Zhu Zhongming meets with John Lee, Xu Qifang attends

Shanghai Mayor Zhu Zhongming met with John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, yesterday. Xu Qifang, Deputy Director of the Central Hong Kong and Macao Work Office and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council who handles routine work, attended the meeting. On behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Zhu Zhongming extended a warm welcome to Lee and his delegation for coming to Shanghai to attend the CIIE, and expressed gratitude to the Hong Kong SAR Government for its support and assistance to Shanghai's development. Zhu Zhongming said that Shanghai and Hong Kong are two shining pearls on the map of the motherland, with close exchanges and profound friendship. At present, Shanghai is taking the building of the "Five Centers" as its main direction, striving to promote a qualitative improvement in the economy and a reasonable growth in quantity, while Hong Kong is strengthening the building of the "Four Centers and One Highland." The development philosophies of Shanghai and Hong Kong are highly aligned, and the path of common development and shared prosperity will surely become even broader. He looks forward to the two sides relying on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Cooperation Conference mechanism, seizing the major opportunity of the simultaneous implementation of Shanghai's "15th Five-Year Plan" and Hong Kong's first five-year plan, further deepening cooperation in economic and trade investment, science and technology talent, and other areas, strengthening interaction and exchanges in professional service fields such as law, shipping, and accounting, continuously deepening exchanges in areas such as youth, culture, and art, and making every effort to push Shanghai-Hong Kong cooperation and development to a new level, so as to better serve the overall national development.