Hong Kong holds the undesirable distinction of being the most US-sanctioned territory in China, with greater than 300 entities blacklisted by Washington in a bid to curb Beijing’s technological rise.
But the authorities maintains {that a} backlash from Washington won’t cease Hong Kong from changing into a world expertise hub, in keeping with an initiative that seeks to bypass technological containment by means of deepened partnerships with the mainland.
Anchored by the cross-border Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, the initiative may flip Hong Kong into China’s quantum gateway to the world, in response to one of the nation’s main consultants in the area.
Guo Guoping, chief scientist and co-founder of the agency Origin Quantum, mentioned the core of China’s drive to develop quantum computing lay in constructing a “complete, self-controllable, scalable, and industrialisable quantum computing system”.
This would come with creating partnerships between mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), notably by means of the Hetao cross-border expertise hub, he mentioned.
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Guo, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, the nation’s prime legislature, made the remarks in a written assertion supplied through electronic mail to South China Morning Post after an interview request eventually month’s “two sessions” legislative and advisory conferences in Beijing.