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Belt and Road Summit maps new world

Business leaders from around the world descended on Hong Kong this week to map out a shared future in a world of realigning supply chains, a fourth industrial revolution and global desire to deploy sustainable technologies.

Belt and Road Trade Green tech

Watch fairs draw buyers from across globe

The watch and clock industry is an industry-of-industries, aggregating component and accessory makers as well as final product assemblers and marketers. Quality component and product makers gravitate to a handful of hubs, such as Switzerland and Hong Kong.

Watches Clocks Apparel

Roads to prosperity

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) links economies, companies and organisations across the world in a decade-old programme to innovatively fast-track development for all.

Belt and Road Services Innovation Logistics Biotech

Suez hub zone strengthens Hong Kong links

The history of world trade has usually been an evolutionary one, with ports and transport routes forming and declining over generations.

Logistics & Trans...Egypt Belt and Road Trade Investment

Hong Kong asset manager spreads wings

ASEAN is becoming an important destination for and source of investment capital from Hong Kong.

Mainland China Innovation Investment

Food producer goes from farm to table

A university-based Hong Kong start-up has rolled out a successful business strategy, bringing alternative proteins and plant-based F&B into the market, and becoming a promoter of superfood and future food.

Mainland China Green production Food Beverages

World becomes Hong Kong’s oyster

World city Hong Kong has become the world’s food capital this week, as suppliers of ingredients and cuisine from across the globe gather to the city following the end of travel restrictions.

Food & Beverages Trade Biotech

GBA opportunities knock for professionals

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), HSBC and the Greater Bay Area Business School recently organised a seminar to help service professionals enter the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), at which industry experts analysed demand for services and how individuals and firms could seize opportunities.

Hong Kong Mainland China GBA Innovation GoGBA

Renewable target hit 2 years early

Two years ago, Mainland China set 2025 as a target for half its power capacity to come from renewable resources, a landmark the economy has already reached two years ahead of schedule.

Environmental Pro...Mainland China Green energy green industry ESG

Green light for labour imports

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has announced that it will implement the Industrial Labour Importation Scheme for the construction and transport industries, with a quota of 20,000. The government will launch the scheme this month, and be reviewed within six months after its launch.

Logistics & Trans...Hong Kong Mainland China Transport Construction

Securities firm goes global through Hong Kong

Closer economic and trade development between Hong Kong and Mainland China in recent years has prompted many mainland securities companies to build a global presence through the financial hub of Hong Kong.

Finance & Investm...Hong Kong Mainland China Fintech Investment

Hong Kong, Ningbo deepen partnership

The Ningbo-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Forum 2023, jointly organised by the HKTDC and the government of Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, was held in Hong Kong last month. A Ningbo delegation comprising political and business leaders attended in-person, as the two cities explored collaborations to drive the nation’s high-quality development, as well as create new momentum for Hong Kong’s economy.

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Hong Kong, Guangdong form binary stars

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is rapidly maturing into a world-class hub for both finance and innovation-technology, leading to greater integration between Hong Kong and the nine GBA centres in Mainland China.

Finance & Investm...Hong Kong Mainland China