Friday, 31 August 2018, Hong Kong, PRC: Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Carrie Lam welcomed Austria’s Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his delegation to Hong Kong, which included three federal ministers, namely the Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Mr Norbert Hofer; the Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Mrs Margarete Schramböck; and the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, Mr Heinz Fassmann, who Mrs Lam met during her visit to Europe some months ago.
CE Lam said that she visited Vienna in her previous capacity of Chief Secretary for Administration in 2014, during which she invited a high-level delegation of the Austrian Federal Government to visit Hong Kong.
Austrian and Hong Kong authorities are eager in expanding cooperation in the field of arts and culture. In fact CE Lam mentioned that the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir set up its first overseas music academy in Hong Kong in 2011.
Moreover, the soon-to-be completed M+ Museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District, together with the renovated Hong Kong Museum of Art, will bring the development of arts and culture in Hong Kong to new heights. She also expressed the hope that room for collaboration could be explored with the acclaimed MuseumsQuartier Wien.
For further information :
- Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, European Union, Brussels (Director Shirley Lam): www.hongkong-eu.org
- HK Representative Office in Germany (Director Bill Li): http://www.hketoberlin.
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