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Press Releases
Appointments to Commission on Strategic
Development
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The Chief Executive, Mr Donald Tsang,
today (June 27) appointed 67 non-official members and four
official members to the Commission on Strategic Development.
The Chief Executive said that being the most important
advisory body led by him personally, the commission had
proved to be an effective forum for the Administration to
collect community views on a wide range of issues of
strategic importance to the development of Hong Kong, such
as Hong Kong¡¦s international competitiveness, population
policy and creation of employment. "The commission has also
served as a useful platform to promote discussion within the
community on various important issues, such as the issue of
electing the Chief Executive and forming the Legislative
Council by universal suffrage,¡¨ Mr Tsang said.
¡§The new term commission will continue to explore the
way forward for Hong Kong¡¦s future development from a macro
and long-term perspective. We believe that the commission
will continue to gauge a wide range of community views to
help the formulation of major policies on the long-term
development of Hong Kong.¡¨
With a view to allowing a more flexible and in-depth
discussion on strategic issues related to Hong Kong¡¦s
long-term development, the Chief Executive announced that
the new term of commission would be restructured to allow
discussion of strategic issues to be taken up by a single
forum chaired by himself. As and when necessary, task
groups or working groups could be set up to study specific
strategic issues for consideration of the commission.
¡§The commission will continue to reflect and gauge a
wide range of community views early in response to calls for
new Government policy initiatives,¡¨ Mr Tsang said.
The 67 non-official members are drawn from a broad
cross section of the community comprising mainly
professionals, academics, businessmen, politicians, and
prominent labour and media personalities. The four official
members are the Chief Secretary for Administration, the
Financial Secretary, the Head of the Central Policy Unit and
the Director of the Chief Executive¡¦s Office. All members
will serve for a two-year term starting from July 1.
The Central Policy Unit will continue to provide
secretariat service to the Commission and work in tandem
with relevant bureaus on various policy issues. The full
membership of the commission, a brief introduction of
individual members and the terms of reference of the
commission are at Annex.
Full membership of the Commission
Brief introduction of individual members
Terms of reference
Ends/Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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