The Government Contacts
2.3
82
141.
The
Government, too, is heavily
figures speak for themselves.
involved.
The
In the first half of this
And
year, six Policy Branches and 38 Departments made a total
of 166 official visits to their Chinese counterparts.
the flow is in both directions. Over the same period,
130 groups involving almost 1,000 Chinese officials came to
Hong Kong.
142.
Policy Branches and Departments have developed an
extensive network of direct contacts with their Chinese
counterparts at the working level. Interface with Chinese
government agencies and their staff is an increasingly regular feature of their normal working day. For example,
Banking supervision: cooperation between the
People's Bank
and our
Monetary Authority
covers both supervision of institutions and
exchange of information.
Infrastructural planning:
cooperation started
concerns. But the
with shared environnantal
range of contacts has expanded to cover wider
planning issues.
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