I (Chairman, HKSQ) was honor to be invited by China
Daily and Silk Road Economic Development Research Center (SREDRC) to
participate the 5th Greater Bay Area Conference (previously known as Belt and
Road Conference). It aims to examine how
various sectors, including financial services, trading and logistics, and
professional services, can work together to reap opportunities in the Greater
Bay Area, as well as the evolution of smart healthcare and the opportunities it
opens up across the sector and other peripheral industries. Before the conference, I took a photo with Mr.
Zhou Li (Editorial board member of the China Daily Group and editor-in-chief of
China Daily Asia Pacific) and Mr. Joseph N.K. Chan (Chairman, Silk Road
Economic Development Research Center; Principal Director & Founding
Partner, Oriental Patron Financial Group) for memory.
The venue is great! There are 29 tables.
In the beginning, a chatbot MC was talking with us.
Firstly, Mr. Zhou LI (Editorial Board Member, China
Daily Group; Publisher & Editor-in Chief, China Daily Asia Pacific) gave a
welcome remarks and introduced this conference.
Then Mr. Joseph CHAN Nap-kee (Chairman, Silk Road
Economic Development Research Center) gave a welcome speech and he said GBA
plan is initiative of Belt and Road Policy.
The Honourable Mr. C. Y. LEUNG, GBM, GBS, JP (Vice
Chairman, The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative
Conference) was the keynote speaker and he shared his view on Greater Bay Area
(GBA).
In the beginning, he reviewed the high speed
railway in Hong Kong under One-Country Two-System with high degree of autonomy in
principle for co-location inspection. That
was Policy Innovation.
Then he introduced Policy Innovation for GBA to achieve
synergy effect. The further policy
innovation needed to lower barriers of two system before market force to take
over. Another cooperation was Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, he said it could consider to increase the quota
depended on Zhuhai and Hong Kong traffic. Finally, he expected we have a good
opportunity under GBA plan in future of Hong Kong.
政策創新達至一地兩檢、大灣區若要取得成功、需要政治決心 (In English)
Panel Discussion I: “Cross-sector Business Collaboration in the Greater Bay Area”
Prof. CHEN Kwan Yiu Edward, GBS, CBE, JP (Chairman, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education) chaired this session. He said this session would discuss the cross-section cooperation in GBA including financial services, trading and logistics, and professional services, etc.
Firstly, Mr. Max YU (Chief Economist of China
Resources Capital Management Co., Ltd.) introduced background of China
Resources Group from trading to industry.
There were 41% business in GBA and the ROI in GBA was much higher than
other area. He said “Aging” was one of trend we met. Now, China needed to have high quality
development and innovation needed cross-sector cooperation. He named it as “Cross- sector
Thinking” (跨界思维).
Mr. Pantazis THERIANOS (Chief Executive Officer,
Euroterra Capital) would considered the supply chain and property. He compared
Hong Kong- Zhuhai with London-Italy and said many opportunities on tourism because
of multi-culture, cross-sector interaction.
Dr. Thomas S. T. SO (Chairman of Belt and Road
Committee and Greater Bay Area Working Group, The Law Society of Hong Kong)
said the state report on GBA identified role and responsibility in each
city. Hong Kong had opportunities on
professional service because we are international finance center and
international legal centre. We had 3500
foreign lawyers in Hong Kong (1/3 of total).
We could met the business need of GBA industry through international law
platform for legal right protection and capital raising.
Lastly, Prof. SHEN Minghao (Dean, Great Bay Area
Institute (Guangdong, Hongkong, Macau)) gave a talk named “New function on
cross-sector cooperation in GBA”.
Prof. Shen introduced three stages from China
open-up to high quality development and compared roles between Mainland and Hong
Kong. The first stage is world factory
vs international finance center; the second stage is CEPA Free Trade Zone –
system different; and last stage is trade war between US and China, our greatest
common divisor is technology innovation.
After that Prof. Shen raised five cross-sector
integration as follows.
i)
Technology innovation
and its application (e.g. Digitalization)
ii)
Domestic
demand enlargement
iii)
Standardization
and promotion of new business model
iv)
Support One
Belt One Road Initiative
v)
Suitable
living city circle (within 1 hour) in GBA.
Lastly, he concluded the future of GBA would be intelligent
industry as business engineer, global industry operation platform and the pioneer
of IoT.
Panel
Discussion II: “Evolution
of Smart Healthcare: Technology & Connected Data”
Prof. Hong FUNG, JP, (Executive Director and Chief
Executive Officer, CUHK Medical Centre) chaired this session and introduced
each guests.
Firstly, Mr. Ricky Yin-To CHIU (Founder & CEO,
PHASE Scientific) said he was in diagnostic industry such as detecting
different cancer in early stage. He said
Hong Kong had the best medical system and top scientists in the world. It had a
good opportunity to develop healthcare in GBA.
Prof. Chung-Mau LO (Hospital Chief Executive, The
University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital) discussed the GBA plan under
one-country two system.
Then he also discussed the one-country two system
of Health Care System in terms of Service, Funding, Staff Salary and Advantage.
He said opportunity and challenge co-existed in this hybrid system (See table
below).
After that he introduced the HKU – Shenzhen Hospital
plan to us. They employed the smart
hospital concept through digitalization and automation of the process from
Booking/registration to Payment, to Medical report and then Rating &
comment.
Lastly, Prof. Lo demonstrated smart hospital
through the video.
Last guest was Ms. Nancy Sau Ling TSE, JP (Former
Chief Financial Officer and Director (Finance and Information Technology
Service), Hong Kong Hospital Authority) and she said high ROI on digitalized
Healthcare. Moreover, huge investment of
AI in this area in China. AI could
predicate the resource demand in hospital.
She guessed that Fintech brought virtual bank and Health-tech led
virtual hospital.
Lunch
Dialogue: Shenzhen as
a Pilot Demonstration Area: Opportunities and Challenges for Hong Kong
Prof. Witman HUNG, JP (Principal Liaison Officer
for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority) chaired this dialogue.
Dr. GUO Wanda (Executive Vice President, China
Development Institute) was last guest and he shared the topic was “New Opportunities
for Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone and Hong Kong-Shenzhen Cooperation (深圳先行示範區與港深合作的新機遇)”. Firstly,
he reviewed The People Republic of China 70 years, Shenzhen 40 years and Macau return
20 years. He said Shenzhen had three new
missions and they were enhancing the open-up policy (新格局), enriching implementation of One-Country Two-System (新實踐), and seeking a new way for Powerful
socialist modernization China (社會主義現代化強國新路徑).
Then he introduced the five new positioning of
Shenzhen included High Quality, Sustainability, People Happiness, City Civilization
and City Governance Standard.
Finally, Dr. Guo told us Shenzhen never replaced
Hong Kong but we worked together and complementary each other. He pointed out
two new opportunities for cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen below.
i)
Cooperation
and Competition (Coopetition);
ii)
Co-establish
the National Science Centre.
We had a good lunch today.
Reference:
Silk Road
Economic Development Research Center - http://www.silkroadresearch.org/
Greater Bay
Area Conference - https://cdroundtable.com/web/rt/meeting/meetingDetail?id=0d2e07f11d9a4db2b80e9ec2277a87cd
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