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1. Publicity and explanation of the Basic Law is important to the collection of opinions. Regarding the publicity programmes for this round of consultations, the CCBL having benefited from last year's experience in the first round of consultations continued to adopt some of the more effective forms of publicity. It has also improved and supplemented these forms in accordance with the characteristics and conditions of this round of consultations to achieve better results.

2. The themes of publicity in this round of consultations are:

3. On 26 February, the CCBL held a press conference to brief the press on the distribution of copies of the Basic Law (Draft) and on the consultation, and to call on the public to take this final opportunity to express their views.

4. Printing and distributing the Basic Law (Draft)

4.1 The CCBL was entrusted by the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law with the responsibility of printing and distributing copies of the Basic Law (Draft), both in Chinese (in traditional Chinese characters) and English, in Hong Kong.