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An Agreement on Trade in Services is signed under the framework of the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement to basically achieve liberalisation of trade in services between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
The government says it has agreed with the MTR Corporation to adjust completion of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link from the end of 2017 to the third quarter of 2018, including a six-month contingency period, and to revise the cost estimate from $65 billion to $84.42 billion, which is $0.88 billion less than the corporation's proposal in June.
Hong Kong experiences its warmest November since records began in 1884, with a mean temperature of 24 degrees, 2.2 degrees above the November normal of 21.8 degrees.
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The government launches Appreciate Hong Kong, a five-month public participation campaign with themes reflecting the meanings of 'appreciate': appreciation, gratitude, understanding and adding value.
'Reminiscences of Hong Kong by the Brush, an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of sinologist Professor Jao Tsung-l, opens at the Hong Kong Central Library. The Chief Executive officiates at the inauguration ceremony of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong at Government House.
Champion of social justice and veteran politician Dr Elsie Tu dies at the age of 102. Hong Kong inaugurates the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Hong Kong Mediation Centre Joint Mediation Centre to provide a platform for resolving commercial disputes between Chinese and foreign companies as cross- boundary trade and other areas of co-operation are expected to rise amid various national-level development plans, including the Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
The Competition Ordinance takes full effect to prohibit anti-competitive behaviour. An International Monetary Fund staff mission to Hong Kong hails the government's prudent fiscal management and robust financial regulatory regime.
The government publishes its Long Term Housing Strategy Annual Progress Report 2015. The updated total housing supply target for the 10 years from 2016-17 to 2025-26 is 460,000 flats, with the public-private split of 60:40 maintained. Accordingly, the public housing supply target is 280,000 flats, comprising 200,000 public rental housing flats and 80,000 subsidised sale flats, while the private housing supply target is 180,000 flats. The Commission on Poverty, chaired by the Chief Secretary for Administration, launches a six-month public consultation entitled 'Retirement Protection, Forging Ahead' to gauge public views on how to improve the retirement protection system. The first five government-subsidised single-deck electric buses start service as part of a two-year trial to improve roadside air quality. The government will subsidise a total of 36 electric buses.
The Chief Executive appoints the first chairman and seven non-executive directors of an independent Insurance Authority (IIA), pursuant to the enactment of the Insurance Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 2015, which provides for the formation of the IIA and a statutory licensing regime for insurance intermediaries to replace the existing self-regulatory system.
Hong Kong ends 2015 as its warmest year, with an annual mean temperature of 24.2 degrees, since records began in 1884.
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