Chief Executive John Lee will lead mission to Middle East
發佈日期: 2025-05-06 19:30
TVB News
Chief Executive John Lee will lead his second delegation to the Middle East this weekend, with mainland entrepreneurs joining the tour for the first time.
This as the CE also noted the 1.1 million tourists that visited Hong Kong over the Labour Day Golden Week, hailing the occasion as an economic boost to the city.
Making his second visit to the Middle East as the city's leader since 2023, Chief Executive John Lee will lead a delegation to Qatar and Kuwait on Saturday.
In the delegation of government officials, I'm also making an unprecedented move.
I will lead business leaders representing Hong Kong as well as mainland business representatives.
There are two reasons why I'm doing that.
First of all, I want Hong Kong to play its role as a superconnector, so we can promote communications among Hong Kong, the mainland and overseas countries.
The delegation will include 30 local entrepreneurs and 20 mainland companies from the manufacturing and innovative sectors in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.
This as Lee revealed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will soon set up a technology enterprise hotline.
The service aims to provide legal advice and relevant information to specialist technology and biotech enterprises that wish to develop their business in the city.
Meanwhile, the CE hailed the economic boost generated by the 1.1 million tourists that visited the city during the Labour Day Golden Week.
The tourist figure for this holiday period increased by 22 percent year-on-year, with the number of mainland visitors rising to 920,000.
Lee spoke about the issue of passengers being stuck in the Lok Ma Chau MTR Station as a result of QR code ticket problems, after internet services there became overwhelmed by a surge in tourists.
The CE has instructed relevant departments to conduct a review of the situation.
Lee also commented on the fact that certain tourists who opted to sleep in fast food restaurants instead of hotels over the holiday period, and stressed all kinds of visitors must be made to feel welcome.
If we give tourists the impression that we only welcome a particular type of tourist, then this will undermine our image, in a sense, that we welcome high-end as well as the not-so-high-end tourists.
