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In collaboration with the HKTB, the office held a business breakfast briefing on Hong Kong to coincide with the International Tourism Exchange Berlin, the world's largest tourism convention.

The Berlin ETO co-organised with Invest Hong Kong and the Fujian Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation a business seminar in Zurich in April 2010 to promote Hong Kong and Fujian as the ideal regional partners for foreign investors.

The Berlin ETO also hosted a visit to Germany by the Secretary for Food and Health, Dr York Chow, in May 2010. Dr Chow visited a German clinic in Kötzting where he was briefed on how traditional Chinese medicine was applied clinically there. He went on to Hannover where he met Mrs Aygül Özkan, Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration in Lower Saxony. He also visited the Hannover Medical School and Hannover Clinical Trial Centre.

The office hosted another visit to

to Germany by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, in June 2010. Mr Yau attended the C40 workshop entitled 'Strategies for Highly Efficient Cities' in Berlin and co-hosted a dinner with the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Mr Klaus Wowereit under the heading 'Berlin meets Hong Kong' for the C40 Workshop participants. During his five-day visit, Mr Yau met top federal and state officials in the environmental field, who included the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Ms Ursula Heinen-Esser. He also visited a number of 'green' buildings and technology sites in Germany.

To mark the 13th anniversary of the establishment of the HKSAR, the Berlin ETO organised a reception-cum-exhibition on Hong Kong in the Swiss capital, Bern, on July 1, 2010.

The Berlin ETO sponsored the dragon boat race, a popular event in the three-day Zurich Festival 2010 held every three years in Zurich, attracting over two million visitors.

Other events which the Berlin ETO hosted or helped arrange during the year included:

a signing ceremony marking Germany as the partner country of the Business of Design Week 2011 in Hong Kong;

• a luncheon talk in Geneva by Ms Teresa Cheng, Senior Counsel and Vice-chairperson of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, on Hong Kong as an effective arbitration centre;

a luncheon to promote Hong Kong's higher education system, in particular, the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme.

In addition, the Berlin ETO sponsored two episodes of Window Hong Kong, produced by a Berlin-based television station, which updated the viewers on the latest developments in Hong Kong and the city's promotional activities in Germany.