HKSAR should Respond to China's Modernization Drive: Think Tank

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HKSAR should Respond to China's Modernization Drive: Think Tank

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With a clear direction and exciting blueprint set forth at the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China last year, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region should respond to the new age of China's modernization drive.

Paul Yip, chairman of the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute, made the remarks at a news conference Monday when announcing the holding of a conference on May 9 to explore Hong Kong's past and future development directions on the backdrop of China's development.

Yip, who formerly headed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government's Central Policy Unit, said with the CPC's encouraging cultural restructuring and its expressed needs for keeping abreast of the latest developments of world culture at the 16th congress and with great changes taking place in the past two decades of reform and opening up, "the HKSAR, being a world city and a city closely related to China's modernization drive, we feel we should respond to this."

The conference, entitled "Hong Kong's Past, Hong Kong's Future: More than an Economic City", is sponsored by independent local think tanks in Hong Kong to bolster confidence of the people of Hong Kong on one hand and send out a positive message to the international community on Hong Kong's development in relation to China's development, on the other, he said.

Yip praised HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa's latest policy address delivered on Jan. 8, which stressed the HKSAR's needs to interact with China's economic development and make full use of the opportunities of complementarity afforded by such development to propel the HKSAR's own economy.

But he said the HKSAR, at its vantage point, goes far beyond just the economic aspect to share with the mainland. "Actually its cultural aspect, its various systems in the society were also born on China's territory. There is a lot of experience worth sharing with the whole of China."

The conference will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, and all community sectors here are invited to participate, including government, politics, business, academic, labor, professional and social sectors, to foster a sense of cohesiveness through a deeper dialogue among Hong Kong people, he said.

"China's development will have tremendous impact not only on its own citizens but also worldwide," Yip said, stressing that in organizing the conference, he hopes to stimulate further debate about Hong Kong's past and future to help redefine the city's transformation.

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