Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement
95. In 2011, the Central Government announced the objective of achieving basically liberalisation of trade in services between the Mainland and Hong Kong through the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) by the end of the National 12th Five-Year Plan period. HKSAR Government is working closely with the Ministry of Commerce, striving to further open up the Mainland market to Hong Kong. We shall work with Guangdong Province, aiming at early achievement of basic liberalisation of trade in services between Hong Kong and Guangdong this year.