Earlier claimed to go to Hong Kong to set up a family office, "Prince Dubai", Sheikh Ali Al Maktoum, and his identity was questioned for several days.A Hong Kong media quoted the political and business circles on Friday, saying that Prince Ali suddenly had a plan to post and leave Hong Kong, which was related to the attitude of the Hong Kong government.
The starting storm originated from Ali, a member of the UAE's Dubai family. It was originally scheduled to open a family office in Hong Kong on March 28 to manage its 500 million US dollars (S $ 674 million) assets;Announce Extended activities , which caused various types, triggers various typesGuess.A few days ago, Hong Kong media revealed that Prince Ali I was a singer in the Philippines .
Ming Pao on Friday (April 5) quoted the political and business circles that Prince Ali suddenly left Hong Kong and was related to the attitude of the Hong Kong government, including the original with the chief executive Li Jiachao for a while.Chen Maobo, the director of the Secretary of the Secretary, dropped to the deputy director of the Financial Affairs and the Treasury Bureau, Chen Haozhen, and then dropped to the Director of the Investment Promotion Department. In the end, the director did not attend, making Prince Ali feel that he was indignant to leave Hong Kong.
Another news pointed out that the opening ceremony was mainly invited by Shen Yunlong, the president of the Hong Kong Middle East Economic and Trade Association, but Shen "could not invite people", which led to the appearance of Shen and Ali, and Ali decided to cancel the opening ceremony.
The Hong Kong government sources quoted by Ming Pao said that people from all over the world are welcome to go to Hong Kong to set up a family office without asset restrictions.Ali manages $ 500 million, and the Hong Kong government is naturally welcome, but even if it is 100 million or even 50 million, the Hong Kong government is welcomed.He refused to evaluate the opportunity to invest in Ali to invest in Hong Kong, but said that the Hong Kong government still regarded Ali as a potential customer in Hong Kong. The Investment Promotion Department also continued to contact Ali's private offices and welcomes him to set up a family office in Hong Kong.
Sources said that the incident caused the storm on the Internet to "have no wind and waves", questioning that there was political operations behind it, and someone took the opportunity to "sing" Hong Kong.He pointed out that even if Ali and partners performed high -profile performance this time and increased business negotiation opportunities through public publicity, it was also a common phenomenon of business society.But he was worried that the storm would affect Hong Kong's reputation, especially most of the family offices were very low -key, and worried that he would "scare people".
Shen Yunlong confirmed in an interview with the radio on Friday that many officials of the Hong Kong Government had already promised to attend the opening ceremony, but later "many things happened", some officials were sick, and it made people feel that officials attended "downgraded".He said that he could not speak on behalf of Prince Ali, and did not know if the other party would feel "uncomfortable", but it was normal to describe officials that failed to take time and would not have any disputes.
Shen Yunlong said that the association was not the organizer of the opening ceremony, but just assisted the guests and the media, as well as one of the members of the association, Mai Yirui of the Middle Tang Kongkong Railway to know Prince Ali.Some people told the incident as a conflict of interest and many criticisms. Therefore, he recently issued a statement clarifying that Prince Ali was not that some of them were to cheat Hong Kong people.
The Hong Kong Government spokesman responded on Friday that the government did not invest in the family office opened in Hong Kong, nor would it provide any additional policy preferential treatment or money funding.The procedures for establishing a family office are not different from other general Hong Kong companies, and they must also meet the relevant requirements of general law, tax and compliance reports.Generally speaking, if a single family office does not operate securities and futures regulations in Hong Kong to stipulate the business of regulatory activities, there is no need to apply for the CSRC license.
Li Zhaobo, a honorary teaching and researcher at the Institute of Asia -Pacific Business and Industry, Chinese University of Business School, believed that in a joint visit to Lianhe Zaobao, in recent years, the Chinese and American games have been fierce in recent years, and the Hong Kong Government has actively developed the Middle East and Asian Square markets.This incident reflects the official urgent chapters. After many basic situations, they are rushed to be implemented without fully understanding. As a result, problems are prone to problems.
He pointed out that Argentina star Messi visited Hong Kong earlier, suspected to have made a storm due to contract issues; coupled with the Hong Kong government's launch of garbage levy plans, it also encountered resistance, which made the outside world worry that the Hong Kong government would not consider the policy when promoting policies.More or less will affect overseas investors' confidence in Hong Kong.
