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The 2025 Hong Kong and Macao Shandong Week special event, hosted by Shandong Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and co-organized by Shandong Port and Inspur Group, was held in Hong Kong. The meeting was held to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on deepening mutually beneficial cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, share development opportunities, discuss cooperation plans, and better serve the national situation.
Song Junji, Vice Governor of Shandong Province, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Lv Feng, Deputy Director of the Economic Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Liu Huiping, Vice President of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Zhou Jiannan, Managing Director and Head of Mainland Business of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Zhao Shiqing, Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipping Association and Chairman of Hong Kong Wah Kwong Maritime Holdings Co., Ltd. attended the meeting. Man Shengang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Shandong Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, presided over the meeting.
Song Junji, on behalf of the Shandong Provincial People's Government, welcomed the guests and expressed gratitude to friends from all walks of life in Hong Kong and Macao who have long cared about and supported the development of Shandong, and briefly introduced the economic and social development of the province and the development of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises.
Song Junji pointed out that Hong Kong is a world-renowned international financial, shipping and trade center, and is the super contact person for the mainland to connect with the world; Macau is an international free port and a world tourism and leisure capital; Shandong state-owned enterprises continue to become stronger, better and bigger, and the core functions of the state-owned economy are constantly strengthened. The cooperation between Shandong, Hong Kong and Macao is highly complementary and has huge potential for cooperation.
Song Junji said that he expects Hong Kong, Macao and Shandong enterprises to show their strengths, deepen pragmatic docking, and jointly promote industrial upgrading, expand financial cooperation, strengthen collaborative innovation, and promote green development. Continue to expand new space for win-win cooperation.
At the exchange meeting, two special guests, including Zhou Jiannan, Managing Director and Head of Mainland Business of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Zhao Shiqing, Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipping Association and Chairman of Hong Kong Wah Kwong Shipping Holdings Co., Ltd., gave speeches on the themes of "Jointly Explore New Opportunities for Financial Cooperation between Shandong and Hong Kong" and "Strengthen Cooperation with Important Shipping and Port Cities in the Mainland".
Zhao Shiqing said that in the future, to further consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's status as an international shipping center, how to strengthen cooperation with important shipping and port cities in the Mainland, especially to integrate Hong Kong's high-end maritime services into the needs of national shipping development, is the key. In the professional fields of shipping and maritime, Hong Kong and Shandong are natural partners. Due to differences in resource endowments, the strategic cooperation value of complementary advantages is more prominent.
On behalf of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shandong Province, Man Shengang expressed his gratitude to friends from all walks of life in Hong Kong and Macao who care about and support the reform and development of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in Shandong Province, and expressed that he would show the greatest sincerity to build a better platform, a better mechanism, and a better environment for the cooperation and development between all walks of life in Hong Kong and Macao and state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in Shandong Province, so as to promote the exchanges between the business community of Hong Kong and Macao and state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in Shandong Province to a higher level and open a new chapter together.
At the exchange meeting, the heads of four provincial enterprises were organized to promote their business; unveiling and signing ceremonies were held for seven newly established units in Hong Kong and Macao, 21 projects and cooperation agreements. The signed projects involved important industries such as finance and insurance, construction, communications, health care, transportation, etc., with a total investment of nearly US$1.4 billion. A promotional video of Shandong state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises was also played at the exchange meeting.
More than 200 people, including relevant departments and units of the Shandong Provincial Government, 19 provincial enterprises, heads of some Chinese-funded institutions in Hong Kong and Macao, representatives of industrial and commercial enterprises, business associations, financial institutions, professional service agencies and news media in the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, attended the exchange meeting.
