| Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Union, Ms Linda Lai (centre), toasts the Year of the Ram and the launch of a year-long celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels at a reception on March 3 (Brussels time). With her are Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Kris Peeters (third right); European Commissioner for Competition, Ms Margrethe Vestager (third left); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of the Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union, Ms Yang Yanyi (second right); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of Belgium, Mr Qu Xing (first left); Chairman of the Belgium-Hong Kong Society, Mr Piet Steel (second left); and Director, UK, Benelux and Ireland, Hong Kong Trade and Development Council, Mr David Marsden (first right). |
