SCST meets Director of Palace Museum
The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, today (December 17) met with the Director of the Palace Museum, Dr Wang Xudong, and his delegation. Miss Law introduced to the delegation Hong Kong's latest developments in arts, culture and creative industries. They also explored opportunities for co-operation and exchanges with the Palace Museum in relevant sectors.
The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (CSTB) and the Palace Museum have maintained close exchanges in the arts, culture and creative industries. The Palace Museum has supported the work of the CSTB for many years and jointly organised several large-scale artefact exhibitions, including "The Forbidden City and The Palace of Versailles: China-France Cultural Encounters in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", which will be open to the public tomorrow and is supported by the Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund. On creative industries, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on "the Palace Museum Cultural and Creative Products Hong Kong Space" in June this year to promote collaboration in creative design between the two places.
Miss Law said that with support from the National 14th Five-Year Plan in developing Hong Kong into an East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchanges, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will actively integrate the city into the overall national development. Continuing to build on Chinese culture as a foundation, the Government leverages Hong Kong's unique position and advantages to contribute cultural content to the country's modernisation and promote cultural prosperity.
SCST meets Director of Palace Museum Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka
An Environmental Protection Department (EPD) delegation attended the International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply organised under the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative in Sri Lanka today (December 17), to share Hong Kong's water environment management technology and experience with Indian Ocean countries, including Sri Lanka (Symposium organising country),Comoros, Madagascar, the Maldives and Seychelles.
The Symposium is organised by the China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Centre for Water Technology, and is being held in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on December 16 and 17. Its objective is to promote exchanges and co-operation between China and Sri Lanka, as well as other B&R countries around the Indian Ocean, on water environment science and technology, with a view to strengthening the training of professionals, assisting in solving key water environment and public health issues, and driving sustainable water resources management.
Attendants of the Symposium are from the Sri Lankan Government, a number of national research organisations and tertiary institutes, including the Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka, the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS, as well as representatives from research organisations and tertiary institutes from China, Sri Lanka, Comoros, Coted'Ivoire, Madagascar, the Maldives, Seychelles and more.
At the Symposium, the EPD delegation conducted in-depth exchanges and experience sharing with the participating parties to jointly promote high-quality green development under the B&R Initiative, and delivered two thematic presentations to introduce Hong Kong's water quality management strategies and smart technology applications from a practical management and technological development perspective, including various technologies for source pollution control, sewage collection and treatment, real-time online water quality monitoring and three-dimensional water quality simulation. The delegation also visited the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka to learn about its latest green technology developments and had technical exchanges with local scientific researchers.
EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
