Former officials: Hong Kong needs to cooperate with Southeast Asian countries to intro

Former officials of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region believe that Hong Kong's economic model is too narrow and needs to cooperate with Southeast Asian countries to introduce talents and funds.

Chen Jiaqiang, former director of the Hong Kong Finance and Economics and Treasury Bureau, said on Sunday (August 13) on the Hong Kong commercial program that Hong Kong's economic model is too narrow, Hong Kong needs to re -position, and it cannot be too dependent on US funds. AsiaIt will be one of the important sectors of the world economy. Hong Kong needs to cooperate with Southeast Asian countries to introduce talents and funds.

Chen Jiaqiang, who is currently a professor at the Business School of the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, believes that talents are more important than money, and emphasize that it is necessary to strengthen attracting talents to Hong Kong, attract students in Southeast Asian countries to go to Hong Kong to enhance school, establish emotional foundation with Hong Kong. At the same timeAttract the talents and enterprises in Europe and the United States, and believe in the diversification of Hong Kong's life, and have conditions to attract talents to invest and live in Hong Kong.

He also believes that the economic growth in Hong Kong in the second quarter is worse than expected, which is affected by the peripheral environment. In Europe and the United States, the interest rate hikes and the Russian and Ukraine war have reduced global trade volume and consumer demand, affecting the economic recovery of Hong Kong.However, as the US interest rate will be in the future, it is believed that the growth of the Hong Kong economy in the second half of the year will be ideal.

The official data of Hong Kong shows that the local economy has grown 1.5%year -on -year in the second quarter of this year, which is lower than the 3.5%forecast of economists.

Chen Jiaqiang believes that the United States will prohibit local funds from investing in high -tech, including Hong Kong, which will affect the Hong Kong economy, and say that US funds are currently considering Sino -US relations, and investment in China is cautious.The situation is that there will be no US funds to Hong Kong.

He also said that Hong Kong can expand funds in other regions, and assist in high -quality companies in mainland China to go public in Hong Kong, develop a good stock market, and believe that as long as they have money, they will re -examine the Hong Kong market.