Building supply chains of the future The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a major shock to supply chains around the world. But with its unique strengths, Kong looks set to recover as a resilient logistics hub regionally and globally.

Where stands

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Trade freedom Workforce - World Bank’s on Heritage availability, friendly tax Ease of Doing Foundation Index productivity, systems on Business Rankings of Economic regulation and cost PWC Paying 2020 Freedom 2020 efficiency on Taxes 2020 ManpowerGroup Solutions Total Workforce Index 2019

Greater Bay Area connectivity

Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link • 26km long • Direct train service to 58 mainland destinations

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Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge Liantang /Heung Yuen Wai • Commissioned on 24 October 2018 Boundary Control Point • 55km long • 7th land crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen • Journey time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong International Airport reduced • Travelling time to Shenzhen from four hours to 45 minutes nearly halved from 53 minutes to 31 minutes

Belt and Road gateway

Geographic proximity to Mainland and

hours’ Hong Kong is the flight time preferred destination 5 for enterprises seeking from half of the world’s professional services population makes it a to tap into Belt and crucial connecting point Road opportunities.1 between and other Belt and Road countries.

Freight infrastructure Hong Kong International Airport

1st World’s busiest airport for ten years2

4.8m Accounted for 42% of total external trade value tonnes of cargo 3 throughput in 2019

9m Annual cargo handling capacity upon full commissioning tonnes of a Three-Runway System

Port of Hong Kong

124.6m Total port cargo for the first half in 20204 tonnes

An increase in tonnage of inward port cargo loaded in +15.6% Mainland China in first half of 2020 compared with first half of 2019

New Smart Logistics Hub at Hong Kong International Airport

Area: Due to commence full operations in 2023, 380,000 it will employ large-scale robotics, automation metres2 and temperature-controlled solutions Additional 1.7 million tonnes in cargo volume5

eTradeConnect

12 The blockchain-based trade finance platform, developed by major banks under the major facilitation of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will accelerate how trade is conducted banks in the logistics industry

Connected The Hong Kong platform has been connected to trade finance platform of Mainland China's to Mainland China central bank to support cross-border trade finance transactions

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1 Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Research, 2019 2 ACI World rankings 2010–2020 3 Hong Kong International Airport, 2019 4 Census and Statistics Department, 2020 5 Alibaba Group, 2018