Background

About Hong Kong

Opinion

HK's advantage as a financial center

Hong Kong's development as a global trading center is set to evolve to its next stage with internationalization of the yuan.

A bridge built for two systems

Blueprint highlights city's future

Quotable Quotes

"Li is giving Hong Kong people a morale boost with the speech he gave this morning." —— Rita Fan, member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee

"Not only is Beijing still comfortable with the rapid pace of offshore renminbi market development, but it is taking its process of internationalization to the next stage." —— Donna H.J. Kwok, economist for greater China economics research, HSBC

"Hopefully more efforts will be made to encourage enterprises to issues bonds, and more means of investment will be added to retail and investment banks." —— Benjamin Hung, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)