Secretary for Transport & Logistics Lam Sai-hung and his Under Secretary Liu Chun-san will take the inaugural sleeper trains of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link to Beijing and Shanghai tomorrow respectively.

Mr Lam will depart from the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station to the Beijingxi Station at dusk tomorrow and arrive in Beijing in the early morning of June 16.

Meanwhile, Mr Liu will depart from Hong Kong to the Shanghai Hongqiao Station tomorrow.

Both of them will return to Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon. During Mr Lam's absence, Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Algernon Yau will take up the post of Secretary for Transport & Logistics concurrently.