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Rafael Hui, the chief secretary and second-ranking official here, said that he would lead a new committee to study how Hong Kong might still find a way to build a cultural district on the government's favored location in West Kowloon. Mr. Hui said at a news conference that the government was withdrawing its request for proposals after developers declined to submit bids meeting the government's new requirements. Mr. Hui, using a traditional Chinese saying that it is sometimes necessary during a journey to repack and remount a horse, insisted that he had not given up on the project and that his new committee would report back in September. Rafael Hui, the chief secretary and second-ranking official here, said that he would lead a new committee to study how Hong Kong might still find a way to build a cultural district on the government's favored location in West Kowloon, a 104-acre peninsula of reclaimed land in the heart of Hong Kong's famous harbor. Mr. Hui said at a news conference that the government was withdrawing its request for proposals after developers declined to submit bids meeting the government's new requirements. Mr. Hui, using a traditional Chinese saying that it is sometimes necessary during a journey to repack and remount a horse, insisted that he had not given up on the project and that his new committee would report back in September.