Hong Kong Commissioner Visits State Government and Business Leaders
Hong Kong Commissioner for Economic and Trade Affairs, USA, Donald Tong made his first official visits to the states of Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia in February, meeting with government officials and business leaders.
While in Boston, Mr. Tong met with academic, business and government leaders, including Massachusetts Treasurer and Receiver, General Timothy Cahill; Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Greg Bialecki; and Executive Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Jeffrey Fuhrer.
In his respective meetings, Mr. Tong gave an update on the latest economic and financial landscape in Hong Kong, including the measures introduced by the Hong Kong government to stabilize the financial markets and to help small-and medium-sized enterprises.
In Chicago, Mr. Tong met local academic, business and community leaders, including Chairman of the World Trade Center Illinois, Hon. Neil F. Hartigan; Vice Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Charles P. Carey; Acting Commissioner of the Department of Community Development in Chicago, Christine Raguso; and Dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Professor Edward Snyder.
Mr. Tong also met with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and updated members of the chamber on the latest economic situation in Hong Kong. In his meeting, Mr. Tong emphasized that Hong Kong’s economy had been consistently ranked as the freest in the world, most recently by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.
He also said that Hong Kong was committed to free market principles, free trade, free flow of information, capital and people, as well as a low and simple tax system.
In Atlanta, Mr. Tong met the Director of the Emory Global Health Institute and Vice President for Global Health at Emory University, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. Mr. Tong also met with Commissioner Kenneth Stewart of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, and Georgia Secretary of State, Karen C. Handel.
Mr. Tong gave a luncheon presentation at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, where he highlighted the successful implementation of the “One-Country, Two Systems” principle in Hong Kong, and the territory’s high-degree of autonomy. In his presentation, Mr. Tong also elaborated on the measures introduced by the Hong Kong government to stabilize the financial market, create and preserve jobs and support enterprises.
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