Lee Ka-chao: Hong Kong will formulate a five-year development plan to fully align with the national "15th Five-Year Plan"

Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, met with the media before attending the executive meeting on the 10th and stated in response that Hong Kong will formulate a five-year development plan, establish a systematic policy framework, and make more precise and detailed deployment in key development areas, in order to comprehensively, actively, and positively connect with the national "14th Five-Year Plan" and create new opportunities for Hong Kong, enhancing its competitiveness. When asked by a reporter from Xinhua News Agency about how the government will actively follow up on the national "14th Five-Year Plan," Carrie Lam made the above statement. Carrie Lam said that Hong Kong is currently facing challenges such as economic transformation, changes in labor force skills demand, intensified international competition, and rising geopolitical risks. Integrating into the overall national development can bring new space and new dynamic. If Hong Kong can resonate with the national medium and long-term planning, leveraging its unique advantage of being backed by the motherland and connecting with the world, it can explore new development opportunities in various fields. Hong Kong will comprehensively, actively, and positively connect with the national "14th Five-Year Plan," create new prospects, enhance competitiveness, further develop the economy, improve people's livelihoods, and seize major opportunities. Carrie Lam pointed out that the government will focus on five areas of alignment: first, consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's status as an international financial center, aligning it with the national goal of building a strong financial country; second, consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's status as an international shipping center, aligning it with the national goal of building a strong transportation country and deepening cooperation with the ports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area; third, consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's status as an international trade center, aligning it with the national goal of building a strong domestic market and a strong trading country; fourth, building an international innovation and technology center, aligning it with the national goal of accelerating high-level technological self-reliance; and fifth, creating an international hub for high-end talent gathering, aligning it with the national goal of building a strong country in education, science, and technology, and talent. Hong Kong will also do well in alignment work in other areas.