The Greater Seattle region has very strong ties with both Hong Kong and China. Greater Seattle is an important gateway for US-China and US-Hong Kong trade. In 1994, China and Hong Kong were ranked the second and fifth largest exporter through the port of Seattle respectively.
Hong Kong spent a total of $1.115 billion on Washington state exports in 1994 making it the tenth largest buyer of Seattle's goods in the world. Also in 1994, Washington imported $1.106 billion worth of goods from Hong Kong.
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Experts meet on slope safety
The Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of the Civil Engineering Department has made significant inroads in the study and implementation of measures to reduce slope failures in Hong Kong.
And, according to the Slope Safety Technical Review Board (TRB) which is conducting its third meeting in the territory, Hong Kong faces challenges which are unique in the world.
The Board is also of the view that GEO and the wider geotechnical community have made "leading edge" contributions to the understanding of slope failure mechanisms, to the quality and cost-effectiveness of geotechnical construction, and to the reduction of landslide risk.
The Board, established following the Kwun Lung Lau slope failure of July 1994, advises the Government through GEO on technical aspects of slope safety in the territory. It has a continuing review responsibility for the on-going and planned GEO
programmes.
The Board believes that new advances, already being carried forward within GEO, will result in further progress in reducing risk of landslips. These are:
tightly integrated approaches to slope safety assessment;
improved risk-based slope management systems; and
more generic, prescriptive design and construction methods.
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