{"id":2147,"date":"2024-10-30T01:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tradenet.hk\/b2b\/fossil-discovery-a-boon-to-hk\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T01:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:01:53","slug":"fossil-discovery-a-boon-to-hk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradenet.hk\/b2b\/fossil-discovery-a-boon-to-hk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil discovery a boon to HK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/eng\/2024\/10\/20241029\/20241029_104006_225\/images\/20241029140131095.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>(To watch the full media session with sign language interpretation, click <a>here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented discovery of dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong has sparked excitement and created an opportunity for the city to seize on the revelation to further develop tourism here, Chief Executive John Lee said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lee made the remarks before attending this morning\u2019s Executive Council meeting. Such remarks came after the dinosaur fossils, initially confirmed to be dated to the Cretaceous period, were discovered for the first time on Port Island in the Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will maintain the fossils so that they will not only help (with) research, but also help (with) developing Hong Kong as a place for us to learn more about the history of dinosaurs, and grasping this opportunity to develop it into, maybe, a tourist attraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive noted that space at the Heritage Discovery Centre has been reserved to build a workshop and stage an exhibition with the fossils as the theme.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be making use of this opportunity to develop some special tourist lines so that they can look at, first of all, the volcanic hexagonal rock columns, as well as all the other attractions of our geopark, including some exhibitions of the dinosaur fossils.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(To watch the full media session with sign language interpretation, click here.) \u00a0 The unprecedented discovery of dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong has sparked excitement and created an opportunity for the city to seize on the revelation to further develop tourism here, Chief Executive John Lee said today. \u00a0 Mr Lee made the remarks before<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradenet.hk\/b2b\/fossil-discovery-a-boon-to-hk\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[1],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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