Hong Kong Celebrates First Gold Medal at Youth Olympic Games in Dakar

SCST congratulates Poon Hao-ran on winning first gold medal in history for Hong Kong, China in Youth Olympic Games

The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, today (November 4) congratulated wushu athlete Poon Hao-ran on winning a gold medal in the Men's Taijiquan combined final Taijishan event of the 4th Youth Olympic Games at Dakar, Senegal. This is the first gold medal won by the Hong Kong, China Delegation in the Youth Olympic Games this year and also the first gold medal ever won by Hong Kong, China at the Youth Olympic Games.

The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law. Photo source: reference image

Poon Hao-ran. Photo source: FB@SF&OC

Miss Law also congratulated table tennis athletes Su Tsz-tung and Li Ki-ho on winning a silver medal in Mixed Doubles event, and swimming athlete Man Wui-kiu on securing a bronze medal in the Women's 100m Breaststroke.

Su Tsz-tung and Li Ki-ho. Photo source: FB@SF&OC

Man Wui-kiu. Photo source: FB@SF&OC

Miss Law said, "Poon delivered an outstanding performance throughout the competition and excelled in the final to capture Hong Kong, China's first gold medal at this edition of the Youth Olympic Games, achieving a historic result that has made all Hong Kong citizens proud. Su and Li demonstrated remarkable determination and fought their way through the competition to claim the silver medal. Man also performed superbly to win the bronze medal. We look forward to our athletes continuing to achieve excellent results and bringing honour to Hong Kong."

The 4th Youth Olympic Games are being held from October 31 to November 13. The Hong Kong, China Delegation has sent a total of 15 athletes to compete in 12 sports.

CE continues visit to Beijing (with photos/video)

The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, continued his visit to Beijing this morning (November 4) and attended the opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, themed "Beijing-Hong Kong: Together into the 15th Five Year Plan".

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr Lee said that the Symposium has achieved fruitful results over nearly three decades, during which co-operation between Beijing and Hong Kong has gradually expanded from trade, commerce and infrastructure to high-end areas including financial services, innovation and technology, green and low-carbon development, intellectual property and professional services. By bringing in Hong Kong's international resources to serve Beijing's high-quality development and opening up channels for Beijing's innovative industries to go global, the Symposium has promoted two-way investment and joint development, and played an important role in deepening Beijing-Hong Kong collaboration.

Mr Lee said that Beijing and Hong Kong can further deepen collaboration in three main directions in the future. These include advancing two-way financial opening up, where Hong Kong, as the most convenient international financing platform for Beijing enterprises, could join hands with Beijing to expand green finance and offshore Renminbi business; deepening collaboration in innovation and technology between the two places, accelerating the development of the Northern Metropolis and building an internationalised university town to promote the integrated development of education, technology and talent, opening a new chapter for Beijing and Hong Kong institutions to jointly nurture high-calibre talent and foster new quality productive forces; and giving full play to Hong Kong's roles as a "super connector" and a "super value-adder" to fully empower enterprises in going global and help bring the country's culture and soft power to the world. He said that Hong Kong will continue to proactively serve the country's needs and work with Beijing to transform the achievements of co-operation between the two places into a new impetus of high-quality development, making greater contributions to the country's high-standard opening up.

Mr Lee later departed for Shanghai. He will attend the welcome dinner of the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in the evening, and exchange views with various participants from all over the world.

Mr Lee will attend the opening ceremony of the ninth CIIE and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum tomorrow (November 5). He will also visit the Hong Kong exhibition area and the exhibition booths of Hong Kong enterprises, and deliver a speech at the Hong Kong sub-forum of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum.

CE continues visit to Beijing (with photos/video) Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

CE continues visit to Beijing (with photos/video) Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases