Chief Executive's Policy Address 2024
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Mr John Lee, announced his annual Policy Address on 16 October, entitled “Reform for Enhancing Development and Building Our Future Together”. It sets out a range of new or reinforced initiatives to enhance Hong Kong’s status as an international financial, shipping and trade centre while developing new quality productive forces to embrace changes in an innovative and flexible way.
Highlights of initiatives which would be of interests to our European friends who live, work, invest and run businesses in Hong Kong are as follows, where you may find the right opportunities and facilitation needed:
(1) Building an international gold trading market
(2) Creating a commodity trading ecosystem
(3) Promoting liquor trade
(4) Boosting green, innovation and technology industries
(5) Furthering the development of a “Headquarters Economy”
(6) Enhancing the New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme
In short, Hong Kong strives to consolidate our advantages and steers to develop high value-added professional services in areas of finance, maritime, trading, legal, etc. We will also promote integrated development of culture, sports and tourism, and foster economic diversification, aimed to build our city into a vibrant international hub for strategic enterprises and high calibre talents.
