HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 11 September 2026 – The eleventh Belt and Highway Summit was efficiently held on the Hong Kong Conference & Exhibition Centre (September 9–10), attracting over 6,200 political and enterprise elites from greater than 70 international locations and areas below the Belt and Highway Initiative (BRI) and past, exploring co-operation alternatives for mutually useful improvement.
Throughout the two-day occasion, greater than 60 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and bilateral co-operation agreements had been witnessed. The full worth of those MoUs, along with new tasks and offers finalised earlier than and throughout the Summit, is over US$3.1 billion.
Hosted by the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area (HKSAR) Authorities since 2016, the summit stays the premier enterprise and funding platform for Hong Kong’s participation in and contribution to the BRI.
Noting that the BRI is a shared blueprint for the long run, rooted in a wealthy historical past of cross-cultural collaboration, HKSAR Chief Govt John Lee mentioned: “Hong Kong, as a spot the place East meets West, is the place capital, expertise, companies and alternatives converge. Along with strengthening our relationships with conventional companions, Hong Kong continues to broaden our community of pals alongside the Belt and Highway.”
Beneath the theme “Advancing Excessive-quality Improvement · Embarking on a New Journey”, enterprise and authorities leaders mentioned co-operation throughout commerce and commerce, authorized companies, inexperienced expertise, logistics, synthetic intelligence and new high quality productive forces.
The summit explored new co-operation landscapes and rising alternatives in commerce, funding and improvement throughout Belt & Highway markets and different areas, with a particular deal with ASEAN, Central Asia and the Center East, underscoring Hong Kong’s distinctive position as a “tremendous connector” and “tremendous value-adder”.
Mr Lee has led high-level enterprise delegations to discover alternatives in 13 Belt and Highway international locations throughout ASEAN, the Center East and Central Asia, delivering a complete of over 250 MoUs and different agreements. These coated coverage coordination, commerce and funding, expanded connectivity and help for corporations, underlining Hong Kong’s deal with opening new markets, forming new partnerships and advancing regional co-operation.
This yr’s summit featured three newly-added particular chapters – the GoGlobal Chapter, Central Asia Chapter and Center East Chapter. The GoGlobal Chapter provided a one-stop platform for alternate and matchmaking for Chinese language Mainland enterprises seeking to faucet new markets abroad, whereas the Central Asia and Center East chapters invited native officers and enterprise leaders to share funding alternatives.
“In mild of the shifting geopolitics, rising commerce protectionism and the reshaping of worldwide provide chains, companies going international is not merely an possibility; it’s an more and more essential technique for Chinese language Mainland enterprises to diversify dangers, strengthen resilience and pursue new progress alternatives,” mentioned the HKSAR Authorities’s Secretary for Commerce and Financial Improvement, Mr Algernon Yau.
A freshly built-in College Zone highlighted Hong Kong universities’ R&D strengths and their capabilities in expertise commercialisation throughout the Belt & Highway area, consolidating Hong Kong’s place as a world schooling hub. The Summit additionally launched a debut Dialogue for Future session, selling think-tank exchanges on “The Belt and Highway Initiative and Asia-Pacific Co-operation in a Altering World Panorama”.
By means of the Mission Funding Session, Belt and Highway Deal-Making, and Exhibition Zones, this yr’s occasion showcased over 300 funding tasks, and organized greater than 800 one-on-one deal-making conferences, serving to enterprises join with potential companions.
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