The 25th anniversary of the return of the motherland in Hong Kong ｜ 25 years in Hong Kong: rooting in Hong Kong to help Hong Kong prosperity

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, June 18th. Title: 25 years of Chinese capital in Hong Kong: rooting in Hong Kong to help Hong Kong prosperity

Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Baitao Su Xiao

In the 25 years since the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, under the "one country, two systems", Chinese -funded enterprises in Hong Kong and Hong Kong have grown together to promote local economic construction, social development and people's livelihood improvements. develop.

Chinese -funded enterprises have a long history in Hong Kong. Older enterprises such as China Merchants, China Resources, and Hong Kong Travels, and the rising shows such as China Overseas Group, BOC Hong Kong, and China Mobile in Hong Kong are now the leaders in various fields in Hong Kong.

According to incomplete statistics, the total number of registrations in Chinese -funded enterprises and subordinate physical companies in Hong Kong has exceeded 4,000. , 78%of drinking water, 70%of fresh livestock and poultry, 52%of wheat flour, and 42%of oil and gas, the total asset size reached HK $ 14.98 trillion.

Yan Gang, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the managing director of China Merchants Port Holdings Company, told reporters that after the return of Hong Kong, Chinese -funded enterprises have been developed rapidly to help various economic development and people's livelihood construction in Hong Kong, and actively cooperate with the national and the SAR governments to respond to difficulties and crisis in crisis. It has made important contributions to Hong Kong's integration and serving the country.

As the “Belt and Road” initiative goes away, new business opportunities continue to emerge. Chinese -funded enterprises in Hong Kong are based on Hong Kong and frequently participated in global infrastructure investment construction and cross -border trade and transportation.

Yan Gang said that Chinese -funded enterprises took the lead in participating in the "Belt and Road" initiative, accelerating the flow of talents, funds, goods, technology, and information in Hong Kong, helping Hong Kong to optimize the industrial structure, and promoted Hong Kong's economic prosperity.

China Overseas Group was founded in Hong Kong in June 1979. After the return of Hong Kong, high -quality development was achieved. The compound annual growth rate of key indicators in Hong Kong since the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan" has exceeded 18%of the annual growth rate.

Benefiting from the advantages of Hong Kong's development, China Overseas Group is fully building Hong Kong. 25%of Hong Kong hospitals, 15%of public housing and 70%of the freshwater pipelines were undertaken by China Shipping Group. It is responsible for reclamation area of ​​more than 8.85 million square meters, which is equivalent to one -nineths of Hong Kong Island ...

Yan Jianguo, chairman of China Overseas Group, said that the development of China Shipping in Hong Kong has promoted local employment. The number of group employees in Hong Kong exceeds 17,000, and Hong Kong people account for more than 97%. More than 70 sites under construction cooperate with thousands of local companies in Hong Kong, and the average daily driving more than 20,000 local workers employment.

In 1997, China Mobile Hong Kong entered the market as a "personal communication service" network supplier in Hong Kong. It has always been high -speed, stable, and widely covered with high -quality network services to help Hong Kong connect the world efficiently.

Li Feng, chairman of China Mobile Hong Kong, said that China Mobile has rooted in Hong Kong and serves Hong Kong, promotes 5G into Hong Kong, and is committed to improving the status of Hong Kong's international information hub. Wisdom "driving force.

The financial industry is one of the pillar industries in Hong Kong. Statistics show that the total market value of Hong Kong stocks has increased from HK $ 3.2 trillion at the end of 1997 to the highest HK $ 58.6 trillion in 2021. As of April 2022, there were 1,370 listed companies in Hong Kong in Hong Kong, accounting for 53.3%of the total number of listed companies in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and 77.7%of the total market value of Hong Kong stocks.

After the return of Hong Kong, mainland companies landed on Hong Kong stocks. Enterprises have obtained development funds, injecting vitality of Hong Kong's economy, forming a good development situation of cooperative and complementary capital markets between the two places, and consolidating and improving the status of Hong Kong's international financial center.

Hong Kong's economic and social development is not smooth. Facing the twists and turns, Chinese -funded enterprises in Hong Kong always rush to the forefront. During the financial crisis in 2008, many foreign companies in Hong Kong withdrew their capital for layoffs, and in Hong Kong's Chinese -funded enterprises took the lead in making a promise of "no layoffs and no salary" to stabilize market confidence.

In recent years, global economic growth has slowed down, but Chinese securities firms still actively settle in Hong Kong, absorb a large number of local talents, ensure employment, boost the economy, and maintain market stability.

After the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia, more than 4,000 Chinese -funded enterprises actively responded to the "concentric resistance to resist and not layoffs", involving at least 100,000 employees.

The fifth wave of epidemic attacked Hong Kong, and Chinese -funded enterprises could do their best to help Hong Kong spend difficulties. China Architecture International quickly completed the construction of 8 central aid construction facilities for the construction of the Hong Kong community. China Merchants has successively opened the "Foshan-Hong Kong" and "Huangpu-Hong Kong" for the rapid channel for transportation in Hong Kong water roads to ensure that civil biological funds are "non-stop" for Hong Kong. Sinopec Hong Kong has established a "green channel" to provide oil and gas services for 300 "exclusive anti -epidemic" and other anti -epidemic vehicles in Hong Kong ...

Since the establishment of the Hong Kong China Enterprise Association for more than 30 years, it has coordinated and promoted Chinese -funded enterprises to carry out public welfare activities, and 16 public welfare charity funds have been established. The Association organizes more than 200 public welfare charity projects each year, focusing on the elderly, poverty alleviation, community services, and adolescent development, and benefit hundreds of thousands of people.

The "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" proposed a series of major goals, which pointed out the direction for the future development of Hong Kong and made specific deployment of deepening the cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Innovation driver is one of the key to Hong Kong's comprehensive enhancement of competitiveness in the future. In Hong Kong, China has established a joint home development fund in the Greater Bay Area with local enterprises to promote the development of Hong Kong's creation of sciences. As of now, there are more than 30 related projects in Hong Kong, with a amount of nearly 6.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and have cultivated a number of local "unicorn" enterprises.

Since last year, China Resources has reached cooperation with a number of universities and institutions. In the future, it will focus on building a new industry investment incubation platform, coordinate and coordinate the resources of "learning, research, production, and use", and actively help Hong Kong to build an international innovation technology center. Yan Gang said that in Hong Kong, Chinese -funded enterprises must give full play to the advantages of "large enterprise volume, sufficient capital strength, wide coverage industry, and excellent development resources", and find a combination point from the "needs of the country and the director of Hong Kong" to do a good job. The docking with the national strategy, the development of the Hong Kong, the integration of the industrial chain and the stickiness of the industrial chain, the inherent power mechanism of Hong Kong's economic growth, the strength of Hong Kong's economic development, and help Hong Kong's economic transformation and upgrading.

At present, the integration of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area has been accelerated. "Hard Unicom" such as road networks and customs clearance in Hong Kong and the Mainland has opened up various nodes. The "one -hour life circle" between cities has been initially formed, providing unlimited possibilities for the development of Chinese -funded enterprises and Hong Kong professional service companies.

Xiangjiang is strong, fierce. After 25 years of returning to the motherland, Hong Kong is in a critical period of governance and prosperity. Chinese capital in Hong Kong ushered in unprecedented development opportunities, and it will also help Hong Kong's prosperity to a new height.

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