Cross-border sailing expected to start soon between Hong Kong and Chinese waters
Private boats will be able to enter Guangdong waters

A Hong Kong businessman operating a marina in a pilot development zone in Guangzhou expects a cross-border sailing scheme for private vessels suggested by Guangdong authorities to take effect soon.
Ian Fok Chun-wan said he hoped power boats and yachts would soon be able to travel freely between Hong Kong and Nansha .
This is not possible now because of legal restrictions.
"I think it is mainly because there is no clear regulation [on what foreign yacht-owners] should do [if they want to enter Chinese waters]," Fok, chief executive of the Fok Ying Tung Group and former chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, said. "It seems that they have to go through customs and so on."
Fok was in a delegation of Hong Kong businessmen and academics who attended a forum in the zone yesterday with Guangdong officials on stepping up cross-border integration.
Deputy head of Nansha's district government Raymond Sun Lei, who attended the forum, confirmed there had been discussion among Guangdong officials on the idea.
Yu Yunzhou, deputy director of Guangdong's Development and Reform Commission, echoed Sun's remark, adding: [Officials] tend to support the proposal but it takes time."