Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong started his go to to Stockholm, Sweden, on May 11 (native time) to additional deepen exchanges and collaboration between Hong Kong and Sweden in innovation and know-how (I&T).
In the morning, the know-how chief visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the nation’s largest technical training and analysis college.
He goals to study from Sweden’s profitable expertise in industry-academia-research integration, in order to promote the coordinated improvement of training and know-how within the Northern Metropolis University Town.
Sun then attended a roundtable luncheon hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the place he emphasised that Hong Kong serves as a gateway for abroad enterprises to develop their companies within the mainland.
In the night, Sun attended a dinner reception co-hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London and the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in Sweden.
He acknowledged in a keynote speech that Hong Kong and Sweden are each open and innovation-driven economies with extremely appropriate improvement instructions, inviting Swedish enterprises, analysis expertise, and buyers to deepen co-operation.
The metropolis is advancing a number of essential I&T improvement tasks, together with the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone, new initiatives in AI and life and well being know-how, increasing digital infrastructure, and the forthcoming HK$10 billion Innovation and Technology Industry-Oriented Fund.
Additionally, Sun visited the Karolinska Institutet, one of many world’s main medical faculties famend for its life science analysis, and SciLifeLab, a nationwide life science laboratory advancing molecular biosciences.
He additionally referred to as on the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Sweden, Zhou Limin, to introduce Hong Kong’s strategic positioning as a world I&T centre.
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