Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau met a delegation led by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration (GDMPA) General Director Jiang Xiaodong today, with both sides agreeing to further deepen collaboration in relevant areas. Prof Lo said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government expressed its sincere gratitude to the GDMPA for its staunch support for Hong Kong in the past, including the implementation of the initiatives of, among others, the measure of using Hong Kong registered drugs and medical devices used in Hong Kong public hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and streamlining of the approval procedures for Hong Kong registered traditional proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) for external use to be registered and sold in the Mainland. The Government and the GDMPA agreed at the meeting to further deepen collaboration on the regulation of Chinese medicines (CM), the formulation of Greater Bay Area Chinese medicine standards,
The Government announced that Chief Executive Carrie Lam has reappointed Henry Tang as Chairman of the Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority.
His appointment is for another two years starting October 1 and the notice was gazetted today.
Mrs Lam said the West Kowloon Cultural District has seen remarkable progress in the past two years, establishing itself as a new cultural landmark in the city.
She pointed out that in addition to the Xiqu Centre, Freespace and the Art Park, two world-class museums, the M+ Museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum, will open in the near future.
“I have every confidence that under Mr Tang’s capable leadership, the West Kowloon Cultural District will be playing a key part in Hong Kong’s development as a hub for arts and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world, a goal set out in the National 14th Five-Year Plan.”
The board is responsible for the planning, development, operation and maintenance of the West Kowloon Cultural District’s arts and cultural facilities and related facilities.
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