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HKPC Help Industries to Chart a New Course

With Hong Kong gradually stepping out of the shadows of the global financial tsunami, the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) will step up its efforts to help industries to chart a new course, says Mr Clement Chen, presenting his first Annual Report as Chairman of HKPC.

Under the theme of “In Times of Turn”, the HKPC 2008/09 Annual Report, tabled today (11 November 2009) at the Legislative Council, reviewed the Council’s support to industry to ride out the storm. Mr Chen said: “Leveraging on our multi-disciplinary expertise and extensive industry network, HKPC responded swiftly with new service platforms and new initiatives to assist the industries in responding to challenges and capitalizing on new opportunities arising from Government initiatives and market restructuring.” These include the flagship one-stop support platform TURN – an acronym for “Transform, Upgrade and Relocate for a New horizon”, and the Cleaner Production Partnership Programme.

“Building on this foundation, we had actively pursued with various Municipal Governments in the Mainland to replicate this ‘TURN’ model throughout the PRD,” he said. This July, the Dongguan Government and HKPC jointly launched a multi-million-dollar programme to expedite industrial upgrading in Dongguan where Hong Kong factories abound.

On the technology front, he said: “While focusing on application technology, HKPC had laid solid foundation in the research and development of technology in the areas of automobile, aviation and medical devices. All these were aimed at lifting our conventional industries up to a much higher value-added level.”

Mr Chen said HKPC’s strategic partnership with different sectors of Hong Kong’s industries would receive a further boost with the new cross-sector business consultation platform, the Hong Kong Industry Network Clusters (HK-INC). To date, two consultation meetings were held since HK-INC’s inception in June.

Published together with the Annual Report is HKPC’s first Intellectual Capital Statement. Mr Wilson Fung, Executive Director of HKPC, said: “As a knowledge-based organization, it was essential that we skillfully cultivate and leverage upon our human resources. To that end, we have compiled this Intellectual Capital Statement to take stock and present our intellectual capital (IC) to our stakeholders, so that industry will know how HKPC could be of service and value to them. This is not only a first for HKPC, but possibly render us the first public organization in Hong Kong in indentifying and managing systematically its IC.”

Looking ahead, Mr Fung said: “We are currently in discussion with the Government on the possible extension of TURN to provide more comprehensive and enhanced support to enterprises in implementing the technological and management improvement programmes. TURN would continue to be one of our major initiatives in pooling together resources from our stakeholders in spearheading the upgrading of Hong Kong’s industrial base in the PRD.”

To download the HKPC 2008/09 Annual Report, please visit the HKPC website: www.hkpc.org. For media enquiries, please contact Mr Felix Chan at tel.: (852) 2788 5036 or email: felixchan@hkpc.org

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Mr Jonathan Ho
General Manager
Corporate Communications
Tel: (852) 2788 6390
Fax: (852) 2788 5056
Email: jonathanho@hkpc.org
Website: www.hkpc.org

11 November 2009