Welcome remarks by SITI at Digital Financial system Summit 2024 (English excellent) (with photos)

Following are the welcome remarks by the Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Solar Dong, at the Digital Financial system Summit 2024 at the present time (April 12):

Monetary Secretary, Mr Paul Chan, Dear Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Authorities within the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Space (SAR) Ms Lu Xinning, Dear Wang Song of the Cyberspace Administration of China Vice Minister of the Our on-line world Administration of China Mr Wang Song, President of the China Web Construction Foundation, Ms Wang Xiujun, accepted speakers and company, girls and gentlemen,

Upright morning and welcome to Digital Financial system Summit 2024. In explicit, a warm welcome to our company and associates from the Mainland and international for becoming a member of us at this innovation and abilities (I&T) flagship tournament in Hong Kong.

Organised by the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau and Cyberport, the Digital Financial system Summit has established itself as Hong Kong’s annual excessive-powered I&T tournament. The theme of this 365 days’s summit is “Smarter Technovation for all: Forging a Sustainable Future”. This theme highlights the importance of I&T in tackling world challenges, driving the realm digital financial system and at the same time promoting sustainability and rising positive societal outcomes.

This 365 days, our two-day programme comprises a complete of eight thematic forums, that are dedicated to fostering a holistic and multi-dimensional methodology to glance into how the realm digital financial system is being shaped and impacted. Over 100 industry consultants and world belief leaders approach here to fragment their precious ride and imaginative and prescient. I aid all of you to rob this golden opportunity to engage in engrossing discussions and come one day of contemporary industrial collaborations in this world abilities wave.

The Hong Kong SAR Authorities has all the time accorded excessive precedence to rising Hong Kong into an global I&T hub as space out in our country’s 14th Five-365 days Notion. Below the management of our Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, the Hong Kong I&T Construction Blueprint published in December 2022 laid down a positive course for Hong Kong’s I&T vogue within the subsequent 5 to 10 years, which entails accelerating the vogue of the digital financial system and orderly city. On this 365 days’s Budget as announced by our Monetary Secretary, Mr Paul Chan, a bunch of digital financial system-connected initiatives and measures luxuriate in been presented, which yet again additional demonstrates our authorities’s commitments in I&T adoption for increased-quality financial whisper.

Hong Kong will proceed to contribute our I&T vitality in forging a sustainable future. The most recurrently cited definition of “sustainable” is vogue that meets the needs of the show cloak with out compromising the ability of our future generations to meet their very have needs. Echoing at the present time’s theme, how we’re going to impact a sustainable future is developed by asserting a stability between the usage of abilities in an luminous map, whereas at the same time, promoting, rising and maximising prolonged-timeframe tag by the usage of abilities in a stable and to blame manner. I factor in our speakers in this two-day programme will give the correct illustration on this crucial agenda.

Sooner than I shut, I’d fancy to thank Cyberport, my colleagues within the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau and the Office of the Authorities Chief Info Officer, and our collaboration companions for his or her inspiring contributions in organising this immense tournament. I also desire you all a basically rewarding ride at the Summit and a gorgeous ride in Hong Kong. Thank you very great.

Ends/Friday, April 12, 2024
Issued at HKT 12:46

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