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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1978
INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT MISSION TO EUROPE
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DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INDUSTRY, MR. ROY PORTER, LEAVES FOR EUROPE THIS EVENING TO SEEK MORE OVERSEAS INVESTMENT AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUING EFFORT TO DIVERSIFY OUR INDUSTRIAL BASE.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRADE, INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT SAID THAT MR. PORTER WOULD GO FIRST TO LONDON TO ATTEND A CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES SEMINAR ON APRIL 26 AT WHICH THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, WOULD BE THE MAIN SPEAKER.
MR. PORTER WILL MEET BRITISH INDUSTRIALISTS AND HAVE TALKS WITH OFFICIALS AT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON.
HE WILL ALSO HOLD A SEMINAR AT THE UTRECHT EXHIBITION CENTRE IN HOLLAND. THE SEMINAR WILL COINCIDE WITH TECH-TRANSFER *78 THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER.
THE SEMINAR WILL FEATURE A 15-MINUTE COLOUR FILM PRODUCED BY THE TRADE, INDUSTRY AND CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT TO SHOW HONG KONG'S ATTRACTIONS AS A MANUFACTURING CENTRE. ALSO GIVING A TALK AT THE SEMINAR WILL BE DR. JOHN WRIGHT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY CENTRE.
FROM HOLLAND MR. PORTER WILL RETURN TO BRITAIN WHERE HE WILL PRESENT A SEMINAR IN BIRMINGHAM BEFORE RENEWING CONTACTS MADE ON PREVIOUS VISITS TO FACTORIES IN THE MIDLANDS.
THE DEPARTMENT'S SPOKESMAN SAID THAT AN INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT PROMOTION OFFICER OF THE INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION BRANCH, MR. CYRIL BERNARD, AND ASSISTANT TRADE OFFICER MR. EDMUND CHEUNG, ARE ALREADY IN EUROPE ORGANISING THIS LATEST SERIES OF SEMINARS.
AFTER THE UTRECHT AND BIRMINGHAM SEMINARS, THEY WILL SEPARATELY FOLLOW UP CONTACTS WITH MANUFACTURERS, MAINLY IN THE LIGHT AND MEDIUM HEAVY INDUSTRIES, BEFORE RETURNING TO HONG KONG.
THE DEPARTMENT'S PREVIOUS FULL-SCALE INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION MISSION TO EUROPE WAS IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN MR. PORTER AND MR. CHEUNG VISITED BRITAIN, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND.
ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THAT EARLIER MISSION WAS THE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR POWDER METALLURGY PLANT WHICH IS BEING SET UP IN YAU TONG.
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