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HK rounds up post-quake work

October 28, 2016
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Panda planet:  Chief Secretary Carrie Lam (right) attends the sharing session on reconstruction of the Wolong National Nature Reserve.

Representatives of organisations and volunteers who participated in post-quake reconstruction in Sichuan have shared with 200 students and youths their experiences in carrying out the reconstruction projects at a session.

 

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam officiated at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's Post-quake Reconstruction Support Work in Sichuan Completion Ceremony cum Sharing Session on Reconstruction of the Wolong National Nature Reserve today.

 

She said the sharing session marked the conclusion of the Hong Kong’s reconstruction support work in Sichuan and opened a new chapter in further exchanges and collaboration between Sichuan and Hong Kong on nature conservation and youth matters founded on the fruitful outcomes of the support work.

 

Hong Kong has funded 190 reconstruction projects with $10 billion in total since a massive earthquake took place in Wenchuan in 2008.

 

The projects comprised 151 undertaken by the HKSAR Government, 32 taken forward by non-governmental organisations, and seven that were supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

 

The projects covered road infrastructure, education, medical and hygiene services, social welfare and reconstruction of the Wolong National Nature Reserve.

 

Noting that reconstruction of the Wolong National Nature Reserve is a top priority of the HKSAR's support work, Mrs Lam said Wolong is not only a national nature reserve providing habitat for Sichuan giant pandas and world natural heritage site, it is also a Special Administrative Region that accommodates more than 5,000 residents.

 

As a token of thanks for the Hong Kong’s donations towards Wolong reconstruction, Hong Kong people have been given free admission to the giant panda bases in Shenshuping and Dujiangyan since May, with over 2,000 Hong Kong people having toured these bases so far.

 

Director of the Sichuan Wolong National Nature Reserve Administration Zhang Hemin introduced post-quake reconstruction work for the nature reserve and scientific research for giant pandas’ conservation at the ceremony.

 

He will meet 300 students at Ocean Park tomorrow and talk about the conservation and scientific research for the protection of giant pandas.

 

A roving exhibition on Hong Kong’s reconstruction support work in Sichuan will be held from tomorrow to December 29 while a documentary (in Chinese only) prepared by the Government on the city’s efforts in rebuilding Wolong has been uploaded to the Development Bureau website.

 

 



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