AI platform developed by Hong Kong start-up monitors disasters and carbon emissions

Satellite system helps tackle climate risks

The 10 Start-up Express winners, an entrepreneurship development programme organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), represented diverse sectors, ranging from healthtech and greentech to edutech and mechanical engineering.

10 winners were selected as part of the 2024 cohort of the HKTDC’s Start-up Express programme.

Strong showing by healthtech, greentech start-ups

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) this week announced its major focus areas for 2024-2025 to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as a leading global business and investment hub and C&E centre and create opportunities for Hong Kong businesses.

Boosting diverse economic development and reinforcing the city’s role as a global business and C&E hub.

HKTDC’s major focus areas promote Hong Kong’s advantages

With sustainability an increasingly critical issue across industries, firms are rapidly adopting innovative digital technologies to drive green development.

Green tech is a hot topic for Start-up Express International winners.

Digital solutions drive green transformation

The opening of Hong Kong’s first hydrogen fuelling station and debut of a hydrogen-powered public bus in the city  took place at this year’s Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference (ALMAC), a point picked up by several delegates.

This year’s ALMAC coincided with the launch of Hong Kong’s first hydrogen fuelling station.

Logistics firms seek to green fuel tanks

Financial services are central to Hong Kong’s economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s GDP and it is one of the biggest financial centres in the world.

A cornerstone of Hong Kong’s economy, finance is being enhanced, rather than threatened, by digital and green innovation.

Digital promise for financial services

The start-up network is growing and diversifying quickly, extending from traditional hotspots like San Francisco and London to rising giants, such as Hong Kong, while developing economy centres across ASEAN are becoming super-nodes in their own right.

At this year’s E-Day, we honour 10 forward-thinking innovators from around the world.

Global entrepreneurs step up

Renewable energy technology is developing at bullet-train speed in Hong Kong and Mainland China, where preparations for the upcoming COP28 United Nations Climate Change conference in the United Arab Emirates in late November are on the fast track.

Global environmental summit will be the launch pad for a sustainable development drive in developing markets.

Green finance looks to COP28

The dynamic Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has many energy-hungry industries, but firms are eager to adopt sustainable practices and opt for solutions from Hong Kong green service providers.

Hong Kong sustainability services are an attractive option for most companies in the fast-growing region.

Greater Bay Area firms see green

Sharp falls in renewable energy generator costs mean solar and wind have become the cheapest power sources in much of the world – especially in countries or regions where authorities provide subsidies.

Renewable power is cheaper than any other source; Eco Expo Asia addresses the problem of intermittent supply.

Green lights in the shade

Plant-based foods rich in sustainably sourced protein have become popular among environmentally and health-conscious consumers, creating green business opportunities.

A start-up wins laurels for its innovative technology creating plant-based chicken meals from processing residue.

Peanut waste becomes high-protein meat

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.

Forum draws 6,000 global business leaders focusing on the Middle East and a sustainable future.

Belt and Road Summit maps new world

The massive development projects in Hong Kong – Northern Metropolis (main picture) and Lantau Tomorrow Vision – will create a perfect prototyping environment for green con tech and prop tech, offering businesses ranging from start-ups to construction giants a chance to develop and deploy cutting-edge sustainable solutions for buildings and infrastructure.

Lan Kwai Fong chief Allan Zeman sees new metropolis projects as golden opportunities to deploy cutting edge sustainable technologies in construction and infrastructure.

Greenfield sites could yield green cities

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.

Hong Kong will step up collaboration with Ningbo in Zhejiang province to boost bilateral competitiveness  and drive high-quality national development.

Hong Kong, Ningbo deepen partnership

Three technologies changing life for the better

Bright lights, smart city

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