Financial opening-up | Vice-President Han Zheng meets HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker, hopes to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation
金融開放｜國家副主席韓正會見滙豐主席杜嘉祺 冀深化互利合作
Chinese media reported that Vice-President Han Zheng met HSBC (00005) Chairman Mark Tucker in Beijing on Monday (22nd). Han said China is comprehensively advancing Chinese-style modernisation through high-quality development and remains firmly committed to expanding high-level opening-up. It will focus on institutional opening-up in areas including rules, regulations, management and standards, and promote high-level financial opening-up. Han also said international financial institutions such as HSBC Group are welcome to continue actively participating in the reform and opening-up of China’s financial sector and achieve better development in China. The central government fully supports the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in promoting the development of its international financial centre, and hopes HSBC Group will leverage its own strengths, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with China, and make new contributions to consolidating and enhancing Hong Kong’s status as an international financial centre. The report also quoted Mark Tucker as expressing high praise for China’s economic and social development achievements. He said HSBC Group’s confidence in investing in China remained firm, and that it would actively participate in China’s high-quality development and high-level opening-up, support the development of Hong Kong as an international financial centre, and promote more results from mutually beneficial UK-China cooperation.
有內媒指，國家副主席韓正周一（22日）在北京會見滙豐 （00005） 主席杜嘉祺。韓正表示，中國正以高品質發展全面推動中國式現代化，堅定不移擴大高水準對外開放，將以規則、規制、管理和標準等製度型開放為重點，推進金融高水準對外開放。 韓正又稱，歡迎匯豐集團等國際金融機構繼續積極參與中國金融領域改革開放，在華實現更好發展，中國中央政府全力支持香港特區政府推進國際金融中心建設，希望匯豐集團用好自身優勢，深化與中方互利合作，為鞏固提升香港國際金融中心地位做出新的貢獻。 報道又引述杜嘉祺高度讚賞中國經濟社會發展成就，表示匯豐集團對華投資信心堅定，將積極參與中國高品質發展和高水準對外開放，支持香港國際金融中心建設，推動英中互利合作取得更多成果。