The 10th "Belt and Road" Summit Forum came to an end in Hong Kong on the 11th. In his speech, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Li Jiachao pointed out that Hong Kong is an ideal hub for jointly building the "Belt and Road" and connecting Asia with the world. It is a "super contact person" and a "super value-added person". The term "hub" accurately reveals Hong Kong's unique position and core role in jointly building the "Belt and Road". After ten years of hard work, Hong Kong's "Belt and Road" Summit Forum has achieved fruitful results, which not only allows Hong Kong to deeply participate in the flagship project of jointly building the "Belt and Road", but also allows Hong Kong to inject new impetus into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with the attitude of "cooperation and change".

On September 10, the 10th "Belt and Road" Summit Forum jointly organized by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Bureau was held in Hong Kong. The picture shows guests negotiating on-site at the forum. Photo by Li Zhihua, a reporter from China News Service

The results data can clearly see Hong Kong's role as a "hub". Over the past decade, the forum has attracted more than 45,000 guests from more than 120 countries and regions to participate and has promoted more than 2,800 projects to jointly build the "Belt and Road". This confirms that Hong Kong's advantages in "internal and external connectivity" have been widely recognized, and Hong Kong's role in hubs is more prominent, and it can be observed in detail from the two dimensions of "transmission" effectiveness and "change".

Take "tong" as the pulse. Hong Kong is a two-way portal for "internal connection and external connection", making cooperation more efficient. This kind of "connection" is reflected in building a bridge for precise docking for enterprises. From providing "one-stop" legal services covering the entire process for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" project, to signing a comprehensive double taxation agreement with 37 tax jurisdictions for jointly building the "Belt and Road"... Hong Kong clears obstacles for cross-border cooperation with international and high standards. Overseas companies rely on Hong Kong to connect with global financial markets, and mainland Chinese technology companies rely on Hong Kong to reduce the risk of "going overseas". These cases all confirm Hong Kong's unique role as a "super contact person" and "super value-added person".

Hong Kong's awareness of "seeking change" has allowed cooperation opportunities to continue to expand. This forum has added key projects for jointly building the "Belt and Road", "focusing on the Middle East and ASEAN markets", and exchange elements with young business leaders, which have led to about 50 memorandums of cooperation between government and enterprises and more than 800 one-to-one project matching meetings. These innovative measures accurately match the current demand for jointly building the "Belt and Road" in emerging fields.

In the future, Thailand's "Eastern Economic Corridor" will focus on development in emerging fields such as medical care, digital technology, and green economy, and Hong Kong has gathered funds, talents and technologies from these industries to efficiently empower specific projects. The "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster ranks first in the world in the ranking of the top 100 innovation clusters in the "2025 Global Innovation Index", allowing Hong Kong to rely on the joint efforts of regional innovation, help mainland technology companies "go global" and inject innovative vitality into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".

The 10th "Belt and Road" Summit Forum is a milestone in the construction of "hub" and a new starting point. Hong Kong has become a hub for jointly building the "Belt and Road" and is the right choice to adapt to market needs and demonstrate its own advantages. In the future, Hong Kong can continuously activate its potential through "change" and strengthen its connections through "connection", which will play a greater role in emerging fields such as green economy, digital technology, and scientific and technological innovation, and become an irreplaceable and indispensable core hub in jointly building the "Belt and Road".