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Algernon Yau to visit bay area cities

Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Algernon Yau will join a delegation this afternoon to visit Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan, the Government announced.   Organised by the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the aim of the trip is to help delegates keep abreast of the latest development of the Greater Bay Area for better integration into the nation’s overall development.   Mr Yau will return to Hong Kong on March 23. During his absence, Under Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Bernard Chan will be Acting Secretary. http://dlvr.it/Sl99gg

Land sale plan announced

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)   Secretary for Development Michael Wong announced the Government's 2021-22 Land Sale Programme today.   Fifteen residential sites are on the list. Four are on Hong Kong Island, one in Kowloon and 10 in the New Territories. They will provide about 6,000 units.   There will be three railway property development projects - two in Tung Chung and one in Tseung Kwan O Pak Shing Kok which can provide about 4,050 flats.   Meanwhile, the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) plans to take forward six projects, providing about 3,170 flats.   Mr Wong said: "Taking also into consideration the forecasted land supply from the projects of the MTR Corporation and the URA, as well as private development/redevelopment projects, the total potential private housing land supply in 2021-22 is estimated to have a capacity to produce about 16,500 flats."   He noted that the actual supply of private housing land will depend on various factors, including market conditions, the readiness for sale of government sites upon timely completion of relevant procedures and the implementation progress of railway property developments and the URA's projects.   For commercial land, there will be three sites put up for sale, which will yield about 478,600 sq m of gross floor area in total. Two of them are in Kai Tak and one is in Tung Chung.   Mr Wong said the Government will continue to provide a stable commercial land supply in order to sustain Hong Kong's economic development and competitiveness, regardless of any short-term market fluctuations.   "The Government will follow the established practice to announce in advance the quarterly land sale programme in order to provide transparency and certainty to the market. We may put up additional sites for sale in the quarters depending on the situation, so as to flexibly respond to changing market conditions," he added.
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