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eNorth: On Feb.18, just before the news press of "Tianjin
Week in Hong Kong" was held, Mr. Wang Guohua, the director
and presient of Tankongpao of Hong Kong and Member of CPPCC (the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference), accepted an
interview.
There was a strong emotional tie in Mr.Wang's heart with Tianjin.
Mr. Wang said that in 1902 Takungpao was born and developed afterwards
in Tianjin. At that time, Takungpao had several branches in China.
In June,2000, Takungpao held the "Conferences of the 98th Anniversary
of Takungpao and the 5th Anniversary of TakungNet" in Tianjin.
At present, being issued in more than 130 countries and regions,
Takungpao has been recommended as one of "the most influential
newspapers in Chinese" by the UN.
When talking about "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong",
Mr. Wang said that Tianjin was both the centre of newspaper and
informations and economy of Northern China in the past; Hong Kong
is the centre of trade, commerce and informations. Meanwhile, both
Tianjin and Hong Kong are big harbour cities. It is of great meaning
to develop the economic and cultural communications and cooperations
between these two countries. Tianjin has a special geographical
location, abundant natural resources and steady social orders, which
provides a very good investment environment. In recent years, Hong
Kong investors are more and more enthusiastic in investing in Tianjin,
and they are also well benifitted from the investment. Meanwhile,
for Tianjin, Hong Kong is the belt to connect it with the world,
the window to import foreign fund, technologies, equipment and management,
and the bridge to make economic and cultural communications with
other countries. "Hong Kong Week in Tianjin" in March,2000
was the first large-scaled propagation activity Hong Kong has held
in mainland China. However, in the past, Hong Kong people merely
knew the investment situation of Tianjin. There was no activity
to perform the complex situations of Tianjin and Hong Kong in a
short time. "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong" will enable
Hong Kong people to understand Tianjin in various aspects, and at
the same time, to know more about mainland China through Tianjin,
so that more Hong Kong investors will invest in Tianjin and in mainland
China.
Mr. Wang said, he and his colleagues of Takungpao were all very
happy when they knew that "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong"
would be held in Hong Kong. Takungpao has already held several meetings
to discuss the reporting plan of the activity. During the activity,
Takungpao will report the activity detailedly. Finally, Mr. Wang
wrote down his good wish for this activity.
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