Boost for China-HK integration


Policy speech: Leung at a press conference after delivering his 2016 Policy Address to the Legislative Council in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong yesterday. – AFP

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader announced steps to boost integration with China, pinning the city’s future on the success of Beijing’s international “One Belt, One Road” concept.

Leung Chun-ying, who started a five-year term as chief executive in 2012, said during his annual policy address that Hong Kong would play a significant role in promoting the new “silk road” spreading from Western China to Central Asia and Europe.

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