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We need to promote Sichuan a lot!On the 8th of last month, at the dinner reception for the joint media delegation from the Chamber of Commerce of Foreign Consulates in Hong Kong, Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, did not forget to use the card of friendship when he clinked glasses with reporters.
Peng Qinghua served as the deputy director and director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office for nine years. It can be said that he is well-versed in Hong Kong, whether he was promoted to the Secretary of the Guangxi Provincial Party Committee in 2012, or he took charge of Sichuan after the National People's Congress and the CPPCC annual meeting this year.Province, Peng Qinghua first used the resources of Hong Kong to encourage more Hong Kong officials, Hong Kong businessmen, and Hong Kong people to go to the local area.
On the other hand, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also has a strong affection for Sichuan.After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, donations from the Hong Kong government and Hong Kong people funded more than 190 projects in Sichuan. Carrie Lam, who was in charge of specific work as the director of the Development Bureau, visited the disaster area many times with volunteers and engineers.
Carrie Lam later became Chief Secretary for Administration, and she is still very concerned about the post-disaster reconstruction in Wenchuan.In May 2016, she went to Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan and took the initiative to hug a panda. Later, when she had tea with the media executives accompanying the group in Sichuan, she revealed her intention to run for the chief executive.
Tonight, as chief executive, she led more than 90 people to visit Sichuan.
Peng Qinghua repeats his old skills
In addition to attending the 10th anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake this weekend, Carrie Lam will also set up a Sichuan-Hong Kong high-level cooperation platform with Peng Qinghua, and will witness the Sichuan-Hong Kong design of the Tianfu New District at the Sichuan-Hong Kong Investment and Trade Cooperation ConferenceThe signing ceremony of the park and other projects.
Peng Qinghua can be said to be repeating the old tricks.When he became the top leader in Guangxi, he invited Leung Chun-ying, the then chief executive of Hong Kong, to lead an economic and trade delegation to visit Guangxi for three days.On the one hand, he never responded to Leung Chun-ying's performance in administration, and on the other hand, he emphasized that the relationship between Guangxi and Hong Kong is particularly good.
The following year he led a delegation to visit Hong Kong.Stay at the hotel in the morning.Intensive visits began at 3:00 p.m., with the richest man Li Ka-shing, Cheng Ka-shun of New World Development, Sugar King Kuok Hok-nian, Henderson Lee Shau Kee, Bank of East Asia Li Guobao, Goldlion Tsang Hin-chi and many other business leaders.
Of course, he also visited former chief executives Tung Chee-hwa and Leung Chun-ying, and returned to the Hong Kong Liaison Office to meet his successor Zhang Xiaoming.In short, he tried his best to use his personal connections in Hong Kong to attract large-scale investment.
Peng Qinghua spent only five years in Guangxi, doubling the GDP of Guangxi from RMB 1 trillion (S$210.5 billion) to RMB 2 trillion.Under the Belt and Road Initiative, opportunities for the China-Singapore southbound channel from the mainland to Singapore will be created, so that the southbound channel will take shape and form interconnection.
At the end of last month, when Peng Qinghua met with the Hong Kong Poverty Alleviation Group led by Lin Wu, the former deputy director of the China Federation, he emphasized that the development of Sichuan should further expand opening up and break the basin consciousness. Cooperation with Hong Kong is very important.Communicate closely.
Carrie Lam led a delegation of more than 90 people to visit Sichuan this time, including many business people and Hong Kong government officials. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to cooperation with Sichuan.
After the four-day visit to Sichuan, she will immediately transfer to Bangkok, Thailand, to attend the annual meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and then return to the mainland to visit Huizhou and Guangzhou.
Compared with the itinerary in Sichuan, it may be more important for Carrie Lam to talk about the Greater Bay Area with Guangdong Party Secretary Li Xi in Guangzhou.The development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area may be announced at the end of this month or early next month. The Hong Kong government has already established the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Development Office and quietly started related work.
