Laws has also helped send LSU students to China to work on research projects. "The students can observe different types of wetlands from what we have here in the southern US. For example they can experience wetlands that freeze over in the winter," he said.
Leading consultancy firm Gartner Inc estimated that 8.4 billion connected devices were in use globally in 2017, with a 31 percent increase year-on-year. And the number will surge to 20.4 billion by 2020. And China, the world's largest manufacturing powerhouse of electronics, has become a key player to drive the use of connected things.
Leaders from both sides noted progress being made in the investment talks, and look forward to reaching an agreement at a highly ambitious level, according to a press release issued after the meeting.
Lau Ching-kwong, a prominent bridge expert in Hong Kong, said the project is a testament to the positive exchanges in civil engineering and management concepts between Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland.
Lei Yamin, a single woman from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said she is undoubtedly feeling pressure from different quarters, including parents, friends and colleagues, because she is an unmarried woman.
Learning Chinese in the US took off around 1950s and 1960s and the language turned increasingly hot when China started its reform and opening-up policy in late 1970s.
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Later, the CSRC announced on May 10 that JP Morgan Broking (Hong Kong) Limited had also applied to set up a majority ownership securities firm in China, and the company plans to hold a 51 percent of the new firm's stake.
Lee believed 2017 only marked a year of transition. Over the coming few years, the Hong Kong market will continue to gain momentum from the burgeoning appetite for "new economy" companies.
Law professor Willy Fu Kin-chi said he looks forward to Hong Kong acting as a "super-connector" in the legal arena in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Law firms from the island are also encouraged to establish representative offices or law firms in the city, and Taiwan lawyers are welcome to work in Shanghai and serve as legal counsel in Chinese mainland law firms.