Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
Upon the invitation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government, with the approval of the Central People’s Government, the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council invited the member of the publicity delegation, the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr Hou Jianguo, and the member of the publicity delegation, the Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs and the Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Rural Affairs, CPC, Mr Zhu Weidong, to visit Hong Kong to speak on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee). The HKSAR Government today (November 25) held the second seminar on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Central Government Offices.
The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, and the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office of the CPC Central Committee, the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council and the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Zhou Ji, delivered speeches at the seminar. Mr Hou and Mr Zhu gave presentations respectively, providing in-depth explanations of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee as well as the key contents and significance of the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development. The two members of the publicity delegation also responded to questions raised by participants. Mr Lee delivered the concluding remarks.
Mr Hou focused on introducing the strategic tasks and major measures during the 15th Five-Year period that would play a significant leading, driving, and supporting role in advancing Chinese modernisation. Combining these with Hong Kong’s situation, he particularly elaborated on the contents of the Recommendations for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan on achieving greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology; promoting high-standard opening up; promoting coordinated regional development; and other aspects. He said that upholding open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win outcomes is an inherent requirement of Chinese modernisation. The Recommendations for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan focus on promoting broader international economic flows, advancing reform and development through greater openness and sharing opportunities and achieving common development with the rest of the world, and making plans for promoting high-standard opening up. Hong Kong is an international financial, shipping, and trade centre. By better leveraging its role as a two-way opening bridge and fully strengthening its function as “super connector” and “super value-adder”, Hong Kong will certainly become a major channel and hub for attracting external resources, as well as a key platform for Mainland enterprises to go global, thereby playing a greater role in assisting the country’s high-level opening up. The strategic plans and major measures set out in the Recommendations for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan on promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong will surely guide and advance the implementation of “one country, two systems” in Hong Kong to open a new chapter, enabling Hong Kong to make greater contributions in the historical process of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realising the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.