Hong Kong will host the Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China for the second time on Tuesday, with 1,200 representatives from approximately 50 countries and regions set to attend.

Themed "Advancing China's peaceful reunification and Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”, the conference will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center starting at 3:30 pm, the event's organizer — the Hong Kong Association for promotion of peaceful reunification of China — announced at a press conference on Monday morning.

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According to the organizer, the conference will be attended by officials from the central government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, representatives from nearly 180 overseas Chinese organizations, as well as representatives from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, including patriotic associations and overseas organizations for the promotion of a peaceful reunification of China.

Yiu Chi-shing, president of the organizing group, will deliver a welcome speech. Other speeches and keynote addresses will be delivered by Shi Taifeng, head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee; Zheng Yanxiong, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR; Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu; and representatives of pro-reunification organizations from around the world.

Hong Kong youth representatives will read the Hong Kong Declaration 2024, calling on all Chinese people to unite and work together for a bright future with the nation’s peaceful reunification and rejuvenation.

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At the press conference, Yiu said that this will be the second time that Hong Kong has hosted this conference (the first time was in 2010), underscoring the successful implementation of the "one country, two systems" principle in Hong Kong and the city’s vital role in the nation's reunification.

The successful experience of developing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area also presents a promising picture for the integrated development of the mainland and Taiwan, he said.

Yiu said that Hong Kong’s hosting of this conference further underscores the resounding calls for peace, development, exchange, and cooperation among people of both the mainland and Taiwan.

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Henry Tan, executive chairman of the event’s organizing group, said that Hong Kong is the first Chinese city to host the conference for a second time, demonstrating the nation's high regard for Hong Kong as a model for the "one country, two systems” principle, and its crucial role in anti-secession and pro-reunification efforts and in cross-Strait exchanges.

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