Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho wrapped up her Singapore visit where she, along with a delegation from Hong Kong, learnt about the city-state’s promotion of green buildings and introduced the work on housing policies in Hong Kong.

Yesterday morning, the housing chief and the delegates paid a courtesy call to Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Singapore Zhu Jing to present Hong Kong's work on housing policies, and to learn about the latest development in China-Singapore co-operation.

Ms Ho told Mr Zhu that she had updated Singaporean authorities and professionals about the application of modular integrated construction (MiC) in Hong Kong’s construction projects including public housing, transitional housing and Light Public Housing. 

She also shared with the locals her experience of inspecting building technologies and construction robotics technologies during her earlier visit to the Mainland.

Ms Ho said she learnt that Singapore would like to deepen its understanding about Greater Bay Area development, in particular construction projects involving MiC, and in response to the Lion City’s interest in visiting Mainland factories, she made it clear that she would be delighted to help facilitate such technological exchanges.

Following the courtesy call, the delegation toured a project site of a construction company to view the application of MiC.

In the afternoon, Ms Ho met Singaporean Building & Construction Authority Chief Executive Officer Kelvin Wong to understand how the city-state promotes green buildings and green technologies.

Before returning to Hong Kong today, she met the Central Provident Fund Board’s Group Director of Policy, Statistics & Research Gregory Chia, during which she was briefed on the policy of allowing Singaporeans to use their fund contributions to support home ownership, healthcare and retirement.

Upon wrapping up her tour of Singapore, apart from pointing out that the visit had deepened the exchanges between the two places in areas such as housing, construction technologies, green building and age-friendly homes, she said she expects Hong Kong and Singapore to maintain liaison and continue sharing their respective experience in housing and construction.

She emphasised that while meeting with local political and business communities as well as construction professionals, the delegation told good stories of Hong Kong by introducing its unique edge of enjoying the motherland’s strong support and being closely connected to the world under the “one country, two systems” principle.