Technology

This year’s Belt and Road Summit – a key platform for Hong Kong to promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is bringing together more than 80 officials and business leaders to discuss collaboration opportunities in BRI markets.

This year's SmartHK – an annual event focused on boosting connections between Hong Kong and cities in Mainland China – has successfully concluded in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province.

This year's Belt and Road Summit, bringing together senior government officials and business leaders from across the globe, will run on 11-12 September at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is boosting its development of novel productive forces, deploying the city's basic research and development capabilities and the advantages brought by its global status, and actively taking on the national development strategy.

The high-tech manufacturing industry in Guangxi Autonomous Region increased its added value by 8.3% last year and the scale of the digital economy exceeded RMB1 trillion (US$138 billion) as the transformation of economic driving forces accelerated.

The vast e-commerce market in Mainland China is unique as well as enormous, posing a challenge for Hong Kong SMEs that want to tap access it.