On October 28, a delegation led by Mickey Lai Kin-ming, Director of Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), visited Ocean University of China (OUC). Zhang Junfeng, President of OUC, met with the delegation at Yushan Campus. The two sides discussed ways to deepen practical cooperation in the marine and fisheries sectors. Song Wenhua, Deputy Director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Yang Kejun, Deputy Director General of the Qingdao Municipal Marine Development Bureau, attended the meeting.
President Zhang Junfeng welcomed the delegation and briefed them on OUC’s recent development achievements and its exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong. He also reviewed the progress of cooperation between OUC and AFCD. He noted that the two sides had established a solid foundation for cooperation and achieved fruitful results. He expressed the hope that they would take the visit as an opportunity to establish a regular communication mechanism, focus on modern mariculture, sustainable fisheries development, and seafood processing, strengthen cooperation in technology transfer and personnel training, and promote the integration of industry, education, research, and application, thereby contributing to the high-quality development of the marine and fisheries sectors in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Lai Kin-ming thanked OUC for its warm hospitality and introduced AFCD’s work in fisheries management, marine conservation, and the development of marine industries. He expressed the hope that the two sides would further consolidate their long-term partnership, strengthen exchanges between experts and conduct joint technology demonstration projects, promote collaborative innovation in the marine and fisheries sectors, and jointly advance the transformation and upgrading of Hong Kong’s fisheries sector.
