ICAC and Guangdong anti-corruption body strengthen co-operation amid economic crisis
2009-6-8
The ICAC and the Guangdong Provincial People’s Procuratorate (GDPP) will expand and deepen mutual cooperation in terms of operational assistance as well as corruption prevention in the face of the global financial crisis.
ICAC Commissioner Dr Timothy Tong Hin-ming today (Monday) noted that it was timely for the two agencies to step up anti-graft cooperation as both places were putting in tremendous public resources to stimulate business developments and expedite constructi on projects in countering the impact of the financial tsunami.
Dr Tong led a delegation to visit the GDPP and met with GDPP’s Chief Procurator, Mr Zheng Hong, this morning. At the meeting, the two agencies agreed to hold regular sessions in future to exchange anti-corruption experience in specific areas, including construction works, public procurement and integrity of civil servants.
Dr Tong also invited GDPP officials to brief Hong Kong’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on the laws and regulations in conducting business in the province at an ICAC seminar to be held in September.
Meanwhile, Dr Tong also hoped that ICAC’s newly-established Centre of Anti-Corruption Studies could conduct joint studies with the GDPP on issues of mutual interest, such as the comparison of anti-corruption regimes.
Given the close links between Hong Kong and Guangdong, the two agencies also explored co-operation on the education front and studied the possibility to organise activities for the youth in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, such as promoting anti-corrupt ion messages to the young people through the new media.
Dr Tong also invited GDPP to send a delegation to participate in the Fourth ICAC Symposium on business sector corruption to be held in Hong Kong in December.
The ICAC delegation comprises Ms Julie Mu Fee-man, Director of Community Relations; Mrs Jean Au Yeung Lui Miu-kwan, Acting Director of Corruption Prevention; Mr Jeremy Lo Kwok-chung, Assistant Director of Community Relations; and Mr Ng Ping-kwok, Acting A ssistant Director of Operations.
The delegation will also visit Shenzhen Municipal People’s Procuratorate tomorrow before returning to Hong Kong.
ICAC Commissioner Dr Timothy Tong Hin-ming today (Monday) noted that it was timely for the two agencies to step up anti-graft cooperation as both places were putting in tremendous public resources to stimulate business developments and expedite constructi on projects in countering the impact of the financial tsunami.
Dr Tong led a delegation to visit the GDPP and met with GDPP’s Chief Procurator, Mr Zheng Hong, this morning. At the meeting, the two agencies agreed to hold regular sessions in future to exchange anti-corruption experience in specific areas, including construction works, public procurement and integrity of civil servants.
Dr Tong also invited GDPP officials to brief Hong Kong’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on the laws and regulations in conducting business in the province at an ICAC seminar to be held in September.
Meanwhile, Dr Tong also hoped that ICAC’s newly-established Centre of Anti-Corruption Studies could conduct joint studies with the GDPP on issues of mutual interest, such as the comparison of anti-corruption regimes.
Given the close links between Hong Kong and Guangdong, the two agencies also explored co-operation on the education front and studied the possibility to organise activities for the youth in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, such as promoting anti-corrupt ion messages to the young people through the new media.
Dr Tong also invited GDPP to send a delegation to participate in the Fourth ICAC Symposium on business sector corruption to be held in Hong Kong in December.
The ICAC delegation comprises Ms Julie Mu Fee-man, Director of Community Relations; Mrs Jean Au Yeung Lui Miu-kwan, Acting Director of Corruption Prevention; Mr Jeremy Lo Kwok-chung, Assistant Director of Community Relations; and Mr Ng Ping-kwok, Acting A ssistant Director of Operations.
The delegation will also visit Shenzhen Municipal People’s Procuratorate tomorrow before returning to Hong Kong.