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June 2004 Issue More Events >> 
 Q & A
Hassan
Attou, Director of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industries in Morocco, led
a delegation to the Chamber on April 16. The visitors were met by Eva Chow, Director,
International Business, who briefed them on the latest economic developments in Hong Kong. Dr Shahzad Qaiser, Member Directing Staff, Pakistan, and his delegation of senior Pakistani civil servants, called on the Chamber on April 21. Dr Eden Woon, Chamber CEO, briefed the visitors on the political and economic developments in Hong Kong.
Ma
Yinfang, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Municipal People's Government Foreign Economic
Relations & Trade Commission, Shanghai Foreign Investment Commission, led a delegation
to the Chamber on April 21 to discuss cooperation work for the "Shanghai Modern
Services Expo," which took place in Hong Kong on May 20-21. The
Hong Kong-Mainland Joint Business Liaison Committee Annual General Meeting took
place on April 22. Chamber Vice Chairman
Anthony Wu and CEO Dr Eden Woon, representing the Chamber, suggested that the committee
continue to focus on CEPA implementation. CCPIT
Chairman Wan Jifei and chairmen of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese
Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong and the Federation of Hong Kong Industries also
joined the meeting.
Yang
Baosheng, Vice Chairman of the Department of Commerce of Hubei Province, led a
delegation to the Chamber on May 12 to discuss the "2004 Hubei Hong Kong Economic
Cooperation Symposium," which will be held in Hong Kong on June 20-25. Mr Yang said
the Governor of Hubei Province, Luo Qingquan, will attend the fair. Ye
Zhanghe, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Commerce of Hainan
Province, called on the Chamber on May 13. Chamber
CEO Dr Eden Woon received the delegation and accepted their invitation for HKGCC to
co-organize the Hainan (Hong Kong) Trade and Economic Cooperation Symposium in
mid-November.
Juris
Kanels, Director, Latvian Investment and Development Agency, led a delegation to
visit the Chamber on April 17. David O'Rear, the Chamber's Chief Economist, briefed the
visitors on the latest developments in Hong Kong. Members
also attended the meeting to explore further business opportunities with their Latvian
counterparts. Robert
Mathavious, CEO, Financial Services Commission and Lorna Smith, Executive
Director of the International Finance Center, British Virgin Islands, called on the
Chamber on May 12 to discuss the possibility of setting up a BVI trade office in Hong
Kong.
The Chamber Business Policy Division contributes to the formulation of the Chamber's input into constitutional development. The Chamber was a supporting organisation of the Conference on "Lessons to Learn: Governing Hong Kong" organised by three local think tanks (HKPRI, Civic Exchange and Synergynet). Chamber Vice Chairman Dr Lily Chiang was a speaker at the conference. Anthony Nightingale, Chairman, HKGCC, chaired the first meeting of the subgroup on business facilitation of the Economic and Employment Council on April 30. The subgroup takes on the Helping Business Programme previously overseen by the government's Business Advisory Group.
Dr
Lily Chiang, Vice Chairman, HKGCC, represented the Chamber at the launch of the
Business Guide to Sustainable Development produced by the Business Council for the
Environment on 23 April.
The
Hong Kong Awards for Services organising committee met on April 20 with members
of the Trade and Industry Department. At the meeting members agreed that the awards should
be suspended for a year in preparation for a merger with the Hong Kong Awards for Industry
the following year.
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