Hong Kong

The China-Britain Business Council has announced that Invest HK will join the flagship consumer event, China Consumer 2024, as a Silver Sponsor InvestHK (Invest Hong Kong) is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government Department responsible for Foreign Direct Investment. InvestHK’s vision is to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as the leading international business location in Asia. Its mission is to attract and retain foreign direct investment which is of strategic importance to the economic development …

More than four years on from the release of a major plan for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, what opportunities does one of the world’s largest economic zones offer UK businesses? The Greater Bay Area (GBA), which covers nine municipalities of Guangdong Province (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing) around the Pearl River Delta, plus the two Special Administrative Zones (SAR) of… …

As she releases her new book, Fortune’s Bazaar, author Vaudine England meets up with Paul French in Hong Kong’s famous Foreign Correspondents’ Club to discuss two centuries of Hong Kong history – from “barren rock” to colony, from handover to today With such uncertainty at present, perhaps it’s a good time to look back on the history of Hong Kong. There have certainly been books about the city’s history before –… …

Can Hong Kong bounce back from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and recover its status as one of the world’s leading aviation hubs? Or will the increasing focus on the Greater Bay Area mean cities like Zhuhai and Guangdong start to take over? Paul French speaks to academic John D. Wong to find out Times have been tough for Chep Lap Kok – Hong Kong International Airport. Passenger numbers… …

One year on from the National Security Law, how well is China balancing its desire to incorporate Hong Kong fully into the Greater Bay Area (GBA) with allowing the city to remain the financial capital of Asia? Writes Joe Cash The Hong Kong National Security Law (NSL) provoked considerable conversation when introduced by China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) in June 2020. Spooked by its seemingly sudden introduction, foreign business leaders… …

China’s major political meetings – the ‘Two Sessions’ or ‘Lianghui’ – closed on Thursday. This year’s National People’s Congress – four days shorter than normal and delayed until May due to the pandemic – had two big items on the agenda: the new Civil Code and the decision to enact national security laws for Hong Kong. The latter move has attracted most attention in the foreign media, owing to its …

Mabel Liu is a corporate lawyer focusing on cross-border and international mergers and acquisitions. She has 40 years of experience advising clients on Sino-foreign joint ventures having worked on China’s first modern JV in 1979. Tom pattinson quizzes her on the Greater Bay Area TP: Can you introduce yourself, where you were born, grew up and educated? ML: I am a mother of three sons, born and raised in Hong …

By Tom Pattinson Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles graduated from Oxford and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1977. He had tours in Cairo, Washington, and Paris, served as head of the Foreign Office’s Hong Kong Department of the Foreign Office for three years in the run-up to the handover in 1997, and was Ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. He also served as Principal Private Secretary to Robin …

Artists are being forced into picking a side when it comes to the Hong Kong demonstrations and sadly, whichever way they go, they can only lose, writes Tom Pattinson For centuries, performers, musicians and artists have used their voices to showcase injustice, high-light inequality and to rebel against the system. Entire genres of music have been created through it, from the American slaves who created blues, the anti-establishment Brits who …

Fei-Ling Wang, Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and expert on China’s megacities explains the pros and cons of creating these new urban city groups   To sustain continued, robust economic growth – something of crucial importance to its legitimacy and stability – the Chinese government has lately employed a bold stimulus plan of “city grouping” (chengshiqun), the creation of a few megacities by integrating groups… …