The High-level Meeting and Fifth Plenary Session of the Hong Kong/Fujian Co-operation Conference were held in Fuzhou today, with the governments of the two places agreeing to pursue exchanges and co-operation in 11 areas.

The meeting and plenary were staged by Chief Executive John Lee and CPC Fujian Provincial Committee Secretary Zhou Zuyi, leading delegation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and Fujian Government respectively.

They were joined by Director of Bureau III of the CPC Central Committee Hong Kong & Macao Work Office and the State Council Hong Kong & Macao Affairs Office Zou Jinsong.

Hong Kong and Fujian reached a consensus to pursue exchanges and co-operation in finance; civil aviation, maritime transport and logistics; economics, trade and investment; innovation and technology; legal and dispute resolution; culture; education; youth development; health and Chinese medicine; tourism; and facilitation measures for Hong Kong people on the Mainland.

Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki and Vice Governor of Fujian Province Zhao Zenglian signed a "Co-operation Memorandum of the High-Level Meeting and the Fifth Plenary Session of the Hong Kong/Fujian Co-operation Conference".

Another six co-operation agreements were signed by government departments and statutory bodies from the two places covering cultural and tourism co-operation, youth exchanges, finance, promoting the international expansion of Fujian enterprises, education, and jointly establishing the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Fuzhou) Technology Transfer & Commercialisation Center.