Winners recognised for innovation in green tech, smart catering, digital marketing

InnoClub Awards celebrates three pioneering start-ups

New Spain-Hong Kong Business Association joins the Forum for the first time

Hong Kong Forum assembles business leaders from 30 countries and regions

A clip-on camera provides an audio description of what it captures

Wearable for visually impaired readies for launch

New reforms aim to strengthen city’s international hub status, among many other areas

Policy Address highlights innovation and excellence for Hong Kong

Finance company uses Hong Kong success to aid enterprises expand along Belt and Road

Asia’s World City: A hub for global expansion

Annual event attracted thousands for deal-making opportunities

Belt and Road Summit wraps up in Hong Kong

The Mainland China e-commerce market has been the world’s largest online retail market for 11 consecutive years, with online retail sales surpassing RMB15 trillion last year, an 11% year-on-year increase.

Hong Kong products make their mark in the world’s largest online retail market

Shopping Festival helps Hong Kong SMEs expand into the mainland via e-commerce

Later this week, Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive John Lee will lead a business delegation to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the final stop on a three-nation ASEAN mission.

An HKTDC-organised delegation will visit one of the city’s top trading partners in Southeast Asia.

Hong Kong reaches out to Vietnam

On the second stop of a three-nation ASEAN mission to boost bilateral ties, the Hong Kong delegation led by Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive John Lee will visit Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh.

Business leaders will discuss opportunities in digital economy, sustainability in ASEAN state.

Hong Kong delegation explores Cambodia

Earlier this year, the HKTDC and Zhaoqing Municipal Commerce Bureau signed an MoU to establish the Zhaoqing GoGBA Hong Kong business support centre to provide more local support to Hong Kong businesses interested in developing in Zhaoqing.

HKTDC GoGBA support centre plugs into city’s F&B development drive.

Zhaoqing boosts food business

In June, a globe-spanning delegation, led by HKTDC Executive Director Margaret Fong, met with Zhejiang government and business leaders in Hangzhou to strengthen bilateral cooperation and highlight Hong Kong’s strengths and advantages as a business platform.

HKTDC delegates drawn from across the globe visit Hangzhou to write a new chapter on cooperation.

Hong Kong, Zhejiang look ahead

The high-tech manufacturing industry in Guangxi Autonomous Region increased its added value by 8.3% last year and the scale of the digital economy exceeded RMB1 trillion (US$138 billion) as the transformation of economic driving forces accelerated.

Fast-growing, innovative region seeks to expand its role as a strategic partner of the world-reaching arena.

Hong Kong boosts Guangxi’s GBA role

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is attracting attention across the world and there are many moves to integrate the field with western medicine.

Government, industry, academia and research support the application of traditional medicine in modern treatment.

TCM, western medicine blend

The vast e-commerce market in Mainland China is unique as well as enormous, posing a challenge for Hong Kong SMEs that want to tap access it.

Hong Kong SMEs have a chance to learn how to monetise mainland e-commerce traffic.

Opening vast cross-border market

According to the 2024 Global Hepatitis Report by the World Health Organization, viral hepatitis is the second leading infectious cause of death globally – resulting in 1.3 million deaths per year and an average of 3,500 lives a day.

Healthtech pioneer launches a 10-million scans drive at the HKTDC’s Asia Summit on Global Health.

Liver campaign aims to extend lives

Consumer goods makers in Hong Kong are eager to expand into the massive Mainland China market.

Pavilion at Consumer Goods Expo showcases distinctive products and brands.

Hainan has taste of Hong Kong style

The InnoClub integrated platform for SMEs, jointly run by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Hang Seng Bank, launched its Start-up GBA Study Tour programme last month.

InnoClub’s visit to the region shows start-ups, SMEs opportunities in AI, robotics and more.

Entrepreneurs on fast-track for GBA opportunities

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) visited Dublin last month to better understand the business environment in Ireland, explore cooperation opportunities and promote Hong Kong’s unique advantages.

The HKTDC strengthens links between Hong Kong and Ireland, a leading food producer and technology powerhouse.

Pearl meets Emerald

A Hong Kong pet-themed clothing brand with design as its selling point applied for trademark registration with the assistance of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council's (HKTDC) Transformation Sandbox (T-box) business support programme.

The HKTDC’s T-box turns pet-themed ink-brush paintings into a brand.

Pet art meets fashion

With the opening of two more GoGBA business support centres in Huizhou and Zhaoqing, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council now has physical support offices in all nine mainland cities of the vibrant and rapidly growing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Launches expand HKTDC’s physical presence to all nine mainland cities in the GBA.

New GoGBA support centres opened in Huizhou and Zhaoqing

As digital technologies and e-commerce mature, retailers and shoppers alike are showing great interest in the consumer-centred online-merge-offline (OMO) strategy.

Retailers are dropping the either-or mindset, when considering online and offline.

OMO integrates physical, virtual markets

Celebrating two new years just a month apart, Hong Kong is always awash with comments about the coming year in January and February and 2024 is no exception. This year two words appear in every comment: “change” and “uncertainty”.

Hong Kong is well positioned to move ahead in an unpredictable and fast-changing world.

Thriving in uncertain times

Hong Kong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) will be at the epicentre of a world that sustainably brings prosperity to its population.

Renowned economist Sachs sees the dynamic region as a world leader in technological development.

GBA wins vote of confidence

As innovation and technology advance in leaps and bounds across the world, artificial intelligence is having an impact on our daily lives.

Underlying the growing reach of smart solutions, two Start-up Express International winners brought intelligent solutions to the kitchen and factory.

AI makes mark in kitchens, factories

Debate is raging around the ethics and prospects for AI, but the field is proving a boon for at least one group – Hong Kong’s exporters.

Demand for electronics components boosts anticipated growth of 4-6%.

Exporters turn bullish on AI prospects

Financial services are central to Hong Kong’s economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s GDP and it is one of the biggest financial centres in the world.

A cornerstone of Hong Kong’s economy, finance is being enhanced, rather than threatened, by digital and green innovation.

Digital promise for financial services

Braillic is targeting 1,000 procedures using its ArNav system by the end of next year

Hong Kong medtech start-up markets AR-assisted surgery

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