Hong Kong chief urges stronger links between Japan, Greater Bay Area

Strong ties between Hong Kong and Japan will facilitate the special administrative region's efforts to help strengthen connections between Japan and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, SAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday.

Lam spoke at a symposium in Tokyo on the Greater Bay Area.

In her speech at the symposium, Lam said she considers the Bay Area a new engine to propel the close ties between Hong Kong and Japan and called on Japanese companies to leverage Hong Kong's position to take advantage of business opportunities in the Bay Area.