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Telephone

01-623 5320

01-623 5324

會協商工头中答歪

THE HONG KONG ASSOCIATION

(A company limited by guarantee, registered in England, No. 703170)

AIMS AND ACTIVITIES

Registered Office

REGIS HOUSE,

43-46 KING WILLIAM STREET,

LONDON E.C.4R 9BE.

The Association was formed in order to provide a genuinely

representative body composed of companies and individuals in both Hong Kong and the United Kingdom to help further the interests of Hong Kong in this

country.

Four senior Hong Kong businessmen representing the territory's banking and commercial interests are co-opted to the Committee, thus providing a

close link with London.

The rapid growth of Hong Kong's industry and commerce frequently gives rise to problems, to the solution of which the Association can make an important contribution by virtue of its composition and constitution.

It is the present policy of the Association to confine its activities to the broader aspects of such problems, especially those involving contacts in the Department of Trade and Industry, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Parliament itself. An information sheet entitled "Dateline Hong Kong" is distributed to members monthly by special arrangement with the Hong Kong

Government Office in London.

Periodically the Association arranges informal dinners at the House of Commons with Conservative and Labour MPs who are members of the UK-Hong Kong Parliamentary Group. These occasions afford an opportunity for a frank

In exchange of views and the correction of possible misconceptions. addition, two lunch time briefing sessions are held during the year for a

wider audience.

Although the Association office handles numerous trade enquiries it does not intervene in such day to day trade promotional activities as are already handled most capably by the HKTDC in London, with which, together with the Hong Kong Government Office, we maintain close and continuous

contact.

On the export side, the Association is strongly represented on the Hong Kong Trade Advisory Group of the British Overseas Trade Board.

The Hong Kong Association was incorporated on 13 September 1961 under

Company limited hu Guarantee and not having a

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