The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, will lead a delegation to Macao this afternoon (September 21) to attend the 8th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Conference on Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine to be held tomorrow, and will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony.

     The Conference is co-organised by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau of Guangdong Province, the Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HHB), and the Health Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government. Health officials as well as experts from the three places will discuss topics such as inheritance and innovation, talent cultivation, and the industry transformation of Chinese medicine (CM), and will promote multiple GBA CM co-operation projects.

     Members of the Hong Kong delegation include the Controller of Regulatory Affairs of the Department of Health, Dr Fung Ying; the Project Director of the Chinese Medicine Hospital Project Office of the HHB, Dr Cheung Wai-lun; and the Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority, Dr Libby Lee. The Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Operator of The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong (CMHHK), Mr Wong Kwai-huen, and the Hospital Chief Executive of CMHHK, Professor Bian Zhaoxiang, will also join the delegation for the conference.

     Professor Lo will return to Hong Kong around noon tomorrow. During his absence, the Under Secretary for Health, Dr Cecilia Fan, will be the Acting Secretary for Health.

Ends/Monday, September 21, 2026
Issued at HKT 11:52

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