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The Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong this afternoon (April 11).
Accompanied by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Lawrence Lau, Mr Tsang toured the Science Centre where he was briefed on various research activities at the university.
After watching a presentation at the Centre for Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology, Mr Tsang was taken on a tour of an environmentally controlled greenhouse to see some improved crop lines such as high yield hybrid rice and salt and drought-tolerant soybean.
Mr Tsang also visited the Prince of Wales Hospital Campus where he learnt about the work at the Centre for Research into Circulating Fetal Nucleic Acids.
The centre's ultimate goal is to make safe prenatal diagnosis available to citizens around the world and to promote the development of expertise in molecular diagnostics in this region.
Mr Tsang toured the laboratory at the centre and held discussions with Prof Lau and other academics before departure.
Mr Tsang said at the end of the tour that the research projects he had seen today were very exciting ones. He congratulated the researchers on their achievements and hoped that they would continue with their good work and make even more valuable contributions not only to Hong Kong but to the world at large.
Ends/Friday, April 11, 2008
Issued at HKT 17:45
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