Hong Kong rose to 4th place globally in digital competitiveness on the energy of its advances in expertise, information and “future readiness”, in accordance to the newest survey launched on Tuesday.
The particular administrative area climbed three locations in the World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2025, printed by the International Institute for Management Development, after rising three spots final 12 months.
Among the 69 economies lined by the survey, Hong Kong ranked third in “technology”, fifth in “knowledge”, and tenth in “future readiness”, a notable rise of 5 locations. At the subfactor stage, the town ranked first globally in “technological framework” and “adaptive attitudes”.
“The IMD’s WDCR 2025 continued to recognize Hong Kong as one of the most digitally competitive economies in the world,” a Hong Kong SAR authorities spokesman mentioned in an announcement.
He mentioned that with the staunch help of the nation and Hong Kong’s worldwide prospects, coupled with a thriving startup ecosystem, a free, open and honest enterprise surroundings, a easy low tax system and robust coverage help, Hong Kong is effectively positioned to entice enterprises, expertise and expertise from around the globe, thereby laying a stable basis for additional advancing info and expertise (I&T) collaboration and growth.
The spokesman mentioned the nation helps Hong Kong’s growth into a world innovation and expertise heart. “The HKSAR government has been striving to enhance the strategic layout of I&T infrastructure, with three major I&T parks and five key research and development institutions as the framework, so as to actively drive I&T development and cultivate new quality productive forces,” he mentioned.
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He additionally famous that Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu introduced in his 2025 Policy Address a collection of measures geared toward implementing the event of a world I&T heart, together with accelerating the event of “new industrialization” and selling synthetic intelligence infrastructure and software.
The HKSAR authorities will expedite the event of the third InnoHK analysis cluster and has put up a website of about 10 hectares at Sandy Ridge in the North district for the event of an information facility cluster for open tender, with a view to selling AI enterprise purposes, consolidating and enhancing Hong Kong’s aggressive edge in the global market, in addition to fostering the cultivation of latest high quality productive forces, mentioned the spokesman.
Sun Dong, secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, famous that Hong Kong’s total computing energy is predicted to enhance to roughly 5,000 PFlops by the top of this 12 months, offering robust help for analysis and purposes.
PFlops, or petaflops, are a measure of computational efficiency, with one unit representing 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
He additionally talked about that a number of native academic establishments have launched AI-related packages, with 5 native universities rating among the many global prime 50 in the fields of information science and synthetic intelligence, making certain a gentle pipeline of expertise for Hong Kong’s future growth.
Sunny Chai Ngai-chiu, chairman of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp, mentioned that the rating highlights Hong Kong’s distinctive benefits below the “one country, two systems” precept. “It underscores Hong Kong’s capability to entice prime global expertise expertise and capital, in addition to its excellent efficiency in basic analysis and the interpretation of analysis outcomes into sensible purposes,” he mentioned.
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Switzerland, the United States, and Singapore had been ranked as the highest three in this 12 months’s rankings, every scoring above 99 factors, whereas Hong Kong scored 97.79.