If confirmed as member of the Executive Board, I will do my utmost to make this a greater priority. The challenges are many. But we can meet them, working together in mutual trust and in good cooperation.
Due to strong export growth, the economy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) started to improve in the second half of 2002. While it still faces various, we firmly believe that the Hong Kong SAR economy will definitely weather its difficulties and resume quite strong growth under the leadership of the Hong Kong SAR government.