NPC deputy Michael Tien gave an exclusive TV interview to China.org.cn in which he expressed his strong confidence in China's economic development in 2009 and stressed the important role of the high-quality service industry in reviving the economy in the Pearl River Delta region.

Deputy Tien is the chairman of the G2000 Group, the chairman of the Hong Kong Employees Retraining Board and the chairman of the Hong Kong Standing Committee on Language Education and Research.

Q5. Donald Tsang said earlier this year that 2009 would be the most difficult for Hong Kong? What do you think? How hard have the banks in Hong Kong and Macao been hit by the global financial crisis?

(China.org.cn by Wang Ke March 12, 2009)