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CHAMBER IN ACTION                                         September 2003 Issue

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Chamber Signs MOU with Chilean Chambers

ciabox.gif (20790 bytes)Octavio Errazuriz (left), Chairman, Asia Pacific Chamber of Commerce, and Felipe Lira Ibanez (right), Vice Chairman, National Chamber of Commerce Services and Tourism of Chile, called on the Chamber on July 24 and were received by Chamber CEO Dr Eden Woon. The visitors were interested in strengthening business ties between South America and Asia, and to that end, the Chamber signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the two Chilean chambers.


Americas

Hal Falls, Director, Asian-Pacific Trade Office of the State of Arizona, called on the Chamber on August 7 and met with Dr WK Chan, Senior Director of the Chamber. Mr Falls exchanged ideas with Dr Chan on how Arizona could increase its presence in China through Hong Kong.


Europe

Amelia Yeo, Director, Northern Ireland Trade Development Centre, met with Eva Chow, Director of the Chamber's International Business Division, on July 22, to prepare for the centre's annual trade mission to Hong Kong in November.

ciarokas.jpg (9157 bytes)Michalis Rokas, First Secretary, Trade and Economic Affairs of the European Union, Office of the European Commission in Hong Kong, met with Dr WK Chan, Senior Director of the Chamber, on August 6 to explain the EU's position on trade facilitation at the WTO meeting to be held in Cancun, Mexico, this September.


Asia/Africa

Leong Teng-chau, Centre Director (South China & Hong Kong) of International Enterprise Singapore, called on the Chamber on July 28 and met with Eva Chow, Director of the Chamber's International Business Division. Mr Leong introduced to the Chamber his successor, Wong Peng Yeong, who would be stationed in Guangzhou. Mr Leong was moving back to Singapore.

Satoshi Torigoe, Director and Representative of Kogoshima Prefectural Government, Japan, met with Eva Chow, Director of the Chamber's International Business Division, on July 28 to discuss their proposed business mission to Kogoshima in April 2004.

Badeji A Abikoye, Trade Commissioner and Chief Representative of Nigeria Trade Office in Shanghai, called on the Chamber on July 28 and met with Eva Chow, Director of the Chamber's International Business Division. Mr Abikoye was in Hong Kong to promote Nigeria's trade office in Shanghai.


China

cialiqunshan.jpg (10427 bytes)Li Quanshan, Director of Tianjin Commercial Committee, and Li Yong, Director of Tianjin Economic and Technology Development Zone, spoke at the Chamber's July 23 roundtable luncheon on emerging opportunities for Hong Kong's service providers in Tianjin under the CEPA agreement.


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Wang Zhaoyou
, Mayor of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, met with Chamber CEO Dr Eden Woon on July 30. Dr Woon said that Jiangxi Province enjoyed a good relationship with HKGCC and that the Chamber was looking forward to visiting Jiangxi next year.

ciayin.jpg (10380 bytes)Yin Hanning, Director, Hubei Foreign Trade and Economic Bureau, and Chairman of Hubei CCPIT, led a delegation to visit the Chamber on August 6, where they were welcomed by the Chamber's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan. During the meeting, both parties discussed how they could improve co-operation between Hubei and Hong Kong by capitalising on CEPA.

ciajiang.jpg (9230 bytes)Jiang Zhengyan, the Deputy General Secretary of Dalian, called on the Chamber on August 6, and was welcomed by the Chamber's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan. Dr Chan told the delegation about the Chamber's active support for CEPA over the past few years, and that Dalian and Hong Kong should seek closer economic co-operation under CEPA.

cianie.jpg (12231 bytes)Nie Yuchun, Vice Mayor of Wuhan, led a delegation to visit the Chamber on August 6 to seek the Chamber's support for a trade promotion fair to be held in Wuhan in September. The delegation was received by the Chamber's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan.

ciazhu.jpg (10563 bytes)Zhu Mingyang, Director of Wuxi City Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, called on the Chamber on August 7 and was welcomed by HKGCC's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan. Mr Zhu discussed possible co-operation opportunities between Hong Kong and Wuxi under CEPA.

ciacuijingbo.jpg (8411 bytes)Cui Jingbo, Executive Director General, Qingdao Municipal Overseas Investment Promotion Bureau, led a delegation to visit the Chamber on August 7 to discuss co-operation between the Chamber and the city. The visitors were welcomed by the Chamber's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan, who accepted Mr Cui's invitation for the Chamber to co-organise the Qingdao Investment Fair, which will be held in Hong Kong in September.

ciazheng.jpg (10188 bytes)Zheng Xinghua, Vice Secretary General, Yichang City, Sichuan Province, led a delegation to visit the Chamber on August 13. HKGCC's Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan welcomed the visitors and told Ms Zheng that the Chamber would organise a mission to Hubei next year to visit the Three Gorges Dam Project.


CEPA

Chamber Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan, and Assistant Economist Ruby Zhu, called on Deputy Secretary for Commerce and Industry Raymond Young on August 5 to discuss issues arising from the CEPA agreement.


Policy Issues

Representatives from Quality Brands Protection Committee of the China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment met with Chamber Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan on August 8 to discuss possible co-operation on brand protection in the Mainland.

Fong Ngai of the Home Affairs Bureau met with Chamber Senior Director for Business Policy Dr WK Chan on August 11 to discuss possible involvement of the Chamber in promotion of Hong Kong's creative industries.


Service Industries

The WTO Cancun Ministerial Meeting will be held this September. The HKCSI, the only accredited NGO from Hong Kong to attend the conference, will be represented by HKCSI Secretary General Dr WK Chan and Chamber Assistant Economist Ruby Zhu.

HKCSI Executive Committee members Tony Au and Jane Lee attended a brainstorming meeting convened by the Trade Development Council on August 8 to discuss the potential for exports of Hong Kong's education services.


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