On the 12th, the Development Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced the establishment of the Northern Metropolis Coordination Office (PMO) to coordinate, advocate and promote the development of the Northern Metropolis. The SAR government announced on the same day that Qiu Zhuoheng would be appointed as the head of the office. The Northern Metropolis Office will formulate and publish the action plan and specific plan of the Northern Metropolitan Area this year. The spokesman of the Development Council said that the Northern Metropolis, with the theme of "International Innovation City", integrating quality life, industrial development and cultural leisure, is a new engine to drive Hong Kong to reach a new peak, and an important platform to promote high-quality economic cooperation between Hong Kong and mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area and integrate into the overall national development. The plan of the Northern Metropolis covers land development, housing supply, transportation infrastructure, ecological conservation, industrial development, government and community facilities and other fields. It is a huge scale. Several policy bureaus and departments of the government will participate. The Northern Metropolitan Office will undertake the overall planning and promotion work. In his 2022 policy address, John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that the government would make every effort to promote the construction of Northern Metropolis. (New News Agency)