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Hong Kong still has the edge over Shenzhen and other Chinese cities, despite the protests

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發布時間 2019年9月18日12:09
  • Any plan to sideline the defiant former British colony ignores the central role the financial hub plays for China’s economy
  • Its rule of law and various freedoms, attributes of an open economy, have become even more valuable now amid the US-China trade war
Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. Despite the city’s declining importance to the national economy, it still has irreplaceable value to China’s development. Photo: Xinhua

The tale of Hong Kong and Shenzhen has been one of either collaborators or competitors since late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping designated the latter, at the time a small fishing village, as the place to pioneer his reform and opening-up policy 40 years ago.

Hong Kong has been in the grip of mass protests and riots over the past three months. While the city experiences its worst political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997, Beijing has unveiled a detailed plan to make Shenzhen "a socialist model city" for China and the world.

This is widely seen as an effort to punish and sideline the defiant former British colony, even though Hong Kong has played a critical role in helping to transform Shenzhen from a backwater into a modern metropolis and a hub of innovation and hi-tech developments for the nation.

The plan would allow wide-ranging reforms to make the special economic zone a global "benchmark" for competitiveness and influence by the middle of the century, a role now played mainly by Hong Kong.

Shenzhen has prospered by modelling Hong Kong-style market capitalism, rather than following Beijing's socialist planning dogma. Hong-Kong-invested firms, not state-owned enterprises, have played the decisive role in its economic success, particularly in the early days between the 1980s and 1990s.

Despite Hong Kong's declining importance to the national economy due to mainland's four-decade-long economic boom, the city still has irreplaceable value to China's development. It is a natural gateway not only to and from the mainland but also to the rest of the world. Multicultural Hong Kong has the advantage of having a global perspective that no other Chinese city " neither Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou nor Shenzhen " could have had.

The city is still the most important springboard for multinationals entering and exiting China. In 2018, foreign direct investment (FDI) from Hong Kong to the mainland amounted to US$1.1 trillion in stock, accounting for 54 per cent of all FDI China received from overseas, according to the Ministry of Commerce. In the same year, 58 per cent, or around US$70 billion, of China's non-financial outbound direct investment flow went to Hong Kong.

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The territory has been the mainland's largest source of overseas direct investment. By the end of 2013, the mainland had approved 360,000 projects with Hong Kong investment, according to the State Council's 2014 white paper on "one country, two systems".

Hong Kong's stock exchange attracts more than half of the number of Chinese companies seeking initial public offerings outside the mainland. The city is also accountable for the bulk of corporate bond sales issued overseas by mainland firms. The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's US$36.6 billion bid to buy the London Stock Exchange, now rejected, was an opportunity to make China a global financial superpower via Hong Kong.

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Under the "one country, two systems" formula, the developed free economies of the West grant economic privileges to Hong Kong that no other mainland Chinese city enjoys. These privileges have become more valuable now amid the escalating US-China trade war.

With complete freedom of capital movement and the ability to operate seamlessly in both onshore and offshore markets, Hong Kong plays a critical role in the internationalisation of the renminbi. Hong Kong is by far the largest offshore trading centre for the Chinese currency, with the biggest overseas pool of yuan.

Hong Kong's status in the global financial network is reflected in the portmanteau "Nylonkong", coined in 2008 for the three top financial hubs of New York, London and Hong Kong. Such a status has continued to elude Shanghai, despite decades of huge investment, not to mention Shenzhen.

The crux of the matter is that Hong Kong remains competitive, with its rule of law, free movement of capital, goods, information and people, its freedom of expression, a simple and low-tax regime, a sound regulatory system, a clean and efficient administration, and an independent judiciary intact, as pointed out by Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po last week. All of these are qualities mainland cities lack.

Hong Kong is going through some of its worst times right now. But it should still be the shared aspiration, and in the best interests of the people across the Shenzhen River, to see this "Pearl of the Orient" continue to shine, rather than fade, under Chinese sovereignty.

Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on this topic since the early 1990s

Copyright (c) 2019. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

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