8 hours Ago By Morning Studio editors
Hong Kong’s determination to expand its role as a talent hub is reflected in a series of initiatives designed to draw people to the city and enable them to share their abilities with the wider world. These include a series of talent admission programmes that, since the end of 2022, have attracted more than 203,000 people to the city from around the globe. Together with efforts to develop Hong Kong into a world-class destination for post-secondary education, the Hong Kong government is committed to enhancing pathways for talent exchange between the city and emerging countries in Asia and beyond, including those that are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Its global development strategy, launched in 2013, is designed to boost trade and economic partnerships while fostering cross-border collaboration in fields such as healthcare, digitalisation, innovation and green development. One of the Hong Kong-based companies that is actively cultivating talent in the city and across the region is FWD Group. The company, founded in the same year as the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, is Hong Kong’s only home-grown pan-Asian insurance group.
FWD is focused on the Southeast Asian market, one of the initiative’s key regions. It now operates across 10 countries and territories, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines..
