Page 3842 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 19 September 2017
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I also met with the Smart City Consortium and toured its facility. The Smart City Consortium is a professional organisation in Hong Kong established to promote the building of smart city infrastructure. It is a platform that pulls experts and stakeholders together to provide professional advice to government for the formulation of smart city policies and measures. The meeting and the tour allowed us to learn about collaboration efforts among the various industry sectors to guide the development of Hong Kong as a smart city and to uncover the potential to collaborate with Hong Kong on some smart city research projects.
As part of the Hong Kong visit I also met with Consul-General Ms Michaela Browning and Deputy Consul-General Mr Ken Gordon of the Australian Consulate-General in Hong Kong. This was an opportunity to brief and update the consul-general on the ACT government’s high level priorities, and on key ACT developments and projects, and to be briefed on the work of the consulate-general in facilitating trade and investment links between Australia and Hong Kong.
In conclusion, this delegation is consistent with previous delegations in aiming to establish strong and enduring connections between Canberra and international partners, continuing the advancement of priorities and objectives detailed in Canberra’s international engagement strategy which I launched a year ago, in September 2016. I would like to acknowledge the support provided to the delegation by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Austrade. I acknowledge in particular Mr Dan Tebbutt, Senior Trade Commissioner for Austrade in Beijing; Ms Michaela Browning, the Consul-General in Hong Kong; Mr Ken Gordon, the Deputy Consul-General in Hong Kong; and Mr Sam Guthrie, the Senior Trade Commissioner for Austrade in Hong Kong.
I also wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for the courtesy and hospitality extended to the delegation in Hong Kong by Mr Nicholas Yang, the Secretary for Innovation and Technology in Hong Kong; Mr Lu Jianzhong, the President of China Communications Construction Company International Holdings; Mr Eric Yeung, President of the Smart City Consortium; Mr James Doolan, the Regional Vice-President of Hotel Development in the Asia-Pacific for Marriott International Inc; and Mr Justin Kuok, Manager of Investment Management and Business Development for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. I present the following paper:
Tourism Ministers meeting in Beijing and Hong Kong business delegation—August 2017—Ministerial statement, 19 September 2017.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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