{"id":174407,"date":"2026-08-02T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174407"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:52:11","slug":"infrastructure-boost-needed-for-northern-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174407","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Infrastructure boost needed for Northern Metropolis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1864423_1_M_20260731112809.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Financial Secretary Paul Chan has told RTHK that boosting infrastructure links between the Northern Metropolis and mainland cities is needed to strengthen connectivity within the Greater Bay Area and better leverage its geographical advantages.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on RTHK&#8217;s &ldquo;On Broadcast Drive&rdquo; programme, Chan said cross-border rail  and road links would make it easier for goods to flow from the southern and western parts of the country to Hong Kong ports&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1864423-20260731.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Secretary Paul Chan has told RTHK that boosti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}