China News Service, Hong Kong, March 21 (Reporter Liu Dawei) The Financial Services Fujian-Hong Kong Development Cooperation Forum with the theme of "Fujian and Hong Kong's development momentum, prosperous industry and integration of the two places" was held at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the 20th.
The forum was co-sponsored by the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce and Industrial Bank, and was attended by government officials, economists, business representatives, and heads of financial institutions from both Fujian and Hong Kong.
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Lee Ka-chiu, said in his video speech that Fujian is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and has always had close relations with Hong Kong.
In the early years, many people from Fujian have immigrated to Hong Kong, making it the second largest ancestral origin of Hong Kong's population.
At the same time, Hong Kong is also the largest source of foreign investment in Fujian, and there is broad space for cooperation between the two places.
At present, the cooperation mechanism between Fujian and Hong Kong continues to mature and achieve fruitful results. It is hoped that the two places will continue to move forward hand in hand in the future and work together to create a brighter future for the cooperation between Fujian and Hong Kong.
On March 20, the Financial Services Fujian-Hong Kong Development Cooperation Forum was held in Hong Kong, co-sponsored by the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce and Industrial Bank.
The picture shows Lu Jiajin, Chairman of Industrial Bank, delivering a speech at the forum.
Photo by China News Service reporter Liu Dawei
Lu Jiajin, Chairman of Industrial Bank, said in his speech that since its establishment 36 years ago, Industrial Bank has developed from a small regional bank into a comprehensive financial services group with the help of Fujian's development and domestic economic boom.
The Hong Kong branch has also achieved rapid development in the 10 years since its establishment, with total assets exceeding HK$230 billion. It has assisted nearly 200 Fujian companies to develop in Hong Kong, and provided financing and intelligence for more than 1,500 Hong Kong companies.
Lu Jiajin said that Industrial Bank is a witness and beneficiary of the joint development of Fujian and Hong Kong and the Chinese story behind it. It needs to make greater efforts and contributions to deepen cooperation and common prosperity between Fujian and Hong Kong.
In the future, Industrial Bank will focus on five aspects of work: serving the real economy, polishing the "three business cards" of green banking, wealth banking, and investment banking, strengthening cooperation with peers, building research think tanks, and promoting talent exchanges.
During the keynote speech session, Vice Chairman of Bank of China International Holdings Limited Lin Guangzhao, Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Fujian Associations Shi Qingliu, Chairman of the Hong Kong General Association of the China Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification Yao Zhisheng, and Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council Member Yan Gang and other politicians from Fujian and Hong Kong gave speeches. Business people also expressed their opinions on how to further promote cooperation between the two places in various aspects.
Chen Xiuying, a second-level inspector of the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce, said that last year, the central government supported Fujian in building a cross-strait integrated development demonstration zone, and established two China-Indonesia and China-Philippines economic and trade innovation and development demonstration zones in Fujian to implement high-level international standards and promote institutional opening-up. The pilot project is a new opportunity for Fujian's development and enterprise investment. It is expected that Fujian and Hong Kong will strengthen industrial and economic and trade cooperation and accelerate the development of new productive forces.
In order to further deepen the deep integration between Fujian and Hong Kong in the fields of ports, cultural tourism and youth exchanges, at the forum, Fujian Port Group Co., Ltd. and China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd., Fujian Tourism Development Group and Hong Kong China Travel International Investment Co., Ltd. The company, Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School in Fujian Province and Peiqiao Middle School in Hong Kong also held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony.
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