Beijing says it will introduce extra measures, as needed, to bolster Hong Kong as an international financial centre, with Vice-Premier He Lifeng pledging continued support in a speech on Tuesday.
Delivering a keynote speech at the opening of the 2026 Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong via video link, He said finance was the most important leg of the city’s “four centres and one highland” agenda and stressed that using the advantages of the “one country, two systems” constitutional principle was key to their development.
The vice-premier described “one country” as the “seed capital” and “two systems” as “the profit”, and said that, as any investor knew, seed capital needed to be protected before risks were taken to maximise returns.