Chuanguan Think Tank | What does Hong Kong mean for Sichuan?

Kawaguan Think Tank Researcher Xiong Xiaowei Li Yuanli

What does Hong Kong mean for Sichuan?

Important partners in the fields of the largest source of foreign capital, the "springboard" of Unicom world, trade and financial logistics and other fields ... These traditional impression are right. However, under the background of accelerating the evolution of the world's unreasonable changes and the national "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan", the new positioning of Hong Kong development is clear, we believe that it is necessary to examine the significance of this international city to Sichuan again. Questions need to be distinguished, some changes need to be clarified.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the return of the motherland in Hong Kong, Sichuan Guan think tank interviewed relevant experts and officials in Sichuan and Hong Kong around this topic.

This is the Hong Kong Victoria Port in Hong Kong on June 25. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang Photo

Traditional characters will not weaken due to the external environment

Helping Sichuan enterprises "go global", Hong Kong's "super contact person" role will be enhanced

Seven years ago, the Hong Kong Investment Promotion Agency Lai Rong was promoted. The person in charge of the agency enthusiastically introduced to the Sichuan Enterprise of the Taiwan: Hong Kong is your "super contact person" to your international.

This is not an empty words. Regardless of whether it is introduced by foreign investment or Sichuan enterprises and Sichuan goods, Hong Kong has played a role in helping Sichuan to communicate internally and outside the "super contact" role for a long time. Public information shows that more than 6,000 Hong Kong companies have settled in Sichuan so far. The 38 Sichuan enterprises were listed in Hong Kong with a total market value exceeding 100 billion yuan.

But now there are some unstable and uncertain factors in the international situation. At the same time, the level and capabilities of many coastal cities have been greatly improved. Some people question: For inland provinces like Sichuan, Hong Kong's "super contact person" role Will it be weakened or even replaced?

Yuan Shiping, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Economic Research Center of Sun Yat -sen University, has in -depth research on this and submitted a special report to the relevant departments. His answer was: No.

There are at least two reasons: one is that from the perspective of function, the uniqueness of Hong Kong has not changed fundamentally. Liberty Port, independent customs areas, free funds enter and exit, simple and low tax systems ... These are the institutional advantages established for the "one country, two systems" and for the Hong Kong Basic Law. Because the rules are different, the law system is different -Hong Kong law is the normal law department, and the mainland is the mainland law system, which must have its own advantages. " Essence Yuan Shiping sorted out major market indicators such as bond transactions, financial asset transactions, and IPO financing in Hong Kong in recent years, and found that basically maintained a steady growth. Public information shows that Sichuan Enterprise Tianqi Lithium is expected to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July, or it has become the largest IPO fundraising in Hong Kong so far this year.

Zhou Wengang, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a director of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, mentioned in an interview with the Sichuanoku Think Tank that "the past experience tells us that the more complicated the external environment, the more Hong Kong is needed as a 'super contact person'." He and Guangdong and Guangdong Chen Guanghan, chairman of the Provincial Innovation Strategic Research Association and the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government Decision Consultation Expert, and He Jianzong, director of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, expressed the same view to Chuanguan think tank: Hong Kong's traditional characters will not weaken, but will be enhanced.

Starting from the demand dimension in Sichuan, Sheng Yi, a researcher at the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, also agreed with this judgment. He believes that in the past, Hong Kong was more to help Sichuan "introduce" and introduce foreign companies. However, with the deepening of opening up, Sichuan companies will accelerate the "going global" to develop the international market, thereby promoting a significant increase in demand for high -end business services in Hong Kong, thereby increasing the value and significance of Hong Kong's role. A person in charge of the Hong Kong Trade Development Agency shared his emotional perspective to Chuanguan Think Tank. "We are very busy now! Many mainland companies are looking for me every day, and the requirements are getting higher and higher. Help them go public in Hong Kong, go overseas for mergers and acquisitions, layout the industrial chain ... Too many needs, push us forward. "

Starting from the demand dimension in Hong Kong, Yuan Shiping added that Sichuan has played a strategic fulcrum in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. And when the marine trade is facing challenges, more and more Hong Kong companies are willing to rely on the layout of Sichuan to the west of land channels for diversified risks, and they are willing to better adapt to the Sichuan market, thereby further promoting the two -way force of Sichuan and Hong Kong, realizing their advantages Complement.

Fang Zhou, the research director of the "one country, two systems" research center in Hong Kong, said that Hong Kong has a large number of professionals in terms of financial accounting law arbitration and other aspects that can provide Sichuan services. It is recommended to learn from the pilot exploration experience in coastal areas such as Guangdong, and promote the qualification certification of relevant professionals in Hong Kong, so that it can practice locally in Sichuan. It can currently test in the free trade pilot zone in the province.

New changes will give Sichuan -Hong Kong cooperation with new content

Hong Kong is expected to become the entrance and partner of the advanced productivity of the Greater Bay Area and the development of the science and technology industry

If the "super contact person" is good for the unchanged part of Sichuan and Hong Kong cooperation, there will be some new contents of the opposite side. The underlying logic behind this is the change and development of Hong Kong itself.

On the one hand, Hong Kong is developing from a single city to urban agglomeration. Many interviewed experts mentioned that creating the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area is to explore the free flow of factors such as "one country, two systems, three customs areas, and three currencies". As one of the central cities of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong will obtain a vast hinterland that can be directly radiated, and then integrate it into the overall national development situation.

In this case, Fang Zhou believes that Sichuan and Hong Kong cooperation will not only be the cooperation between the province and one city, but the two -way cooperation between the Sichuan and the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, and even the Shuangcheng Economic Circle of Chengdu and the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. Injection well in Hong Kong is to find the entrance to the advanced productivity and innovative production factors of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. On the other hand, Hong Kong is transforming from traditional relying on finance and trade to "trade+finance+scientific and technological innovation". Hong Kong has a group of world -class universities and scientific research resources, but it is not good for the development of the science and technology industry. Huang Dong, Executive Vice President and Secretary -General of the Hong Kong Sichuan General Chamber of Commerce, noticed that in the national "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" plan, it first proposed to support Hong Kong to build an international innovation technology center. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government also clearly regards technology as an important driving force for future economic development.

As a Sichuan native living in Hong Kong, Tang Yang, a director of the Hong Kong Huajing Association, recently inspected several Hong Kong scientific and technological innovation projects. Technical science and technology team. There are also environmental and policies that can continue to attract talents in the local area, with international antenna and complete intellectual property protection. There are few fields. "

Many interviewees mentioned that Sichuan Port is advised to take scientific and technological innovation as an important force for future cooperation. Specific to the operational level, a topic has been repeatedly talked about: Can Sichuan -Hong Kong cooperation copy the "DJI model" to some extent? (That is to promote organic integration of Hong Kong science and technology resources, capital and marketing capabilities with the Mainland manufacturing capabilities, human resources and market space)

In this regard, Tang Yang believes that first of all, we must deepen understanding. "When it comes to cooperation with the Mainland, many entrepreneurs in Hong Kong can think of is Shenzhen. We need to make the information more transparent, telling them that in addition to Shenzhen, the Mainland, such as Chengdu and surrounding areas, also It will be a good choice, and there will be a local comparative advantage. "Yuan Gangping further suggested that Sichuan can learn from Shenzhen and other places. In terms of government support, the" primary phase "of providing preferential policies and improving the business environment And to provide a series of key services to Hong Kong startups, including helping to find and integrate upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, help introduce strategic investment, etc., to attract Hong Kong teams and startups to land in Sichuan.

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