KEVIN YEUNG MEETS MAINLAND OFFICIALS

Secretary for Culture, Sports & Tourism Kevin Yeung met leaders of Mainland cultural and tourism authorities who are visiting Hong Kong to join the 37th International Travel Expo which started today.

Mr Yeung exchanged views on enhancing collaboration between Hong Kong and the Mainland on cultural and tourism fronts with representatives from Hebei Province, Liaoning Province, Jiangxi Province, Hubei Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Inspector at Level 2 of the Department of Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan Affairs of the People's Republic of China’s Ministry of Culture & Tourism Cui Suxiang and Asia Tourism Exchange Center Director Zhang Dong were also present.

Mr Yeung said the country attaches great importance to the high-quality development of tourism, with the major direction of enhancing the country's economic structure, promoting Chinese culture and realising the principle of “shaping tourism with cultural activities and promoting culture through tourism” via tourism development.

“We look forward to joining hands with cultural and tourism authorities on the Mainland in taking forward the exchanges and collaboration, demonstrating our country's cultural soft power as well as the appeal of Chinese civilisation, and telling the good stories of China and Hong Kong.”

Hong Kong is positioned as an East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange under the National 14th Five-Year Plan. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government strives to strengthen cultural exchanges and co-operation with the Mainland and overseas bodies.

The Government has allocated resources to further collaborate with governments and cultural organisations on the Mainland and overseas, with a view to better promoting Chinese culture to the world.

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