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safeguard national security: Launch a new series and attract large enterprises to establish captive
of informational programs on national security insurers in Hong Kong
laws in Q2 2025 to tie in with the 10th National
Security Education Day in 2025; bring the national - International Shipping Center
security comic series online to offline by launching
printed picture books in Q1 2025 and showing - Establish the Hong Kong Maritime and
a short drama in schools in the 2025/26 school Port Development Board to strengthen research
year; complete the updating of the “Curriculum capacity and promotional efforts in the Chinese
Framework of National Security Education in Hong mainland and overseas
Kong” and the curriculum frameworks for related
subjects within 2025 - Create a commodity trading ecosystem,
introducing tax concessions and encouraging
• Improve governance: Set up four international commodity exchanges to set up
cross-bureau co-ordination mechanisms led by accredited warehouses in Hong Kong
Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Departments
to enhance the governance system; collaborate - Promote development of high value-added
with Chinese mainland cities to launch mutual maritime services such as ship broking, financing
civil service exchange programs and launch the and leasing, maritime insurance, maritime law
Governance Talents Development Program within and arbitration
2025; actively promote the application of artificial
intelligence in the Government and the public - Promulgate the Action Plan on Green
sector to speed up the digital transformation of Maritime Fuel Bunkering to advance the
public services development of a green maritime center

• Consolidate and enhance Hong Kong’s - Complete installation of a port community
three centers and one hub system to facilitate data exchange among stakeholders
for further development of the smart port
- International Financial Center
- International Trade Center
- Develop an international gold trading
market and world-class gold storage facilities - Build a high value-added supply chain
services center to serve Chinese mainland
- Implement an array of measures to attract and overseas enterprises and facilitate their
new capital and products to the stock market, establishment of offshore trading headquarters in
including more Renminbi (RMB)-denominated Hong Kong
products and refining the regulatory regime to
boost efficiency - Raise the statutory maximum indemnity
percentage of the Hong Kong Export Credit
- Better utilize the currency swap agreement Insurance Corporation to 95% and encourage the
with our country to enhance offshore RMB liquidity China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation to
establish presence in Hong Kong
- Enhance the New Capital Investment
Entrant Scheme by allowing the purchase of high- - Actively promote the development of
end residential properties a headquarters economy to bring in strategic
enterprises from outside Hong Kong; extend the
- Actively explore the suitable expansion of validity period of multiple-entry visas to the Chinese
the Bond Connect (Southbound Trading) to deepen mainland for foreign staff of companies registered
mutual market access in Hong Kong to up to five years

- Enhance development of the insurance - Reduce the duty rate for liquor to promote
sector, in particular non-life insurance businesses, liquor trading and related economic activities

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