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Last year, the DAB proposed the concept of fashioning Hong Kong into an all-year-round capital of international exhibitions and sales and its significance is multiple: To address the inadequacy of existing exhibition facilities; to complement the national policy of encouraging mainland enterprises to go international; to give play to the advantages of "one country, two systems"; to boost the status of Hong Kong in the exhibition and sales arena under the "Nine plus Two" arrangement; to create more job opportunities, so as to alleviate structural unemployment more effectively; to attract more international corporations to establish their presence here; to drive the development of industries relating to exhibition and sales and to consolidate Hong Kong's reputation as the Shoppers' Paradise.

With respect to devising a sound long-term policy for economic development, I support the amendment proposed by Mr CHAN Kam-lam to promote the development of new points of growth in the economy, including the effective use of the land in border areas to turn Hong Kong into an all-year-round capital of exhibitions and sales.

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