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The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge provides a direct link between
Hong Kong and the western region of the Pearl River Delta.

• Top R&D institutes are setting up in Hong • A new listing regime was put in place
Kong: in April 2018, allowing biotechnology
companies lacking prior record of revenue
––Karolinska Institutet of Sweden opened or profit and high growth and innovative
its first overseas research facility in the companies with weighted voting rights
Hong Kong Science Park structures to list on the Stock Exchange
of Hong Kong.
––Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) established a Hong Kong Innovation We mean business. In addition to the
Node to enrich the educational experiences HK$28 billion pledged in 2016-2017,
of MIT and Hong Kong students in key an unprecedented HK$50 billion has been
areas of innovation practice including reserved in 2018 for developing infrastructure,
entrepreneurship funding R&D, supporting start-ups, nurturing
talents and attracting multi-national companies.

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