Carrie Lam leaves Hong Kong West Kowloon Station for Guangzhou South Station on the Vibrant Express train after attending the opening ceremony for Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High Speed Rail (Hong Kong Section) held at the West Kowloon Station Saturday. [Provided to China Daily] HONG KONG -- Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam delivered her policy address on Wednesday, highlighting housing, economy, people's livelihood and young people's development. It was Lam's second policy address since she was sworn in on July 1, 2017. Lam said, titled Striving Ahead Rekindling Hope, this policy address comprehensively covers areas including good governance, housing and land, diversified economy, nurturing talent, improving people's livelihood, liveable city and connecting with young people. The chief executive proposed a total ban on electronic cigarettes for protecting people's health, particularly children and teenagers; actively promote primary healthcare services, and provide further resources for research and development to enhance HKSAR's research capability for supporting HKSAR's development into an international I&T center. In Lam's policy address, housing and land supply is treated as a stand-alone chapter, demonstrating HKSAR government's determination to solve the housing problem. Measures tackling it include developing land resources and increasing the ratio of public housing. Lam noted that in the first half of this year, the HKSAR economy grew strongly by 4 percent in real terms over the previous year, riding on the broadly positive global economic environment. The HKSAR government will act proactively, strengthen its roles in serving as facilitator and promoter, and seize the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development, with a view to generating new impetus for HKSAR's economy. Lam stressed that the policy address was built on the HKSAR's unique strengths under one country, two systems and combined with the current-term HKSAR government's unflagging efforts since assuming office on July 1, 2017. This policy address carries my unswerving determination in leading Hong Kong to strive forward. While there are many words, they serve just one purpose: rekindling hope for Hong Kong, she said. color-filled-wristbandplain black silicone wristbandscolored rubber bands for braceletssilicone wristband usb flash driveblank wristbandbusiness silicone wristbandsfuck cancer bracelet
President Xi Jinping meets with a delegation led by Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary general of Komeito, LDP's ruling coalition partner, in Beijing, Dec 28, 2017. Representatives of the Communist Party of China and Japan's ruling coalition, formed by the LDP and Komeito, met in East China's Fujian province from Dec 25 to 26 to convene the seventh meeting of the China-Japan ruling party exchange mechanism. [Photo/Xinhua] President Xi Jinping has urged Beijing and Tokyo to boost exchanges among their ruling parties, deepen communication and cooperation and play a leading role in improving ties. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, called for the exchanges while meeting on Thursday in Beijing with visiting senior members of Japan's ruling coalition, formed by the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner Komeito party. Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democrats, and Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary-general of Komeito, led the Japanese delegation. They were in China attending the seventh meeting of the China-Japan ruling parties exchange in Fujian province on Monday and Tuesday. The meeting was established in 2006. Xi spoke highly of its role in promoting ties. Xi also praised the two visiting secretary generals' long-term dedication to boosting exchanges among ruling parties of the two countries. Nikai and Inoue voiced the Japanese ruling parties' readiness to reinforce cooperation with the CPC and make greater contributions to advancing China-Japan ties. Song Tao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said the meeting on Thursday in Beijing shows the great importance Xi has attached to China-Japan ties as well as to exchanges among the ruling parties. The recent seventh meeting of the China-Japan exchange mechanism was the largest of its kind and yielded fruitful outcomes, said Song, the CPC's senior official in charge of party-to-party exchanges. It fully tapped the ruling parties' role in offering political navigation, Song said. According to Song, the ruling parties' meeting made in-depth exchanges of views on topics such as safeguarding the political basis for the bilateral ties, properly managing and controlling differences, improving pragmatic cooperation as well as advancing cooperation regarding the Belt and Road Initiative. Song said Japan's ruling parties are encouraged to work with China to consistently strengthen political mutual trust, expand exchanges and cooperation and translate consensus reached by leaders of the two countries into actions to ensure a steady improvement in the relationship, Song added.
