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STI to attend World Economic Forum in Switzerland

The Secretary for Trade and Industry, Miss Denise Yue, will depart for Davos, Switzerland tomorrow (Wednesday) night to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual meeting, an annual gathering of world leaders from business, government, academia, culture and the media.

Miss Yue will be accompanied by Chairman of Crosby Financial Holdings Limited, Mr Timothy Beardson; Chairman of Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Dr Victor Fung; Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited, Mr Raymond Kwok; Chairman of Fidelity International Limited, Mr Stuart Leckie; Director & Deputy Chief Executive of Hang Seng Bank Limited, Mr Roger Luk; Executive Chairman of Asia/Pacific Deutsche Bank AG, Mr Simon Murray, Chairman of Hongkong &Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Mr John Strickland; Chairman of Dah Sing Financial Holdings Limited, Mr David Wong; Deputy Chief Executive of Bank of China, Hong Kong/Macau Regional Office, Mr Zhang Hongyi; and Permanent Representative to World Trade Organisation, Mr Stuart Harbinson.

On Friday (January 31), Miss Yue will take part in a brainstorming on the Global Agenda during which she will meet small groups of chief executives for in- depth discussion on issues that are important to Hong Kong after 1997.

On Saturday (February 1), Miss Yue will attend two panel discussions. One panel discussion will focus on the challenges facing the World Trade Organisation following the Singapore Ministerial Meeting and the impact of regionalism and investment on multilateral trade agenda.Another discussion will be on "Beyond July 1997: the outlook for Hong Kong".

On the same day, Miss Yue will address a business lunch on "Hong Kong: Playing the China Card" to be attended by about 70 international business leaders.She will talk about the current and future situation in Hong Kong.

While in Davos, Miss Yue will attend two informal dinners hosted by the Hong Kong team on January 31 and February 2 and to meet with senior government officials, senior business leaders and academics from all over the world.

The World Economic Forum was established in Switzerland in 1971 as an independent, international, non-profit and non-partisan organisation to bring world leaders together in a global partnership.

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