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.