China News Service, February 18. According to Hong Kong's Sing Tao Network, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Paul Chan, published a blog today (18th), saying that the development of green technology has provided more feasible solutions for the global green transformation. Related The services, equipment and products are constantly innovating, describing the development of the green technology industry as bringing huge opportunities and becoming an important part of economic growth. He also pointed out that Hong Kong has gathered many green technology companies and talents, as well as a lot of green funds and finance. products, and believes that Hong Kong has considerable advantages to develop into an "international green technology and financial center."
Data map: Paul Chan Mo-po, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Photo by China News Service reporter Li Zhihua
Paul Chan Mo-po said that in order to better promote cross-sector interaction in the development of green technology and green finance and give full play to Hong Kong's role as an international platform, the SAR government will hold the first "Hong Kong Green Week" at the end of this month, and will hold the "Hong Kong Green Technology Forum 2024" ” and a series of roundtable forums, dozens of start-up companies engaged in cutting-edge green technology research and development will showcase their technologies and products.
As for green finance, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will co-organize the three-day "Asia-Pacific Climate Business Forum" with the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. The forum will bring together political and business leaders and industry representatives from the Asia-Pacific region to conduct in-depth discussions on various important issues in the green transformation. financial issues.
Paul Chan continued that whether it is green technology, green finance or overall innovation and technology development, Hong Kong and the sister cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have opportunities for coordinated development and mutual assistance, describing this as the advantage and potential of the Bay Area.
Chan Mao-po also said that today happens to be the 5th anniversary of the release of the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area". During this period, collaboration throughout the Bay Area has made great progress. "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect 2.0" will be officially launched on the 26th. In addition to increasing personal investment limits, In addition to expanding the scope of eligible products, it also provides greater policy space in cross-border sales and promotion to facilitate the cross-border diversified allocation of assets by residents of the three places. He said that these collaborations and developments will bring more development opportunities to the Hong Kong industry, It will also better benefit Bay Area residents.