Legislative Council (LegCo) President Starry Lee Wai-king on Monday said she hopes the city’s legislators will work to integrate Hong Kong more deeply into the national development process.

Her remarks were made during a seminar hosted by LegCo to spread essentials from the national two sessions – the annual plenary meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body -  which both concluded in Beijing earlier this month.

LegCo’s first sharing session on the spirit of the national two sessions on Monday morning brought together lawmakers and senior LegCo Secretariat officials to study the key messages of the national gatherings.

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Lee, who is also Hong Kong's sole delegate in the NPC Standing Committee, shared her reflections on the committee’s work report and pledged that LegCo will continuously review and reform itself as a key constitutional organ of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Lee also conveyed remarks made by Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang during his meeting with the SAR’s national legislators and political advisers at the two sessions. She said she hopes that lawmakers will work together to meet Ding's expectations for Hong Kong by proactively aligning with the nation's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), upholding and improving the executive-led system, safeguarding national security and social stability, promoting high-quality economic development, and strengthening patriotism in Hong Kong.

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LegCo has great potential to play a role in upholding and improving the executive-led system, which is also one of the current legislature's key priorities, said Lee.

Another 35 lawmakers shared their takeaways from this year’s national two sessions as well as their suggestions and follow-up work across various policy areas, including finance, innovation and technology, industrial development, legal services, and culture.

The session was also streamed live on the LegCo website for public viewing.

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At the sharing session, lawmaker Maggie Chan Man-ki, a Hong Kong NPC deputy and seasoned solicitor, said the 15th Five-Year Plan supports Hong Kong in bolstering its role as an international legal and dispute resolution service hub.

She said that to better integrate into and serve national development, particularly in the field of foreign-related rule of law, Hong Kong should build itself into a full-fledged international arbitration hub and industrialize commercial arbitration.

To achieve this, she suggested establishing an international commercial arbitration hub within the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone, leveraging its institutional strengths. She said she envisions the hub serving cutting-edge high-tech sectors by extending measures that allow Hong Kong-invested enterprises to choose for arbitration to be seated in Hong Kong to foreign-invested enterprises in the zone’s Shenzhen park, while also attracting Chinese mainland arbitration institutions to set up branches in Hong Kong.

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