The government has also advised the MTR Corporation, Airport Authority and relevant airlines to enhance cleaning and disinfection on trains and airplanes arriving from Wuhan.
The government will firmly reject violence and make every effort to maintain the city's security, Lam stressed.
The government further liberalized the allowable scope of foreign investment on Sunday by shortening its negative lists, permitting more participation from foreign capital in areas such as agriculture, mining, manufacturing and services.
The government launched a huge campaign to shut down workshops operating without a business license, enlisting every government department and the public to root out any violators. Often, they inspected workshops at midnight to catch clandestine polluters red-handed.
The government plans to adopt more methods based on market rules and related laws while phasing out outdated capacity. It also decided to eliminate illegal production facilities and prevent those that have been shut down from opening again.
The government will make key national research infrastructure more accessible to the private sector and speed up measures to accredit national-level technology centers in private businesses, the statement said. It will also be easier for employees at private firms to obtain professional titles.
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The garrison law stipulates that the SAR government may, when necessary, seek the central government's assistance from the PLA Hong Kong Garrison in the maintenance of public order or in disaster relief.
The gathering is scheduled for April 6-7 and half of the participants are expected to be from China. So far, five Chinese cities - the Shunyi District of Beijing, Beichen District of Tianjin, Xuzhou, Changzhou and Nanchang - have confirmed their attendance. The organizers expect more confirmations in the coming weeks.
The global e-commerce behemoth listed its shares in New York five years ago in the world's largest public offering, raising billion in 2014 after the Hong Kong stock exchange refused Alibaba's IPO application since it did not allow dual class share sales at that time.
The four people who died when a sidewalk collapsed in Dazhou, Sichuan province, on Sunday have been identified as a newlywed couple and a father and his 11-year-old son.