Budget Speech

Hong Kong/Guangdong Co-operation in Environmental Protection

74.      Under the "Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta", we will co-operate with the Guangdong Provincial Government to take forward the concept of transforming the PRD region into a green and quality living area. We will extend the existing areas of co-operation to other domains in order to turn the region into a cluster of high-tech, low-pollution and low-energy-consumption cities. We will further develop regional high-tech recycling industries, and encourage enterprises to adopt advanced technologies for cleaner production, energy saving and emission reduction. On the basis of the Memorandum of Understanding on energy co-operation signed by the HKSAR Government and the National Energy Administration, we will encourage energy enterprises of the two places to increase their co-operation in the supply of electricity and natural gas as well as the construction of related infrastructure.