Hong Kong’s leader has vowed to expand a proposed university town tenfold to 1,000 hectares after Beijing’s point man on local affairs endorsed the concept of linking education with industry, while recognising the city’s efforts in economic and innovation and technology (I&T) development.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also said on Wednesday that Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, had stressed that the Northern Metropolis megaproject near the border with mainland…