Sun Dong: The SAR Government is comprehensively advancing the "AI+" development strategy to promote the development of the digital economy and a smart society.

Professor Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry of the Hong Kong SAR, attended the "Global Cooperation and Innovation on Mutual Trust, Interconnection and Interoperability of AI Agents Jointly Building the Intelligent Internet Forum" and the "Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Internet Development Forum" at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang on November 4. Sun Dong noted that the SAR Government is comprehensively advancing the "AI+" development strategy, empowering all industries with AI and promoting the development of the digital economy and a smart society. The SAR Government has established the "AI+ and Industry Development Strategy Committee" to coordinate and advance the deep integration of AI with various industries. He mentioned that construction has begun on the Sha Ling Data Park in the Northern Metropolis, which is expected to provide 180,000 petaflops of computing power after 2030, providing important support for the development of AI and the digital industry. The SAR Government will also inject an additional HK$1 billion into the "Artificial Intelligence Funding Scheme" to support frontier scientific research and the development of the intelligent computing industry. Speaking in the morning at the "Global Cooperation and Innovation on Mutual Trust, Interconnection and Interoperability of AI Agents Jointly Building the Intelligent Internet Forum," Professor Sun Dong said that the SAR Government is actively aligning with national development strategies to promote the innovative development of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI Agents. He pointed out that the SAR Government is advancing relevant development in three areas: promoting the widespread application of AI and AI Agents, improving the governance framework, and promoting international exchange and cooperation. Next year, it will jointly release with the Hong Kong AI Research and Development Institute AI Agent safety management guidelines applicable to the whole society, further improving the governance framework for AI development and application to ensure that technology develops for the good and remains safe and controllable. The SAR Government will also actively respond to the country's "Global AI Governance Initiative" by hosting major international AI conferences in Hong Kong to promote open source, openness, and cooperative sharing. In the afternoon, Professor Sun Dong attended the "Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Internet Development Forum" and delivered opening remarks. He said that Hong Kong is cultivating new quality productive forces through technological innovation and promoting AI as a core industry for future development. To this end, the SAR Government is building a new landscape of "three major innovation and technology parks and five major research institutions," further improving the innovation and technology development system and the layout of the public research system to inject new momentum into economic development.