China News Service, Hong Kong, December 6th (Reporter Zhang Xiaoxi) The 24th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Seminar (Beijing-Hong Kong Fair) was held on the 6th with the theme of "integrating into the new pattern and embarking on a new journey".
A number of Hong Kong political and business guests attended the fair and expressed their hope to continue and pragmatically promote and deepen the economic and trade cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong, fully grasp the development opportunities of the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan, and achieve high-level mutual benefit and win-win results .
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam said at the opening ceremony that this year is the first year of the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Both Hong Kong and Beijing will benefit from the country’s deepened reforms, further opening up, and domestic and international dual-cycle development. Development pattern.
The cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong has a long history and deep roots. It is hoped that the two sides will seize the opportunity to jointly develop a better future, especially in deepening cooperation in higher education and innovative technology, life and health and medical care, as well as green finance and culture and art.
Lin Jianyue, Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said in a speech that China's strong economic growth in 2021 will be the biggest engine of global economic recovery.
Beijing is the capital and Hong Kong is a special administrative region under "One Country, Two Systems." As the country enters a new stage of development, Beijing and Hong Kong can deepen high-quality cooperation in different fields to serve the needs of Beijing and Hong Kong.
Lin Jianyue pointed out that under the National 14th Five-Year Plan, Beijing will speed up the construction of a comprehensive demonstration zone for the expansion of the national service industry and the Beijing Free Trade Zone. In addition to enhancing the traditional advantages of an international financial, shipping, and trade center, Hong Kong will also An international innovation and technology center and a regional intellectual property trading center will be built.
He believes that Hong Kong's professionals will certainly be able to give full play to their advantages in the process of opening up Beijing's service industry.
Beijing and Hong Kong can also strengthen exchanges of scientific and technological talents, complement each other's advantages, and jointly promote the development of scientific and technological innovation in the two places.
Yuan Wu, the chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, said that under the new era, new situation and the new development positioning of the country's 14th Five-Year Plan, Beijing and Hong Kong will have a lot of room for cooperation and development under their respective advantages.
By complementing each other's advantages, mutual benefit and win-win results can be achieved, and the country can promote high-level openness and high-quality development.
He expects that the two places will continue to "group and cooperate", build a platform for precise docking, and jointly open a new chapter in economic and trade cooperation.
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