The recent border reopening between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong has injected much-needed vitality and enthusiasm into the city’s economic development and is perceived by Hong Kong’s business communities as a start to Hong Kong’s strong comeback. Global Times reporter Zhao Juecheng (GT) conducted an exclusive interview with Paul Chan Mo-po (Chan), financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, on Wednesday. Chan talked about his expectation of Hong Kong’s rapid economic growth in 2023 following the border reopening, and the city’s plan to diversify its economic development model, as part of the efforts to weather a complicated international environment.
A medical team of the Hong Kong Children s Hospital successfully transplanted a heart donated from the mainland to a 4-month-old baby in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Saturday, achieving a historic breakthrough in the sharing of human organs for emergency medical assistance between the two places for the first time.
The principle of One Country, Two Systems is the biggest advantage for the development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Kent Lyu, regional director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) for Eastern and Central China, told the Global Times at the ongoing China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai.
An art exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong s return to the motherland kicked off at the city s Sky 100 Hong Kong Observation Deck on Saturday.
After Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997, such cultural influences changed from one way into two ways. People from both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, born in the 1990s and the 2000s, feel such changes and fusion from increasing traditional Chinese events to mainstream blockbusters like those by Hong Kong director Hark Tsui s The Taking of Tiger Mountain and Dante Lam s Operation Red Sea.