Hong Kong’s 5-year plan underlines ‘DNA’ as a global city, market economy: John Lee

South China Morning Post - Oct 1, 2026

Hong Kong’s inaugural five-year plan highlighted its DNA as an international city while emphasising the market economy, the chief executive has said. Speaking at a National Day reception on Thursday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said the city needed a blueprint with strategic vision amid the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape and accelerated growth of artificial intelligence, as he highlighted three features of the plan that was unveiled last month. “[It] adheres to the ‘one country,...

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