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Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of Guangdong Provincial CPC committee welcomes Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, in the White Swan Hotel.

Huang Huahua, Governor of Guangdong Province, and Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, discussing the further cooperation in  Pan-PRD.

Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers move its seventh meeting to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, on November 4, focusing on the developments of the Pearl River Delta and Pan-PRD region.

The Council members have a fruitful discussion about the implementation of the Mainland/Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and the role of Hong Kong in Pan-Pearl River Delta economic developments.

It will help the advisers make more precise proposals for Hong Kong's development within the Greater Pearl River Delta, including strategies for the Hong Kong, Macao and the Pan Pearl River Delta Regions.

Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Guangdong Province emphasizes the interdependent relationship between Hong Kong and Guangdong, and pointed out that both sides have benefit a lot in the PPRD cooperation.

"It's the first time my council of international advisers meets outside Hong Kong," Tung Chee Hwa, Chief Executive of the HKSAR says, "Moving the meeting gave the international entrepreneurs that make up the council a first-hand taste of South China's fast-growing economy."

The delegates visited Guangzhou high-tech zone, Shenzhen and Dongguan after the meeting, and highly praised these years' fast development of Guangdong province.

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The establishment of the Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers (CECIA) was announced in the 1998 Policy Address. The CECIA advises the Chief Executive from an international perspective on strategic issues pertinent to the long-term development of Hong Kong. In particular, the Advisers are invited to advise on how global and regional trends might affect Hong Kong's development, how the international business community perceives Hong Kong's plans and programmes of activities, as well as what measures Hong Kong should take to enhance its role as a world-class commercial and financial centre and as a dynamic Special Administrative Region of China under the concept of "One Country, Two Systems".

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