BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

Belt and Road and Northern China: Heilongjiang, a Crucial Link in China-Russia Business

15 April 2020

Heilongjiang’s “One Window, Four Zones” strategy aims to make the province an important window for China’s “opening-up” to the north and will entail the establishment of a Heilongjiang FTZ, a pilot zone for “opening-up” along the border, a demonstration zone for cross-border economic co-operation and a logistics hub zone for Europe and Asia. The province’s capital Harbin has been earmarked as a centre for co-operation with Russia. More

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Hong Kong as the Major Service Platform for Greater Bay Area Enterprises to ‘Go Out’: 2019 GBA Survey Results

04 December 2019

Despite recent trade conflicts between China and the US, mainland enterprises in the Greater Bay Area continue to develop business in both advanced countries and Belt and Road markets. The survey results show that Hong Kong is an important service platform for such going out activities, with enormous opportunities for Hong Kong service providers to explore. More

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The Greater Bay Area: Big Logistics Solutions for a Big Market

13 November 2019

The Greater Bay Area is in the process of increasing the speed of connectivity with Belt and Road Initiative markets, particularly for trade between China and Southeast Asia. This is an increasing trend according to Austrian-headquartered logistics specialist cargo-partner. From its Hong Kong Asia Pacific management hub, the company sees supply chain digitalisation and a closer connectivity important to bring high reliability and lower costs. More

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Uzbekistan: On the Reform Path

25 September 2019

The new Uzbek government has adopted since September 2016 a number of economic liberalisation measures to restore internal and external confidence in Uzbekistan, transforming the double-landlocked Central Asian country into a more open and connected economy that works hand-in-hand with the BRI. More

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Kazakhstan: Central Asia’s Global Financial Hub

31 July 2019

Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial Centre is fast evolving as a ready connector for Central Asian enterprises to go global and foreign financial players to dip their toes in the burgeoning Central Asia market. As the international financial centre in Asia, Hong Kong is working closely with Kazakhstan in such sectors as banking and finance, legal and arbitration, start-ups, and education to turn vision into action. More

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Shanghai Firm Seeks Engineering Service Standards Connectivity to Belt and Road Markets Through Hong Kong

28 June 2019

The engineering industry in China is becoming more mature, with relevant logistics service providers also advancing constantly. Many firms are seeking overseas business opportunities, though the majority lacks relevant experience. To overcome this hurdle, some are hoping to gain international recognition by servicing construction projects in Hong Kong, in the expectation that this will help them explore overseas and Belt and Road markets. More

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Mainland Firm Uses Hong Kong Professional Services to Overcome Offshore Investment Challenges

25 June 2019

Facing the ever-complicating international economic situation, Chinese firms are encountering rigorous challenges as they develop their overseas operations. A Shanghai-based enterprise is set to strengthen its Hong Kong operation in order to better utilise the city’s high-quality professional and financial services, as well as good risk management and diversified financing channels, for consolidation of its overseas business. More

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Hong Kong as the Major Service Platform for “Going-out” Enterprises: 2019 YRD Survey Results

21 June 2019

Despite the recent trade conflict between China and the US, many Chinese enterprises are still “going out” to explore business opportunities in advanced economies and Belt and Road markets. They increasingly need professional services to support their growing international business, while tackling the corresponding challenges. Hong Kong has always been the preferred service platform for these enterprises, as revealed by the survey results. More

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The Greater Bay Area: Capitalising on Semiconductor Opportunities

19 June 2019

With its R&D, manufacturing and market focus, global semiconductor heavyweight ST Microelectronics sees huge opportunities across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with Hong Kong as the principal sales, marketing, logistics and business connector, as well as a standard bearer for the Belt and Road Initiative. More

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Biomedical Services: Linking the Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road Markets

06 May 2019

Hong Kong is a significant hub for cooperation in R&D and advanced biomedical services in the Greater Bay Area and beyond. The city can fill the gap between mainland China and overseas in the field of genetic and biomedical information. It can become a bridgehead for biomedical companies looking to extend their research and services from the Greater Bay Area to the Belt and Road and other overseas markets. More

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