The acting Director-General of Investment Promotion, Mr John Wan, was speaking at a final session of the Greater China Conference, hosted by an investment bank, UBS Warburg. The conference started in Shanghai and travelled to Shenzhen before coming to Hong Kong. Hong Kong companies and joint ventures directly employ some five million people in the Southern Guangdong province alone.
China is by far our largest trading partner.
Thousands of international companies involved in the China trade have already established 'beachheads' here. These are the latest figures available from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development World Investment Report. Hong Kong was Asia's most open market for the past six years, according to the annual Asian Intelligence survey. The key to Hong Kong's success is our commitment to free enterprise.