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| Japan honours former TDC head for contribution to trade links ( 06/12/2004 ) | |||||||||
During eight years as Executive Director (1996-2004), Mr. Sze presided over comprehensive programmes to strengthen bilateral trade with Japan and to build partnerships between small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan and Hong Kong. A major focus was to attract Japanese SMEs to use Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta as their southern road to China for sourcing, manufacturing or selling. Mr Sze was also an active member of the high-level Japan-Hong Kong Business Co-operation Committee Mr Kitamura said that, with Mr. Sze's encouragment, there were now more than 3,000 Japanese companies in the Pearl River Delta. He praised Mr. Sze and the TDC for providing customised business matching for Japanese firms, a Japanese-language hotline for visiting Japanese business executives, and a web site, newsletter and practical business guide in Japanese. Mr Sze said he was deeply honoured to receive the award, which amounted to a "third party" endorsement of his efforts to promote Hong Kong's trade with Japan. "Japan has always had a special meaning for me," said Mr. Sze. "It was the first foreign country I ever visited - back in 1968 as a university student attending an international students' conference. It was a market that I - first as Director-General of Trade, then as Executive Director of TDC - did my best to access and promote." The TDC is the public organization that promotes Hong Kong's external trade and raises Hong Kong's international profile as a business platform. | |||||||||
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