Secretary for Justice Paul Lam will depart for Beijing tomorrow to attend the seventh Joint Conference on Advancing Hong Kong's Full Participation in & Contribution to the Belt & Road Initiative on Friday morning.

Mr Lam, in his capacity as chair of the sub-group on Belt & Road development under the Steering Group on Integration into National Development, will lead Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government officials including Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Algernon Yau, Under Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury Joseph Chan and Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology & Industry Lillian Cheong, to attend the conference.

While in Beijing, Mr Lam will also visit the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and have meetings with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up on the implementation of the measures of allowing Hong Kong-invested enterprises to adopt Hong Kong law and to choose Hong Kong as the seat of arbitration, and to discuss the preparatory work for the establishment of the International Organization for Mediation.

He will also call on the State Council Hong Kong & Macao Affairs Office to give a briefing on the progress of the Department of Justice's major policy measures including the establishment of the Hong Kong International Legal Talents Training Academy, promoting the development of Hong Kong as a centre for international legal and dispute resolution services in the Asia-Pacific region, and the promotion of rule of law education.

The justice chief will return to Hong Kong on July 12.

During Mr Lam and Mr Yau's absence, Deputy Secretary for Justice Cheung Kwok-kwan and Under Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Bernard Chan will be the respective acting secretaries.