Professional services critical to SAR’s economic growth

As the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region consolidates its business links with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Middle East, the city’s professional services sector has a pivotal role to play in accelerating these bonds, says Hong Kong business titan Jonathan Choi Koon-shum. Professional services will be in great demand from Middle Eastern countries as their real-estate development booms, contends Choi, chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. The special administrative region has developed a suite of property and construction-related professional services, such as town planning, architecture, engineering, consultation, and smart-city technologies, aided by a robust and thriving property market, and financial connectivity will be a major business interaction between Hong Kong and the Middle East. Opportunities nearby “Hong Kong’s professional services can fuel the bonds between ASEAN and Hong Kong not only in such services, but also in trade and traditional segments ranging from finance, real-estate construction and mercantile goods trade to emerging sectors like new energy,” says Choi, who is also a Standing Committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference — the nation’s top political advisory body.