Hong Kong – CE meets Secretary of CPC Jiangmen Municipal Committee (with photo)
CE meets Secretary of CPC Jiangmen Municipal Committee (with photo)
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The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, met the Secretary of the CPC Jiangmen Municipal Committee, Mr Chen Anming, today (August 1) to exchange views on deepening Hong Kong’s co-operation with Jiangmen. The Director of the Chief Executive’s Office, Ms Carol Yip, also attended the meeting.
Mr Lee welcomed Mr Chen’s visit to Hong Kong with his delegation. He said that Hong Kong proactively promotes and strengthens its co-operation with Jiangmen, as well as other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) to achieve complementarity and mutual benefits, contributing to the construction of an international first-class bay area for living, working and travelling.
Noting that Hong Kong has strong capabilities in scientific research while the advanced manufacturing of Jiangmen has been developing rapidly, Mr Lee said he looked forward to the continued deepening of collaboration among the industry, academia and research sectors, promoting the transformation of technological outcomes, and strengthening the linkage of innovation and technology between the two places.
Mr Lee said that he had led a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region delegation to visit three member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia last week, where he introduced Hong Kong’s unique advantages of enjoying the strong support of the motherland and being closely connected to the world under “one country, two systems” to local political and business communities, and encouraged ASEAN enterprises to explore the GBA market and expand their businesses in Hong Kong and other bay area cities by making good use of Hong Kong’s professional services and financing platform.
CE meets Secretary of CPC Fujian Provincial Committee (with photo)
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Mr Lee welcomed Mr Zhou and his delegation’s visit to Hong Kong. He said that the relationship between Fujian and Hong Kong has always been close, adding that Hong Kong has been the largest source of external direct investment in the province in recent years. Mr Lee said he was confident that with the gradual recovery of the global economy, the economic and trade co-operation between Hong Kong and Fujian will bring new impetus to the economic growth of both places.
Secretary for Health to lead delegation to visit Shanghai
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Secretary for Health to attend 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva
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Professor Lo will attend the 76th WHA on May 21 (Geneva time) as a member of the Chinese delegation. The theme of this year’s Assembly is “WHO at 75: Saving lives, driving health for all”. The key discussions will cover the review of the WHO’s work in health emergencies, including the International Health Regulations and strengthening WHO preparedness for and response to health emergencies. A wide range of strategies and global actions on areas such as universal health coverage, primary healthcare, traditional medicine, infection prevention and control, substandard and falsified medicines, non-communicable diseases and mental health will also be discussed at the Assembly.
Professor Lo will take the opportunity to exchange views on healthcare-related issues with senior officials of the WHO and other delegations.
The Director of Health, Dr Ronald Lam, will accompany Professor Lo to attend the WHA in Geneva. They will return to Hong Kong on May 24. During Professor Lo’s absence, the Under Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee, will be the Acting Secretary for Health.
Secretary for Health visits district health centre and express (with photos)
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Hong Kong – CE meets Secretary of CPC Fujian Provincial Committee (with photo)
The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, met the Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, Mr Zhou Zuyi, at Government House today (June 27) to exchange views on strengthening Hong Kong’s co-operation with Fujian. The Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing; the Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr Kevin Yeung; the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Erick Tsang Kwok-wai; and the Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin, also attended the meeting.
He wished the Fourth Plenary Session of the Hong Kong/Fujian Co-operation Conference to be held in Hong Kong tomorrow (June 28) a great success with fruitful achievements, bringing the co-operation and development of the two places to new heights.
Mr Lee pointed out that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has all along been fully leveraging Hong Kong’s role as a functional platform for the Belt and Road Initiative, and encouraging Hong Kong enterprises and its professional services sectors to expand their businesses in the Belt and Road countries and collaborate with Mainland enterprises in going global together. He noted that Hong Kong offers an enormous base of professionals well versed in international regulations, who could provide Fujian with legal advice and services in Belt and Road development projects and help enterprises understand international rules, so that they could effectively cope with relevant risks when investing in different countries or regions.
Mr Lee said that he looked forward to the continuous and pragmatic co-operation between Fujian and Hong Kong in such areas as innovation and technology, maritime and logistics, tourism and youth development, so the two places could better grasp the development opportunities arising from the National 14th Five-Year Plan and promote mutual benefits. The Fujian Liaison Unit of the HKSAR Government will continue to act as a bridge to promote exchanges and co-operation between the two places.
