CE continues visit to Fujian (with photos/videos)
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In the morning, Mr Lee travelled to Nanping City and met with Vice Governor of Fujian Province Mr Zhao Zenglian and the Secretary of the CPC Nanping Municipal Committee, Mr Yuan Chaohong, to exchange views on issues of mutual concern. Mr Lee then visited Wuyi University in Wuyishan, where he met with interns and Hong Kong students under the Youth Internship Programme at Wuyishan on Biodiversity Conservation to learn about their internship experiences and the latest progress of the programme.
Wuyi University adopts a regional industry-oriented approach in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship education. The internship programme is a youth co-operation project jointly taken forward by Hong Kong and Fujian arising from the Third Plenary Session of the Hong Kong/Fujian Co-operation Conference in 2018, with 48 Hong Kong young people having participated to date. Mr Lee said that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has always attached great importance to youth development and will continue to provide young people with diversified learning opportunities to broaden their horizons and strengthen their affection for and sense of belonging to the country. He encouraged young people to seize the valuable opportunity to take up internships on the Mainland, understand in person the country's development and achievements in areas such as ecological conservation and scientific research, and to serve as pillars of talent contributing to the country's high-quality development.
In the afternoon, Mr Lee visited a local cultural and tourism project. He visited a museum to learn about the history and heritage, cultural development and the culture-and-tourism integration of Wuyi rock tea. Mr Lee said that Fujian boasts profound historical and cultural heritage, and rich ecological resources, and has vigorously promoted the in-depth integrated development of culture and tourism in recent years. Hong Kong has also been advancing the integrated development of culture and tourism, and is proactively developing into an East-meets-West centre for international arts and cultural exchanges. Mr Lee said he looked forward to Hong Kong and Fujian further deepening co-operation in culture and tourism, promoting people-to-people exchanges, and jointly taking cultural and tourism development to a new level.
In the evening, Mr Lee attended an event in Fuzhou organised by the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in Fujian and met with Hong Kong businessmen in Fujian Province. Mr Lee said that Fujian is a core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road under the Belt and Road Initiative, while Hong Kong serves as a functional platform for the Belt and Road. There is vast room for co-operation between the two places. Mr Lee earlier led a Hong Kong and Mainland business delegation, including enterprises from Fujian, to visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, introducing to the local political and business sectors the country's enormous market and opportunities arising from industrial development. With the unique advantages of having strong support of the motherland and being closely connected to the world under the "one country, two systems" principle, Hong Kong will continue to play its roles as a "super connector" and a "super value-adder", and work with Fujian to explore new opportunities for mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. Mr Lee encouraged Hong Kong businessmen in Fujian to continue building bridges for exchanges between the two places, keep promoting Hong Kong and Fujian economic and trade co-operation and people-to-people exchanges, thereby jointly contributing to the country's high-level opening up.
Mr Lee will continue his visit tomorrow (June 24) and will travel on to Ningde City, Fujian, around noon.
Ends/Tuesday, June 23, 2026
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