Addressing the forum, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Hong Kong's smooth return to the motherland is a significant part of the Party's achievements made during the past century.

To enable Hong Kong people to retain as much as possible their familiar institutional setting and ways of life, the Party and the central government designed the "one country, two systems" framework, she said.

It fully demonstrated the Party's care of Hong Kong people's well-being and its people-oriented principle, Lam said.

HKSAR chief executive emphasizes CPC's support for Hong Kong's development