Lawrence J. Lau, chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says that two factors enabled Hong Kong to recover from 2003's SARS crisis: China's granting of numerous economic and trade benefits, and its liberalization of visits to Hong Kong by mainland citizens.
香港中文大學校長劉遵義指出，香港在 2003 年 SARS 危機後得以從蕭條中復甦的兩大因素，一是中國對香港釋出種種經貿優惠措施，另一個則是中國開放內地人民香港自由行。