The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will hold a forum late this month to promote regional cooperation of the Pan Pearl River Delta area, a spokesman for the bureau said in Hong Kong Monday.

 

Organizers expect more than 300 officials from provinces and regions of the Pan-PRD area and the central government agencies, entrepreneurs and key players in the financial services sector to attend the forum in Hong Kong on March 23.

 

The financial services forum aims to promote regional cooperation of the Pan-PRD Region.

 

Financial services experts from international and local corporations and organizations will share their views and insights with participants during the panel.

 

Topics for discussion at the forum will cover various areas, including equity market financing, private equity investment, asset management and bond financing.

 

The Pan-PRD region, also known as "9+2," comprises eight provinces and an autonomous region on the Chinese mainland, namely Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, and two special administrative regions, namely Hong Kong and Macao.

 

The Pan-PRD regional cooperation was launched in 2004.

 

(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2006)