About 60 enterprises forge partnerships with new Hong Kong I&T park as city pushes forward plan to attract jobs and billions of dollars in investment
- Among those to sign partnership deals with Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park are top firms from nine major economies
- Many of the enterprises come from life and health technology, new energy and microelectronics sectors
Among the group to sign a partnership deal with the Lok Ma Chau Loop park on Thursday were well-known firms and institutes from nine major economies – mainland China, the US, UK, Australia, France, Singapore, Thailand and Japan, as well as Hong Kong.
The firms included Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, China Mobile, China Unicom, Lenovo Group, Hutchmed (Hong Kong) and Tencent Cloud International. Among the others were US firms Drug Farm and ASC Therapeutics, AstraZeneca from the UK and Novotech (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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The enterprises, 45 per cent of which are from the life and health technology, new energy and microelectronics sectors, are expected to invest billions of dollars in the park and create thousands of jobs.
