The central government has been very consistent in offering help to Hong Kong over the past 23 years, whether in areas of public health, financial crisis or economic development, she said.
The central bank has increasingly relied on open market operations for liquidity management, rather than cuts to interest rates or reserve requirement ratios, ensuring cash fluctuations do not exceed expectations.
The city has also developed industrial zones for incubating small and medium-sized enterprises that specialize in processing agricultural products. One enterprise, for instance, has managed to extract anthocyanin, an antioxidant found in blueberries. Anthocyanins are said to offer anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and anti-cancer benefits.
The central bank has also made arrangements for significant cash demands before the Spring Festival, an important Chinese traditional festival which will fall on Feb 16, 2018.
The central bank, supported by sound economic fundamentals, will have less need to stabilize the currency through use of reserves, according to Liang Hong, chief economist with China International Capital Corp.
The city's retailers were said to have ended the Golden Week on a strong note. Local wholesale and retail sector lawmaker Peter Shiu Ka-fai said earlier that pharmacies were believed to have seen sales rise 20 percent year-on-year during the break, while jewelers and cosmetics stores also posted double-digit sales growth.
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The change, and small celebration, came after Xinxin had a pre-meal talk with teacher Li Wenjun, a volunteer from Lanzhou, provincial capital of Gansu.
The city's official system for the mobile application of public services, or i-Shenzhen, allows people to handle more than 95 percent of administrative matters, such as applying for social security insurance, purchasing plane tickets and settling traffic tickets.
The city currently has over 300 British-funded firms whose investment in the city has totaled more than billion, Wuhan mayor Wan Yong said at a business event attended by Liam Fox, the UK Secretary of State for International Trade, along with over 40 entrepreneurs from the United Kingdom.
The city also takes the core role in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, an area that Pony Ma, chairman and CEO of Tencent, described as "the cradle of the Chinese Silicon Valley".