Hong Kong’s government opened a public consultation on its first five-year
economic and social plan for 2026–30, proposing measures to boost high-quality
development as an international financial centre. Key market measures include
deeper integration of equities, bonds, asset-management, wealth-management,
insurance and risk-management markets with mainland capital markets; steps to
consolidate Hong Kong’s role as the global offshore renminbi centre; building a
commodity trading ecosystem; and widening cross-border financing channels to
ease state-owned enterprises’ overseas expansion and attract inbound foreign
capital. The plan also promotes Financial+ initiatives — including fintech,
green finance and trade finance — to deepen sector linkages and support
Beijing’s objective of accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse.
