⁍ Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will travel to Beijing next week for a three-day visit.
⁍ Lam will discuss plans to revive the global financial hub’s economy.
⁍ Lam said she would leave on Nov. 3 for the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
– The economic crisis in Hong Kong is so bad that the territory’s leader is heading to Beijing for talks, Reuters reports. “We need more support measures from the mainland of China, especially in light of the overall direction that Hong Kong should move to better integrate with the mainland of China, especially in the Greater Bay Area,” Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says. Hong Kong’s economy has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive pro-democracy protests that rocked the city last year. Lam says she’ll be in Beijing for three days, during which she’ll take a coronavirus test, the South China Morning Post reports. “My trip to Beijing this time is solely on the economic side that is in light of the economic situation, which of course is very serious in Hong Kong,” Lam says.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics/hong-kong-leader-to-visit-beijing-to-discuss-plans-to-revive-economy-idUSKBN27C0BC