Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung today visited Zhuhai and Jiangmen during the second day of his trip to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Accompanied by Macau Secretary for Security Office Chief Cheong Ioc-ieng and Macau Public Security Police Force Commissioner Ng Kam-wa, Mr Tang visited Qingmao Port in the morning to learn about its clearance mode, in order to explore its implementation in Hong Kong. The port adopts collaborative inspection and joint clearance under which visitors only need to queue up, have their documents inspected and biometrics collected once to complete the respective inspection by both sides.

He then departed for Zhuhai to call on Zhuhai Vice Mayor and Zhuhai Municipal Public Security Bureau Director-General Xie Rensi.

In the afternoon, he met CPC Jiangmen Municipal Committee Standing Committee Member Li Huiwen as well as Jiangmen Vice Mayor and Jiangmen Municipal Public Security Bureau Director-General Feng Xiaogang to discuss issues including combatting cross-border crimes and illegal immigration, and explored co-operation in different fields.

Mr Tang introduced to them the new Greater Bay Area Emergency Response Operational Plan formulated by Hong Kong, which aims to enhance bay area cities’ capability of handling incidents together.

He also visited Gree Electric Appliances Inc’s headquarters in Zhuhai where he learnt about the technology-based enterprise’s development.

Mr Tang concluded his two-day trip and returned to Hong Kong in the evening.