MOFTEC delegation visits Tradelink

(27 AUGUST 2002, HONG KONG) A delegation led by Mr. Gao Hu Cheng, Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) of China visited Tradelink on 24 August 2002. The MOFTEC delegation visited Singapore and Hong Kong to explore and foster future co-operation in cross-border electronic commerce.

Tradelink is already a business partner of China International Electronic Commerce Centre which is a unit under MOFTEC.

During the visit, MOFTEC delegation learnt of the many services that Tradelink is already providing. In particular, the MOFTEC delegation showed keen interest in the way Tradelink provided support to its 53,000 customers.

Mr. Gao pointed out the similarity in vision between Tradelink and CIECC. While the current cooperation between the two of them was a good starting point, he hoped that it could be used as a springboard to create more services to meet the need of traders and manufacturers both in Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Mr. Justin Yue, Chief Executive Officer of Tradelink said "We found the Minister's remarks extremely encouraging. We were taking concrete steps to this effect, and we are hopeful that with the assistance of MOFTEC, a new service linking Hong Kong enterprises with their manufacturing operations in the Pearl River Delta area could be launched in the fourth quarter of this year. Mr. Gao has now given us the impetus to develop and launch other new services linking Hong Kong and the Mainland."

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