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As the shifting geopolitical landscape and global economic uncertainties dominate headlines, businesses and governments around the world are keen to turn these large-scale challenges into growth opportunities while continuing to innovate.
Last month’s China Conference 2025 in Hong Kong – the latest edition of the South China Morning Post’s annual forum, featuring numerous in-depth panel discussions, closed-door and virtual sessions – examined how Hong Kong’s unique strategic advantages can help companies benefit from China’s growth potential and investment stability.
The event attracted more than 650 senior policymakers, business executives, academics, investors and innovators from the banking, technology and insurance sectors, and over 300 online viewers.
“In this era of fogged horizons, China does not just project power – it radiates investible stability,” Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said during his keynote speech. “And Hong Kong is the ‘superconnector’ and ‘super value-adder’ that links the world with opportunities from China’s growth and certainties.
“Amid an ever-changing geopolitical landscape and constantly escalating uncertainties, Hong Kong is the place that promises security and development. This certainty of security and development is precisely what a world of investors need and thirst for.”
The day-long conference with “Where Capital Meets Innovation” as its theme, saw senior journalists from the Post join guest speakers in the discussions offering insights into areas such as cross-border financial innovation, tech and artificial intelligence (or AI, computer systems that can copy intelligent human behaviour) commercialisation, medical breakthroughs and talent and trade dynamics.
