Background and Objectives
The ECCPC, set up in April 2010 and registered as a limited company under the Companies Ordinance (Cap 32), engages the Taiwan-Hong Kong Economic and Cultural Co-operation Council (THEC), its counterpart in Taiwan, in exchanges and cooperation between Hong Kong and Taiwan. The main tasks of the ECCPC include:
- To initiate discussions and negotiations on public policy related issues of mutual interest to both places;
- To co-organise joint meetings with the THEC, secretariat meetings, expert meetings on specific topics as well as other events in order to develop multi-cooperation areas; and
- To coordinate relevant entities of the Hong Kong and Taiwan authorities for their participation in policy exchanges and discussions.
Hong Kong has also set up the Hong Kong-Taiwan Business Co-operation Committee and Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee respectively to work with their counterparts, the Economic Co-operation Committee and Cultural Co-operation Committee established under the THEC, to foster exchanges and discussions at the community level on trade, investment, tourism, culture and creative industries between the two places.