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Joint Working Group Meeting on Marine Science and Technology Cooperation between the State Oceanic Administration and the Hong Kong Observatory

6 November 2025

A five-member delegation from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), led by Mr Wang Antao, Deputy Director-General of the International Cooperation Department (Marine) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of China, attended the Seventh Joint Working Group Meeting on Marine Science and Technology Cooperation at the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) on 30 October 2025.

Discussions at the meeting covered a wide range of areas of cooperation including the joint setup of marine observation platform, forecast and early warning of marine hazards like storm surge, tsunami and etc., operation of the Backup South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (Hong Kong), sea level study, data and technology sharing, as well as development of marine weather service for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. After the meeting, the delegation toured the meteorological facilities at the HKO Headquarters and the tide stations at Tai Po Kau and Tsim Bei Tsui to learn more about the latest development of HKO in marine meteorology.

The joint working group meeting is held biennially to follow up the progress on the discussion items and discuss the future work. It is held under the framework of the Agreement on Cooperation in Marine Science and Technology first signed between HKO and SOA in 2007 and later updated in 2012.


Group photo of the participants of the Seventh Joint Working Group Meeting on Marine Science and Technology Cooperation
Dr Chan Pak-wai, Director of the Hong Kong Observatory (middle, front row), Mr Wang Antao, Deputy Director-General of the International Cooperation Department (Marine) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of China (third from left, front row), and the participants of the Seventh Joint Working Group Meeting on Marine Science and Technology Cooperation took a group photo.

Tsim Bei Tsui Tide Station
On 30 October 2025, the HKO’s staff gave a tour of the Tsim Bei Tsui Tide Station to the delegation from the State Oceanic Administration, and also introduced the remote-sensing water level gauges being tested at the site.