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The "Greater Bay Area" refers to the Chinese government's scheme to link the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing into an integrated economic and business hub.
Hong Kong professionals will find it easier to operate in the economic zone, and easing of investment restrictions will help revive economies in the city and mainland China.
Over the past two years, there have been more signs that Hong Kong’s political elite are driving an increasing mainlandisation, chipping away at the city’s distinctive status and advantages.
Relaxed conditions on land exchanges should boost Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis project and extension of land premium scheme is also welcome.
Series of government proposals, including developing city as green shipping hub, aims to restore leading international position.
First batch of second officers under Cathay Pacific initiative will lift city as it returns to its pre-pandemic status.
- Idea mooted as part of plan to ease city’s ballooning deficit amid trend of residents spending in mainland China
- Economists, politicians say the proposal ‘sends the wrong signal’ and that there are other ways for government to raise revenue, trim budget deficit
Insider says talks between Beijing’s top man in Hong Kong and Guangdong officials produce push for stronger connections along lines of infrastructure, rules and regulations.
The 18-storey BEA Tower, built at a cost of US$196 million, houses the bank’s Qianhai branch, innovation centre and data lab. The 105-year-old lender is targeting wealth management and fintech in the bay area.
Local authorities are currently in talks with counterparts across the border to bring back multiple-entry visa scheme for Shenzhen residents before Lunar New Year.
Potential US rate cuts this year will redirect capital to Asia, boost the yuan and create demand for yuan products, Standard Chartered’s John Thang says. Hong Kong’s efforts to promote family offices and the investment migration scheme will act as catalysts.
Readers discuss the concern over the Hong Kong consumption lost to Shenzhen, and a dearth of taxis at China Hong Kong City.
Residents catch cross-border buses and sign up for shopping spree tours to visit Sam’s Club outlet in Qianhai, buoyed by bargain prices and strong Hong Kong dollar.
Readers discuss the reality of learning English in Hong Kong, the city’s competitive edge in the data-driven economy, and why Hong Kong has to up its education game.
Average of 1,800 people a month visit time capsule border town Sha Tau Kok, largely closed off since 1950s, since it reopened 18 months ago.
Stores could further drain customers away from Hong Kong retailers and replicating the big box stores in city may be impossible, given land and logistics costs.
Chief executive cites cities’ complementary strengths: Dongguan in hi-tech manufacturing, Hong Kong in connecting the Greater Bay Area to the world.
Day trips between city and mainland in both directions are becoming more common and the authorities must ensure that everything possible is done to accommodate ease of movement
Readers discuss a change Hong Kong should implement, drug dangers, and recycling education.
Twynam Funds Management, an asset-management company owned by one of the richest families in Australia, is looking for investment targets in Hong Kong for a new fund focused on cutting carbon emissions.
Vast room’ for links with San Francisco and New York City bay areas, head of Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries says.
The soon-to-be-launched enhancements to the Wealth Management Connect scheme are set to boost sales and capital flows in the Greater Bay Area development zone, Hong Kong’s biggest banks said.
Exhibition at Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Kowloon Park brings together 170 exhibits dating from Western Han dynasty to present day.
Hong Kong’s business community is set to turbocharge plans to capitalise on the city’s initiatives to be one of the world’s top wealth centres and talent hubs, while eyeing growth in the wider bay area too, Post survey finds.
Consul General Kenichi Okada says in exclusive Post interview that he remains optimistic about future business ties.
Chief Secretary Eric Chan also pledges to get more enterprises in Shenzhen’s Qianhai Cooperation Zone to expand overseas via Hong Kong.
‘Unprecedented level of pessimism’ among principals, says So Ping-fai, new chairman of Subsidised Primary Schools Council.
The state-controlled conglomerate joined forces with Hong Kong’s New World Development on a venture worth US$1.28 billion in the city’s Northern Metropolis mega project, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Hong Kong’s Economic and Trade Office in the province says it has reached out to victims and their families.
