Deputy Secretary for Justice Cheung Kwok-kwan will visit Guangzhou and Shenzhen tomorrow for his first visit to the Mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area since taking office, the Government announced today.

Mr Cheung’s trip aims to further implement and take forward the work of the working group for Guangdong-Hong Kong co-operation on legal and dispute resolution services and the working group on Hong Kong-Shenzhen legal co-operation.

He will call on the Guangdong Province Department of Justice, the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, and the Authority of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen Municipality.

While in Shenzhen, Mr Cheung will also renew the Co-operative Arrangement on Legal Matters between the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government's Department of Justice.

Mr Cheung will return to Hong Kong in the evening.