FHKI Seminar on Bay Area Soar by Innovation and Industrial Upgrading Opportunities (大灣創新騰飛, 工業升級良機)

The Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) organized a seminar on Bay Area Soar by Innovation and Industrial Upgrading Opportunities (大灣創新騰飛, 工業升級良機) on 13^th Feb 2018.  I registered from Hong Kong Federation of Innovative Technologies and Manufacturing Industries (FITMI) WeChat group and thanks Mr. Audy Lui invitation.  I met CityU EngD cohort Dr. Sunny Chai and we took a group photo with SEEM cohort and FITMI friends.  

(Left: I, Mr. Alex Zhong (Director, SME Funding Service, Xela Innovation Limited) (SEEM), Dr. Sunny Chai (Vice Chairman, FHKI) and Mr. Teddy Chui (Managing Director, Super Label Production))

Before the seminar, I took a photo with Mr. MY Wong (Chairman, ASTRI).

In the beginning, Mr. Jimmy Kwok (Chairman, FHKI) gave a welcome speech.  Mr. Kwok introduced the guest speaker Prof. Tieniu Tan (譚鐵牛) that he received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1984, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Imperial College London, U.K., in 1986 and 1989, respectively.  Details please visit Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science at http://www.cripac.ia.ac.cn/irds/People/tnt.html .

Group photo with all FHKI representatives and guests

Prof. Tieniu Tan (譚鐵牛) firstly shared his background that he studied university in 1980 and graduated in 1984.   Then he went to UK for further study (1 year for MSc and 3 year for PhD).  After 13 years, he went back to China on 13^th Feb 1998 (Arrived China on 14^th Feb 1998) eventhough he had tenure post in University in UK.  He served Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science and his expertise on Iris Image Acquisition and Recognition, and Big Data. He also shared his name and proud from his parents.  Dr. Tan had two brothers and their name related to cow.  The first brother named 譚黃牛 (Cattle) and the second brother named 譚水牛 (Buffalo).  And his name related to Tractor that was more powerful.

Then Prof. Tan shared his feeling that he proud to be part of Change in China.  In National Level Strategy, Innovation and Technology Centres planned to locate in Beijing and Shanghai.  However, it would be built another one in South China under Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area.  He said FHKI had significant contribution on linking up Mainland China and Hong Kong.

During Q&A, one of guests was Prof. Tan’s classmate (Peter) brother Prof. Paul Cheung (HKU) clarified the funding from ITF and from China.  Some limitations of ITF still existed but it could be used for some cooperation projects. Paul pointed out Hong Kong R&D problem was no significant problem to be researched. We needed to join China’s R&D so as to solve big and significant problem.

Lady asked the clean energy requirement would increase their textile industry operation cost.  Prof. Tan suggested employing innovation and technology to enhance the overall productivity so as to cover such green energy cost.  

One of good suggestion from HKPC was to build Hong Kong and Shenzhen cooperation State Key Laboratory in the Bay Area. 

Finally, Prof. Tan shared the technology transfer path as follows:

Science (HK) → Technology (SZ) → Production (Pearl River Delta) → Market (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Bay Area / China / OBOR)

At the end, Mr. Jimmy Kwok (Chairman, FHKI) presented a souvenir to Prof. Tieniu Tan.

Reference:

FHKI - https://www.industryhk.org/en/

FHKI – HK Startup Council - https://www.startup.org.hk/

FITMI - http://www.fitmi.org.hk/index/index.html

20171122: Meeting with FHKI for Quality Startup - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/11/meeting-with-fhki-for-quality-startup.html

20180117: Startup Meeting with Hong Kong Startup Council and CityU - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2018/01/startup-meeting-with-hong-kong-startup.html