eNorth from Hong Kong: Seven days' "Tianjin Week" smoothly came to an ending ceremony of acrobatics performance with great successes on 3 April. Vice-mayor of Tianjin Municipal Government Wang Shuzu, Vice-director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong Mr.Liu Shanzai, Secretary for Justice of HKSAR Ms. Elsie Leung, Member of NPC Standing Committee Mr.Zeng Xianzi, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of the People's Republic of China in the HKSAR Mr.Cui Zhanqiao attended the ceremony and viewed the acrobatics performance.

"2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong" is multi-colorful with its 19 activities, which includes economic-trading conferences, commodity exhibitions, academic speeches and entertainment performances and produce some influences in the public of Hong Kong. Several hundreds of people, who are from political circle, commercial circle, enterprises circle and mass-media of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan besides overseas Chinese people and foreign friends. The all-round opening of Tianjin is conspicuous and noticed by the world. Near 30 Hong Kong Media continually cover the kinds of "Tianjin Week" activities by over 200 reports, including articles, pictures and TV programs. It can be sure that "Popularity of Tianjin" is being formed in Hong Kong.

The economic-trading exhibitions and conferences make "Tianjin Week" open with a good opening. During the Exhibitions, 188 kinds of high-tech products, light-textile products, ecological agriculture and green food were displayed and trading contracts with 492 enterprises of US$0.262 billion were signed, whose US$0.23 billion was from Hong Kong; 84 joint-venture and cooperation contracts of US$5.5 billion were made, whose agreement foreign capital was US$4.6 billion and contractral foreign capital was US$1.77 billion involving infrastructure, industry, commerce, logistics and tourism. All these programs will strongly promote the economic development in Tianjin and Hong Kong.

International Chain-Group Entrepreneurs Communication Activity, Tianjin-Hong Kong Tourism Cooperation Conference, New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine Academic Report Conference, Modern Logistics Conference, Tianjin-Hong Kong IT Industry Cooperation and Development Forum, Tianjin-Hong Kong Finance and Securities Forum are held in succession during "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong". The holding of these negotiation activities promotes the communication among the relevent specialists of Tianjin and Hong Kong, exchanges special informations between the two cities and brings about the all-around cooperation in every field and every level. At the same time, it also shows the efforts Tianjin makes for farewell to the traditional "sun-setting industries" and speeding up the development of new technologies and modern smoke-free industries.

The public show and the culture communication activity start an upsurge of the folk communication between Tianjin and Hong Kong. The Folk Custom Performance and the Fashion Show at the Time Square, the Peking Opera Show, the Dragon Boat Race, the Friendship Soccer Match and the Acrobatic Show all cause sensation in Hong Kong.

Vice Mayor of Tianjin Wang Shuzu says at the closing ceremony that Tianjin will expand the opening-up in bigger boldness of vision. The communication between Tianjin and Hong Kong and all the countries and regions in the world will become more and more frequently, the cooperation between them will be in wider and wider range and the friendship between them will be tighter and tighter. This event lays a more solid foundation for the further development and cooperation in the future.

(Journalists: Zhang Huijun, Wang Wei)