On January 11, the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Exchange was invited to attend the "Asian Financial Forum Sub-Conference and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Innovation Financial Cooperation and Exchange Conference". Wu Gaolin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, delivered a speech on "New Opportunities for Hong Kong's Financial Development", focusing on Shenzhen-Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Innovation Financial Cooperation and Exchange.

(Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered a speech)

(Wu Gaolin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Exchange, delivered a speech)

The Asian Financial Forum (AFF) is an event with important influence in Asia jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council every year. It has been successfully held for 15 times so far, providing a platform for global government, financial and business leaders to exchange ideas and connect investment. This morning, the 16th Asian Financial Forum opened at the Hong Kong International Convention and Exhibition Center. The theme of the 16th Asian Financial Forum was "promoting transformation: efficiency, co-financing and innovation". Nearly 100 heavyweight political and business leaders, financial experts, investment authorities, business leaders, technology giants and economists were invited to participate in the forum Digital currency and other hot topics will be shared to discuss how to formulate an influential business development strategy and plan a sustainable growth blueprint in the new year 2023, and how global enterprises can work together to build a resilient economic and social bureau through the concept of integration innovation and integration.

As one of the activities of this Asian Financial Forum, the Asian Financial Forum Branch Venue and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Innovation Financial Cooperation Exchange Conference will be set up in the afternoon at the Shenzhen Institute of Higher Finance in Futian, Shenzhen, and the China Construction Bank Building in Central Hong Kong, respectively. Hong Kong and Shenzhen will be connected.

The purpose of the exchange conference is to promote the linkage and cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in science and technology innovation and finance, jointly build the ecological system of science and technology innovation and finance in the Great Bay Area, attract domestic and foreign funds to invest in the science and technology industry in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the Great Bay Area, and accelerate the scientific and technological innovation and industrial development in Hong Kong and the entire Great Bay Area. It is understood that this Shenzhen-Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Innovation Financial Cooperation and Exchange Conference is also one of the seven professional forums held during the 16th Shenzhen International Financial Expo.

This forum gathered heavyweight guests from all over the world, including Ban Ki-moon, the eighth UN Secretary-General, Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the co-founder of Global Optimism, Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Huang Tianwei, the chief representative of the Hong Kong Trade and Development Bureau in South China, and He Jie, the director of the Shenzhen Local Financial Supervision and Administration Xing Yujing, Senior Adviser to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Tang Jin, Shenzhen Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Chen Haolian, Deputy Secretary of the Financial Affairs and Treasury Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Wang Yang, Vice President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Xiao Geng, Director of the Institute of Policy and Practice of Shenzhen Hi-Tech University, Xiang Shaohua, Executive Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of International Finance, Executive Director of Shenzhen Zero One College, Wu Gaolin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Exchange Ling Jialian, the founder of IPIC Intellectual Property Innovation Alliance, and other guests attended.

The forum showed that Hong Kong is a vibrant international business center, Wu Gaolin mentioned in his speech: "A great change has taken place in global trade, from trade in goods to trade in intellectual property services. The volume of intellectual property trade has expanded from 150 billion US dollars in 2000 to nearly 1 trillion US dollars in 2020, accounting for 9% of the total global trade in services. With the deepening of asset digitization and digital capitalization, the tide of intellectual economy and digital economy is surging, intellectual property has made great contributions to the two major economies of China and the United States, and intellectual property is increasingly becoming more and more important As a strategic resource for national development and a core element of international competitiveness, intellectual property transactions will also be a bridge linking virtual assets and real economy ".

In addition, including Val é rie Baudson, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Agricole Asset Management, Gu Shu, Chairman of Agricultural Bank of China, Takeshi Kunibe, Chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Robert F. Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vista Equity Partners, Dr. Ridha Wirakusumah, Chief Executive Officer of Indonesia Investment Agency, Mark Tucker, Chairman of HSBC Holdings Group Dr. Jos é Vi ñ als, Chairman of the Standard Chartered Group, and Liu Jin, Vice Chairman and President of the Bank of China, analyzed the latest situation of the global financial economy, RCEP and opportunities in the Great Bay Area, asset and wealth management, ESG and green finance, insurance and risk management, family office ecosystem, philanthropy and efficiency investment, universal finance, financial innovation and the central bank's digital currency, etc, The forum once again highlighted Hong Kong's status as an international financial center.

In the future, we also hope to see more scientific and technological innovation and financial linkage cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, attract funds from home and abroad to invest in the science and technology industry of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the Great Bay Area, open up the capital vein of Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and accelerate the scientific and technological innovation and sustainable development of industry in Hong Kong and the entire Great Bay Area!