Hong Kong has wooed dozens of tech companies: CE
Dozens of technology enterprises from around the world have been lured to Hong Kong in the past six months, Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday.   The firms will expand their businesses in the SAR and bring talent with them, Lee said. He made the remarks as 59 local, mainland and overseas enterprises, including big names such as AstraZeneca, Tencent Cloud and China Mobile, signed Memoranda of Understanding with the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park. At a ceremony, Lee said the signings were a milestone in the city’s journey to become an innovation and technology hub.  “These enterprises and their enterprising partners will help to attract talent and investment, cultivate industry collaboration, facilitate market access and provide many other services essential to an undertaking as ambitious and far-reaching as this one,” Lee said. Speaking to reporters after the ceremony, a non-executive director of AstraZeneca, Tony Mok, said the pharmaceutical giant will focus on developing a cancer therapy at the I&T park. "Chinese University actually had already the first GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) approved facility for cellular product production. So, I think there's a potential great synergy. And, I think this is one of the major directions that we will be looking at, that is the development of cellular therapy in Hong Kong."