两会丨全国政协委员赵柏基：香港正从“超级联系人”向“超级增值人”角色深化

Core Viewpoint - The article emphasizes the importance of Hong Kong's role in aligning with China's 14th Five-Year Plan, focusing on data intellectual property protection, green finance, capital market connectivity, and smart elderly care [1][2][5]. Group 1: Data Intellectual Property Protection - The rapid development of the digital economy has highlighted challenges in data rights, valuation, and protection, making it difficult for companies to monetize their data. A comprehensive data intellectual property protection system is needed, including a unified registration system and cross-border collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area [5][6]. Group 2: Green Finance - With the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism now in place, the international recognition of carbon data is crucial for China's manufacturing competitiveness. Hong Kong can leverage its financial regulatory framework to become a national green finance interface, helping companies mitigate carbon tax pressures and promoting the internationalization of RMB carbon assets [6][7]. Group 3: Capital Market Connectivity - The existing Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect mechanisms have been effective for over a decade, but there is room for improvement. Proposed enhancements include breaking down barriers for secondary listings, optimizing investor participation mechanisms, and exploring a "new stock connect" pilot to allow domestic professional investors to participate in Hong Kong IPOs [3][6][7]. Group 4: Smart Elderly Care and Silver Economy - The 14th Five-Year Plan emphasizes addressing population aging. The integration of technology, such as AI, can enhance health monitoring and care services. Additionally, promoting the standardization and mutual recognition of elderly care services in the Greater Bay Area can help unlock the market potential of the silver economy [7][8]. Group 5: Hong Kong's Role Transformation - Hong Kong's development plan marks a shift from merely integrating into national strategies to actively serving as a strategic planner for national development. This transition aims to deepen Hong Kong's role from a "super connector" to a "super value creator" [9][10]. Group 6: Future Development Expectations - The vision for Hong Kong over the next five years includes being more forward-looking, innovative, and integrated into the broader national strategy. The focus will be on establishing a coherent development blueprint that addresses deep-seated issues like housing and industrial development [10][11]. Group 7: Financial Empowerment - Hong Kong should evolve from being a simple "fund transfer station" to a "value amplifier," ensuring that incoming funds contribute to institutional, brand, and pricing advantages that support the transformation of the national economy and the development of new productive forces [15][16]. Group 8: Capital Market Optimization - To attract high-quality tech companies to list in Hong Kong, the capital market should optimize its listing system by broadening access for new economy enterprises, addressing investment gaps in the primary market, and improving the environment for long-term capital participation [18][19].