THE Sino-British Infrastructure Co-ordinating Committee will set up four panels to harmonise infrastructure development in the Pearl River Delta.
The decision came after the body's first plenary session in Guangzhou yesterday.
The four panels will deal with rail links; roads and bridges; air traffic control; and marine channels.
The Chinese team leader, the economics chief of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Zhang Liangdong, said the function of the committee and its panels was to co-ordinate and reach consensus on cross-border projects before both sides 'take their own action'.
The leader of the British team, Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Tony Eason, said the specialists sitting on the panels would compare notes on specific planning issues and projects.
He said the panels would provide a focus which would indicate whether feasibility studies were required and by whom they should be done.
