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HK-Guangdong Environmental Protection Liaison Group meets

The Hong Kong - Guangdong Environmental Protection Liaison Group (EPLG) successfully held its seventh meeting in Hong Kong this week. The meeting was co- chaired by the Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Mr Bowen Leung, and the Director of Environmental Protection Bureau of Guangdong Province, Mr Wang Yinkun. Both sides agreed to further enhance their co-operation on environmental issues of mutual concern.

The EPLG noted and endorsed the report made by its Technical Sub-Group (TSG) on the work programme carried out in 1996, which includes:

the progress in the exchange of information on priority projects,

the workshop on thermal power station pollution control,

the Stage I Phase 1 report on the Mirs Bay study, and

progress of the Deep Bay Water Quality Regional Control Strategy study.

The meeting also discussed nine other topics of mutual interest concerning:

the Ramsar site in Hong Kong,

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the marine parks and reserves,

Chinese White Dolphins,

transboundary shipment of waste.

Hong Kong's Territorial Development Strategy Review, and environmental planning in Guangdong.

The EPLG endorsed the work programme for 1997 which includes:

a workshop on environmental impact assessment to be held in mid-1997

in Guangdong Province,

Stage 2 of the exchange of information on priority projects,

Stage I Phase 2 of the Mirs Bay study,

continuation of the Deep Bay Water Quality Regional Control Strategy Study,

further exchanges of air and water quality monitoring data in relation to the Deep Bay joint monitoring study carried out previously, and

the setting up of study groups under the Technical Sub-Group to study the conservation and protection of the Chinese White Dolphins and the air quality in the Pearl River Delta Region.

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