{"id":123143,"date":"2025-11-07T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:11:18","slug":"over-10-enterprises-interested-in-hong-kongs-northern-metropolis-investment-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123143\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 10 enterprises interested in Hong Kong\u2019s Northern Metropolis: investment body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10 enterprises, including pharmaceutical and logistics firms, are in talks with Hong Kong authorities to set up a presence at the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/northern-metropolis?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northern Metropolis megaproject<\/a>, according to the city\u2019s investment promoter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an interview on Thursday, InvestHK Director-General Alpha Lau Hai-suen said the interested enterprises included those from South Korea and Europe, as well as one from the Middle East with a mainland Chinese capital background.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe firms in discussion [with the authorities to establish operations] are diverse in sectors, spanning large-scale pharmaceutical enterprises, the automotive supply chain, and even companies involved in satellite technology,\u201d she said on the sidelines of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She said some enterprises had initially raised concerns about Hong Kong\u2019s insufficient land supply, but she noted the Northern Metropolis was highly favourable for industrial development.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The megaproject aims to develop 30,000 hectares (74,132 acres) into an economic growth engine and housing hub in the northern New Territories.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lau also highlighted Hong Kong\u2019s potential to help international enterprises \u201cgo global\u201d and assist them in entering the mainland market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 10 enterprises, including pharmaceutical and logistics firms, are in talks with Hong Kong authorities to set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86181,86177,138,33618,83217,86178,219,2024,86180,86182,4431,86176,23394,111,43,139,22747,69,22069,3747,4790,86179],"class_list":["post-123143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alpha-lau-hai-suen","tag-arthur-lam","tag-business","tag-central-asia","tag-china-international-import-expo-ciie","tag-dongchao-technology","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-finvolution-group","tag-go-global-unit","tag-hong-kong","tag-investhk","tag-mainland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northern-metropolis","tag-nz","tag-scmp","tag-shanghai","tag-south-korea","tag-yangtze-river-delta-yrd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}