香港経済貿易代表部が仙台市で初めて開催した同セミナーの目的は、貿易および観光分野における、世界有数の国際都市 香港の魅力についての理解を深めても らうことである。同セミナーには、約400人の宮城県庁の要人および県内の財界人が出席した。
香港セミナーでは、香港と日本のパートナーシップの強化についての意見交換がなされた。
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http://www.hketotyo.gov.hk/japan/jp/topics/news_sendai_01.html
18,3,2008
Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo, Miss Cheung Man-yee, today (February 5) called on Hong Kong and Hokkaido to build up further strategic partnership in the IT and telecommunications sectors.
Speaking at a business seminar held for the first time in Hokkaido by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo, Miss Cheung said Sapporo had gained a reputation among IT specialists and investment bank analysts as a city that "boasts a new start-up of IT venture companies".
"Entrepreneurs have settled in the city, brushed up their IT skills, and established businesses of their own.
"There are so many enclaves of IT related ventures that they have collectively been dubbed ´Sapporo Valley' as Japan's ´Silicon Valley'," she said.
"With your expertise and strong influence in IT, we would like to see an even greater presence from Hokkaido in our high-tech development."
Miss Cheung said Hong Kong's flagship IT project, the Cyberport, was designed to provide the necessary infrastructure to create a strategic cluster of IT companies and to form a critical mass of IT professional talents.
She said the first stage of the Cyberport would be ready early in 2002, but already some of the world's top New Economy businesses had signed on as anchor tenants, including Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson and Softbank.
Turning to China's impending entry into the World Trade Organisation, Miss Cheung said there were forecasts that within six years, China's foreign trade and foreign investment would double and its GDP was estimated to be 13 per cent higher than otherwise by 2010, implying an additional annual growth of one percentage point.
"Our analysis also points out that as the Mainland economy transforms into a more liberalised and transparent regime, Hong Kong's services sector stands in a good position to capture the business opportunities so arise.
"In particular, Hong Kong possesses the competitive edge in tapping into the Mainland market in the areas of distributive trade, banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications and tourism," she said.
Miss Cheung said there was a growing confidence in Hong Kong's economic recovery and the positive investment climate in China over the next five years, as reflected by the latest business survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
"The survey also indicates that not only will most AmCham member companies maintain their regional headquarters and expand their operations in Hong Kong, Hong Kong will also benefit from the expected increase in their investment in the Mainland with WTO membership," she said.
About 350 official as well as business and industry leaders in Sapporo and other parts of Hokkaido attended today's seminar which was the latest of a series of large-scale seminars being organised by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo at major cities throughout Japan.
| From left: Mr Stephen Mak, Director - Japan, Hong Kong Trade Development Council; Miss Cheung Man-yee, Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo; the Hon. Selina Chow, Chairman of Hong Kong Tourist Association and Mr. Kunio Kano, Regional Director - Japan and Korea, Hong Kong Tourist Association at the business seminar in Sapporo today (February 5). |
| From left: The Hon. Selina Chow, Chairman of Hong Kong Tourist Association; Mr. Nobuo Katsura, Mayor of Sapporo City; Miss Cheung Man-yee, Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo; Mr. Sun Ping, Consular General of China in Sapporo and Miss Vivian Lau, Miss Hong Kong at a reception after the business seminar in Sapporo today (February 5) |
終於重任還是交給港台。
要證明自己的立場,可以用「看得見」的方法。
「我們是很公道的,譬如拍了中方五個代表,又同樣拍英方五個代表。」
儘管資源有限,籌備倉促,港台仍能完成任務。張敏儀禁不住不避嫌地,在訪問中稱讚自己人不下三數次,形容他們「發揮了無人相信的效率。」
等了156年的齊心
在非常時期,自然很多因循的做法都要讓步。連政府部門之間,亦「罕見」地表現得互相信任。為官十多年的張敏儀都坦言相當意外。
像政要雲集的會展中心內,保安極度嚴密,進場的人都要出示預先由政府發出的特製名牌。港台率領著一千五百多個工作和表演人員,很多是臨時聘用的,只佩有由港台發出的名牌,如果警方公事公辦,他們一定不得其門而入。
誰會想到警方會網開一面,讓他們進入會場?
是故張敏儀盛讚助理警務處長李明逵好「reasonable」。
「他對我說:『真不明白你們怎麼帶著這許多人!』我說:『你不要理吧!相信我啦!』最後他真的信任我們,讓我們自己分組監察帶來的人。」
煙花背後
在那個「兵荒馬亂」時期,有時候不得不兵行險著。「如果畏首畏尾,就甚麼都做不成了。」
像港台一直堅持在特區成立慶典上放煙花(只有火光的效果而已,不是真的煙花),可是消防處和礦務處認為煙花從未在會展會場試放,測試不到濃煙的程度,一直不批准。張敏儀只好親自打電話給消防處長張比德和礦務處長林滿甜,費了一番唇舌才搞妥了。好戲卻還在後頭。
「其實我們心知一放煙花,警鐘一定會響,我就纏著會展中心的經理,請他從早上九時到十二時,把警鐘關掉。」
結果這邊廂慶典熱熱鬧鬧地進行,煙花效果更是人人讚得不得了;那邊廂張敏儀大概偷偷抹了一把汗。
「我們都算大膽!」慶幸無驚無險,過了一關。
博士論文
張敏儀事後比較各中外傳媒轉播的片段,赫然發覺港台有些心血竟白白浪費了。
最可惜的是三十日晚上,江澤民會見查理斯王子的場合中,周南跟彭定康握手的珍貴鏡頭。
「香港人不是談論了整整四年半:『究竟周南會不會跟彭定康握手』嗎?終於讓我們拍到了──卻完全沒有人(傳媒)用這個片段。再沒有人關心這件事情有沒有發生過。」
皆因片段要待一個小時後,交接儀式完結了,才可以播出。而那時,臨立會宣誓儀式又快要開始了。
改朝換代的當兒,在彭定康和范徐麗泰之間,傳媒很自然地,選擇了後者。
身為傳媒的一分子,張敏儀不禁有點兒感觸:「新聞價值究竟在哪?原本很有價值的事件,只因為相隔了一個小時,就『唔係*』。」
她一直堅持港台要客觀中立地報導主權回歸這件香港歷史大事。現在才發覺,很多傳媒的做法不一樣。 同一件事實的報導,經過「取捨」,原來可以像這麼一回事:
「解放軍入城,香港傳媒用的片段顯得好平靜,不會令你覺得恐怖、受威脅;英、美的傳媒就在旁白提醒你:『這些就是六四時的解放軍啦!』還要加插六四的新聞片段。中央電視台當然形容解放軍是人民子弟兵之類,又播新界鄉民歡迎他們的片段。
「原來不只中方的電視台有偏見,外國的一樣有,只是程度問題罷了!」
張敏儀說她全看了香港、中國、BBC及CNN的主權移交報導,笑言從中已經可以找到足夠資料寫一篇傳播學的博士論文。
港台亦將拍攝下來的片段剪輯成為紀念主權回歸的版本,收錄進光碟和錄影帶公開發售,收益將撥捐?
對這段歷史,張敏儀又如何「取捨」?大概可以從這個由她「督剪」的版本看出端倪。
張敏儀(68崇基英文),現任廣播處處長。
張敏儀與技術顧問謝熙德攝於廣播中心
與港台工作人員攝於政權交接儀式會場
credit: http://www.alumni.cuhk.edu.hk/magazine/nov97/html/page12-14.html