Hong Kong – Secretary for Health to lead delegation to visit Shanghai
The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, will lead a delegation to Shanghai today (June 8) for a three-day visit starting tomorrow (June 9) and participate in the China Organ Donation Day event organised by the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation. Professor Lo and the delegation will also visit the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission to continue strengthening the exchanges and co-operation of the two places in the healthcare area.
While in Shanghai, Professor Lo and the delegation will also visit Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University and Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine to get a better grasp of the operation of medical specialty centres there and the setting-up of smart hospitals. Moreover, they will visit a community health service centre and meet with Hong Kong people living in Shanghai.
Among the delegation are the Director of Cluster Services of the Hospital Authority (HA), Dr Simon Tang, and representatives of the Health Bureau, the Department of Health and the HA. Professor Lo will return to Hong Kong on June 11. During his absence, the Under Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee, will be the Acting Secretary for Health.Hong Kong – Secretary for Health to attend 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva
The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, will depart for Geneva, Switzerland, today (May 19) to attend the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO).Hong Kong – Secretary for Health visits district health centre and express (with photos)
The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, visited Kwai Tsing District Health Centre (DHC) at Kowloon Commerce Centre in Kwai Chung and Yau Tsim Mong DHC Express at Pioneer Centre in Prince Edward this afternoon (April 4) so as to get a better grasp of the operations of the DHC and DHC Express and how the centres are working to tie in with the way forward set out in the Primary Healthcare Blueprint.
Accompanied by the Commissioner for Primary Healthcare, Dr Pang Fei-chau, Professor Lo and the Under Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee, toured the two centres and received briefings by centre staff on primary healthcare services offered to citizens, including health promotion activities, health risk factors assessment, community rehabilitation support, and referral arrangement for members-in-need to receive follow-up services from district network healthcare professionals. Representatives of the operators of Kwai Tsing DHC and Yau Tsim Mong DHC Express, namely Vice-chairman of Kwai Tsing Safe Community and Healthy City Association Mr Ho Siu-ping, and the Chairman of the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon, Mr Lee Shing-kan, were present to introduce their respective centres.
Professor Lo pointed out that the Government positioned the DHCs and DHC Expresses as community resource hubs as stated in the Primary Healthcare Blueprint released last year. The DHCs and DHC Expresses are responsible for co-ordinating various healthcare professions and primary healthcare services in the district, promoting the concept of “family doctor for all” in collaboration with the private medical sector, as well as encouraging members of the public to establish a long-term doctor-patient relationship with their family doctor through a cross-professional public-private partnership model and targeted subsidies under the Chronic Disease Co-Care Pilot (CDCC) Scheme, such that the public can enjoy coherent and comprehensive healthcare services.
Anticipating the launch of the CDCC Scheme later this year, Kwai Tsing DHC has started to promote the concept of “family doctor for all” actively in the district, with a view to getting prepared for matching citizens with suitable family doctors in the coming future. The DHC delivers services based on the concept of lifelong preventive care, i.e. through various activities to help people understand that they should always manage their own health regardless of the stages of life they are going through, such as building a healthy lifestyle, receiving appropriate vaccinations at different ages, undergoing screening for chronic diseases, so that disease prevention can be conducted in the manner of early detection and intervention.
Moreover, as a district health resources centre, Yau Tsim Mong DHC Express has plenty of experience in collaborating with community clinics and pharmacies to provide more comprehensive and continuous care for citizens. The experience will serve as valuable reference for other DHCs and DHC Expresses in carrying out related work in future.
Dr Pang supplemented that as a key component of the community primary healthcare system, the DHCs and DHC Expresses will strengthen their role as a co-ordinator with focuses on district-based, family-centric services. That would include enhancing co-ordination of community healthcare services, supporting primary healthcare doctors in the mode of case manager, providing district healthcare services, establishing network among public and private healthcare services, and providing health preventive and social services.
Professor Lo said that the Government is committed to putting more resources in fostering primary healthcare in a bid to improve citizens’ health. He appealed to citizens to make good use of the services offered by the DHCs and jointly build a “Healthy Hong Kong”.Ads
