LONDON Nike Air Max 98 Mens Australia , Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- An event committed to promoting Hong Kong as Asia's international trade and financial center kicked off Thursday in London as statistics showed that Britain's investment in the Chinese special administrative region has surged.


The event, "Think Asia, Think Hong Kong", a symposium organized by Hong Kong's Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Nike Air Max 90 Mens Australia , is a mega promotion campaign to attract overseas companies to use the region's service platform to tap into the Chinese mainland and other Asian markets.


Carrie Lam, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, told the opening of the event that Hong Kong, which has been the world's freest economy for 23 consecutive years Nike Air Max 97 Mens Australia , will continue to be a gateway to tap into the Chinese mainland market, with its free flow of information, capital and rule of law.


She also stressed that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative has brought opportunities and impetus to Hong Kong.


Margaret Fong, the HKTDC executive director Nike Air Max Mens Australia , said that the British start-ups and large businesses can find opportunities by taking advantage of Hong Kong's prime position as an international financial and marketing gateway, highlighting the Belt and Road Initiative, ASEAN opportunities technology as key areas for collaboration.


The event came as latest statistics showed that Britain's investment in Hong Kong has picked up drastically over the past years.


HKTDC said in a statement issued at the event that Britain's investment in the city has surged 115 percent to 25 billion British pounds (33.7 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2015, compared with the figure at the end of 2010.


It also showed that 45 percent of the British SMEs would identify Hong Kong as the gateway to the Chinese mainland and other Asian countries.


According to the research among British companies commissioned by the council Nike Air Max 90 Black Australia , the biggest opportunities that businesses recognize for launching into the Chinese mainland is its huge consumer base, its growing middle class and ability to be early adopters of technology.


The "Think Asia, Think Hong Kong" event, first held in London in 2011 Nike Air Max 95 Black Australia , has been built to provide both a general update on Hong Kong and its business environment as well as an opportunities to explore key themes that have been selected to appeal across sectors. It has been held in countries such as Japan, the U.S., France, Italy Nike Air Max Black Australia , Canada and Germany.


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The Beijing government will send officials to football games to ensure fans are behaving themselves.


The local civilization office will send personnel to football games when Guo'an, Beijing's local football team, is playing. The government wants less bad language and throwing of trash from fans at such matches.


Fans were offered trash bags on Saturday as Beijing played in Jiangsu province. Hopefully, football lovers will place their rubbish in these bags and behave in a more civilized manner in general Nike Air Max White Australia , said the local civilization office director.


Beijing's football fans are becoming younger overall and can behave irrationally at times, says Zhang Yue, the head of Guo'an's cheerleading team, who thinks football fan associations should guide members to behave more appropriately.


A fan named Kang Ning also expressed willingness to embrace a more polite manner while supporting games.


It is reported that 80 percent of Beijing football fans voluntarily remove trash after a game.




WUZHEN， Zhejiang， Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen of the latest digital inventions， ranging from Tesla's autonomous vehicle to a new generation of semi-conductors， were on show on Wednesday at the third World Internet Conference (WIC) held in east China.


The organizer， the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)， appointed committee of 33 technologists from home and abroad to screen about 500 entries submitted by companies and research institutes over the past year， and select those which best represent current trends.


Optic fiber specialist Wu Hequan who chaired the committee， said many of the achievements were already widely acknowledged. Nine of the winners came from foreign companies， including Microsoft， Tesla and Qualcomm.


Microsoft's HoloLens， for instance， is a hologram-projecting visor that enables users to see three-dimensional digital controls and immerse themselves deeper in a digital environment. It overlays digital information on top of the real world to create a mixed reality， while interacting with holograms in mixed reality enables users to visualize and work with digital content as part of their real world.


"If we can change the way we see the world， we change the world as well，" said Microsoft executive vice president Shen Xiangyang.


Compared to the West， China started late in digital technology research， but recent progress has been impressive. Among the Chinese winners was search engine Baidu's artificial intelligence (AI) creation Baidu Brain.


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