselves better prepared for different scenarios, such that when the Sports Park is commissioned, we will have a better and holistic preparation to cater for different scenarios. It is, after all, a very significant milestone in Hong Kong’s tourism development. We will give our best in order to make this a success, and also to give the best service for our locals and also for our visitors.
 
     As far as the railway infrastructure is concerned, surely we are engaging and planning for a number of major projects. I think the infrastructure projects did provide a very good opportunity for Hong Kong’s local development as well as further development of our economy. We will work very hard and adopt a double innovation approach. That is, we will adopt innovation in technology as well as an innovative mindset in the policy and procedural framework in order to catch up with the time we have lost as well as to conduct the project expeditiously.
 
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the remarks.) read more

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