Sat, Apr 12, 2025
China's trade in services will grow at least 10 percent this year to $450 billion, with Hong Kong continuing to pay a key role in that growth, a top commerce official said on Tuesday.
Hong Kong will be a perfect bridge for mainland firms to explore the overseas market and the city's services industries will help them enhance the competitiveness.
Beijing plans to enhance its cooperation with Hong Kong in public health by hiring professionals from Hong Kong to be senior executives in Beijing hospitals, Fang Laiying, director-general of Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, told China Daily.
Beijing has thrown open its cultural and creative sectors to attract Hong Kong investors for the first time amid efforts to restructure the capital's economic growth model.
China's decade-long cultural sector reform is seeing encouraging results. And the Jiangxi Repertory Theater is one particular example.
Promoting high value-added projects such as exhibition and conference activities will be a key area of cooperation in the tourism industry between Beijing and Hong Kong, Beijing's vice-mayor said on Tuesday.
Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun has called on local authorities to boost development of the cultural industry.
British creative industry expert John Howkins has accepted an invitation to become head of the experts' committee of the Creative City Design Center.
Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee said Tuesday in a statement that "Hong Kong Week 2012 — Culture & Creativity @ Taipei" will be held in Taipei from Nov 23 to Dec 2.
The Ministry of Finance said on Monday it will spend most of its annual budget for the culture industry on encouraging mergers and acquisitions, innovations and investment in overseas markets, activities that are to be led by State-owned enterprises directly under the central government.
Zhouzhuang is developing its cultural creative industry by encouraging cultural tourism, creative crafts, art trade, entertainment, industrial design and exhibitions.
The China Culture Industry Investment Fund plans to plough $157 million into Chinese cultural and media enterprises over the next six months.
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