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The Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, will leave for the United States on Sunday (October 4) to visit New York and Washington, DC, before heading to Lima, Peru, on October 8 to attend the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group as a member of the Chinese delegation.
Mr Tsang will visit technology start-ups in New York and speak at a seminar on Hong Kong at the Asia Society on October 5. During his stay in Washington, DC, from October 6 to 8, Mr Tsang will meet with US officials and prominent figures in the financial sector.
From October 9 to 11, Mr Tsang will attend the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Lima, and take the opportunity to meet his counterparts on the sidelines, including the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dr Janet Yellen.
Before returning to Hong Kong, Mr Tsang will fly to New York to attend a reception for the Hong Kong community hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York at the Museum of Chinese in America on October 12.
Mr Tsang will return to Hong Kong in the morning on October 14. In his absence, the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Professor K C Chan, will act as Financial Secretary.
Ends/Friday, October 2, 2015
Issued at HKT 16:39
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