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Speech by CS at the launch ceremony of SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC (with photos/video)
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​     Following is the speech by the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, at the launch ceremony of the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity – Race to Hong Kong ICC today (December 3):

​     I would like to say a few words in English, very briefly. I just want to pay tribute to Sun Hung Kai Properties for organising this very meaningful “Vertical Run for Charity”. Combining charity with sports and promoting good health is very important direction for everybody in Hong Kong and the whole community. ICC stands for not International Commerce Centre alone, it also stands for inclusiveness, compassion and care, or another way, integrated community care. That is how you look at it, horizontally or vertically. We need to mobilise the whole community, not just the business community, but also NGOs (non-government organisations) and the government, of course we have got a part to play, to build a caring community in Hong Kong. For every 100 dollars we spend, as I have told many times, twenty one dollars and fifty cents goes to education, nineteen dollars goes to social welfare, and seventeen dollars goes to medical and health. So the three add together amounts to 58% of the total government recurrent expenditure. This underlines our commitment to promoting the well-being for Hong Kong community. But government efforts alone is not enough, we need total support from business sector, and also NGOs and the wider community. So today’s event has dual purposes – run for health, race with sportsmanship and at the same time doing charity for a very worthy cause. On that note, thank you very much indeed and thank you again Sun Hung Kai. Keep up the efforts to build a caring Hong Kong together with the government and the NGOs, thank you.  

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)
 
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The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, speaks at the launch ceremony of the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC at the International Commerce Centre today (December 3).
The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, attended the launch ceremony of the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC at the International Commerce Centre today (December 3). Photo shows (front row; from left) the Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Community Chest, Dr Simon Kwok; Executive Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) Mr Christopher Kwok; Executive Director and Deputy Managing Director of SHKP and Co-chairman of the event's organising committee Mr Mike Wong; Mr Cheung; Co-chairman of the event's organising committee Mr Edward Cheung; Executive Director of SHKP Mr Adam Kwok; and the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Mr Chua Hoi-wai, officiating at the ceremony.
The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, attended the launch ceremony of the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC at the International Commerce Centre today (December 3). Photo shows Mr Cheung (front row, centre) officiating at the starting ceremony with other guests.
The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, attended the launch ceremony of the SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC at the International Commerce Centre today (December 3). Photo shows Mr Cheung (front row, centre) officiating at the starting ceremony with other guests.

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CS attends launch ceremony of SHKP Vertical Run for Charity - Race to Hong Kong ICC