358 Communications, the Media and Information Technology
He also attended working breakfast meetings, hosted by The Heritage. Foundation and The Business Roundtable.
Early in 2011, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Toronto (Toronto ETO) together with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Investment Industry Association of Canada, and Supply Chain and Logistics Association Canada hosted a luncheon at which the Chinese Ambassador to Canada, Mr Zhang Junsai, spoke on 'The New Global Economic Order and the Tri-Partnership of Canada, China and its Hong Kong Gateway'.
In July, during his eastern Canada visit, the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, highlighted Hong Kong's strategic role in China's 12th Five-Year Plan in his presentations to the business community in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, as well as at his meeting with the Canadian Finance Minister, Mr Jim Flaherty.
In its other business promotional events, which included workshops jointly organised with the HKTDC, Toronto ETO highlighted the 'Hong Kong advantage' in China's ongoing global business expansion.
To ride on the success of the award-winning Hong Kong film A Simple Life, the Toronto ETO introduced the film's director Ms Ann Hui and scriptwriter Mr Roger Lee to the Toronto media. Toronto ETO also lent its support to the screening of films. directed by Hong Kong's younger generation of directors. These films included Mr Clement Sze-kit Cheng's Merry Go Round, and Mr Derek Tsang's Lover's Discourse.
With the support of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum in Hong Kong, the 'Centenary of 1911 Revolution' exhibition was staged at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto and two Toronto universities.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution, Ms Maria Tam of the Basic Law Promotion Steering Committee and several scholars from the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Macao spoke on Hong Kong's constitutional reform, universal suffrage, and Hong Kong's political aspirations at a symposium at the University of Toronto, while the university's Canada-Hong Kong Library launched its 'Hong Kong Handover' Online Resource, a digitised collection of over 15 000 pages of academic papers, government documents, news clippings and photographs on the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty in 1997. A 'Hong Kong Cup' Basic Law slogan writing competition, held in April, attracted more than 2 000 high school participants in Toronto.
The Chief Executive, Mr Donald Tsang, visited New York and Boston in early November 2011. While there, he met government and business leaders at a breakfast meeting hosted by the New York Stock Exchange. Mr Tsang also addressed a reception at the Council of Foreign Relations, highlighting the unique role Hong Kong plays as a premier gateway to China. In Boston, Mr Tsang addressed the John F Kennedy Jr Forum at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, on Hong Kong's post-1997 development.
In September, the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, visited New York and Chicago, where he met leading members of the cities' financial institutions and the
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