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Source: Assainir, relancer et développer ensemble : les orientations du 18e gouvernement

Source: Assainir, relancer et développer ensemble : les orientations du 18e gouvernement

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says her recent Saudi Arabia visit was fruitful and she is planning more duty visits for next year to promote Hong Kong’s business, trade and professional services.

Speaking to the media before today’s Executive Council meeting, she said she has conducted all of her visits abroad for this year.

She will conduct a duty visit to Beijing later this month.

Mrs Lam added she was warmly welcomed to Saudi Arabia and met King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and several officials.

She said she attaches great importance to Hong Kong’s external affairs, and conducting overseas visits can enhance the city’s international status and expand business opportunities.

Source: Assainir, relancer et développer ensemble : les orientations du 18e gouvernement

Chief Executive Carrie Lam respects an arrangement by the Legislative Council President to amend LegCo’s Rules of Procedure.

Making the statement to the media before today’s Executive Council meeting, she said Andrew Leung’s decision is reasonable.

Mr Leung decided all proposals from different camps will be combined into a single debate to finalise rule changes before Christmas.

Mrs Lam said she appreciates that he took a well-balanced approach to accept amendments by the pro-democracy camp, while formulating the arrangement based on Basic Law Article 75.

“We hope that things in the Legislative Council will be brought back to normal as soon as possible,” she said.

Mrs Lam urged legislators to respect Mr Leung’s decision.

When asked about the timing of the upcoming March 11 LegCo by-election, Mrs Lam said the Electoral Affairs Commission’s decision has already been gazetted.

Source: Assainir, relancer et développer ensemble : les orientations du 18e gouvernement

Source: Assainir, relancer et développer ensemble : les orientations du 18e gouvernement

The Task Force on Land Supply will study public feedback on whether to use fringe areas of country parks as a land supply option.

The task force discussed the issue at its fifth meeting today.

Chairman Stanley Wong said the task force noted country parks are invaluable assets of Hong Kong and any development must be done with caution.

“We had about 13 million visitors frequenting the various country parks, the 24 different country parks in Hong Kong, conducting a variety of different activities

“Other than the statutory process that we have to overcome in terms of environmental impact assessment, in terms of going through the Country & Marine Parks Board as well as going through the land use amendments at the Town Planning Board, we do believe that there is a certain threshold that we must uphold before we can proceed to consider utilising the fringe of the country parks.

“And this will include considering whether there are better alternatives in terms of using that particular piece of country park and at the same time is there any mitigation or compensation that we can do in terms of the impact on the ecology.

“So with these in mind, we will leave it to the public engagement and see how the community will perhaps support, or otherwise, conducting further studies if we are going to move this particular option forward,” Mr Wong added.