The Government announced today that Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan will depart tomorrow for a five-day visit to three Greater Bay Area cities, namely Guangzhou, Foshan and Shenzhen, and Zhejiang Province.
 
Mr Tse, together with members of the Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs, will tour the bay area cities from August 7 to 9. For their first meeting, in Guangzhou, they will meet representatives of the Guangdong Department of Ecology & Environment with a view to deepening exchanges and co-operation on environmental issues.
 
Additionally, they plan to conduct several tours with the goal of gaining an in-depth understanding of the latest development of new-energy transport, new-energy technology and waste incineration for electricity generation in the Mainland.

As such, they will call on the Yanling new energy eco-industrial park and Guangzhou public transport command centre of the Guangzhou Public Transport Group, the Nanhai Hydrogen Center and hydrogen fuel cell tram in Gaoming district in Foshan, and the exhibition hall at Huawei Digital Power AntoHill Headquarters, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, and Nanshan Energy Eco-Park in Shenzhen.
 
On Wednesday, Mr Tse will depart for Zhejiang Province where he will view a flexible high voltage direct current transmission project and an offshore electricity transmission research base to learn about the Mainland’s latest development in electricity technology.
 
The environment chief will return to Hong Kong on August 11. While he is away, Under Secretary for Environment & Ecology Diane Wong will be Acting Secretary.