Hong Kong treasury chief to visit UK and commerce secretary to go to US in first top-level trips to West in 3 years, sources say
- Treasury secretary Christopher Hui to go to UK in April and Algernon Yau to visit US in May
- Visits arranged as city mounts major drive to repair economic damage caused by coronavirus restrictions
Visits to Britain and the United States will be made by Hong Kong ministers in the next two months, the first top-level trips to the West in more than three years, despite geopolitical tensions, the Post has learned.
Sources revealed Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu would visit Britain in April and Algernon Yau Ying-wah, the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, would head to Detroit in the United States in May for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) ministerial meeting.
But one source confirmed that Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu had no immediate plans to visit European countries or the United States.
Government insiders said the next destination for the city leader was mainland China’s Hainan province for the Boao Forum for Asia conference from March 28 to 31.
He will also make trips to several cities in the Greater Bay Area – a huge economic zone including Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in Guangdong – next month.
