Business advantages for Swedish Companies in Hong Kong

1. Hongkong – business opportunities for
Swedish companies
Göteborg, 21 augusti 2013
Jörgen Halldin

2. Cityscape

3. Cityscape

4. Escape

5. Hongkong /Sweden
• ”Stepping stone” to China
• Important market in its own right, Sw exports 4,8 b SEK 2012
• CEPA – the free trade agreement with mainland China and Macau
• Further integration with the Pearl River Delta
• About 160 Swedish companies – all different sectors
• Main exports: trucks and buses, telecom, machinery
• 1200 + Swedes
• Lars Nittve, M+, Madeleine Onne, Hong Kong Ballet
• Keen interest for Swedish sustainable solutions, transportation
solutions, telecom/ICT, higher education/university cooperation
• HK in Sweden: MTR – Stockholm subway, Hutchison: ”3” and the container
terminal in the harbour of Stockholm
• Free trade friends!

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Why HK is an important business hub
International Business
Environment
Low and Simple Tax
Strategically Location
Gateway to Mainland
China
World Class
Infrastructure
Efficient and Skilled
Workforce

7. Business opportunities
• Banking and finance
• Sourcing
• Logistics-related businesses
• Telecom/ICT
• Real estate/buildings-related technologies
• Business consulting
• Forward focus:
• Cleantech
• Food and beverages
• Design

8. Environmental policy / cleantech

9. HK environmental policy / cleantech
• Waste management: today 50% landfill. Gov
aims to invest 31 b HKD in entirely new waste
management infrastructure.
• Clean air: Gov aims for major reduction in
roadside pollution and air pollution from the
port. 10 b HKD to retire 88 000 pre-Euro-IV
vehicles. 3000 new buses until 2017.
• Energy efficiency in buildings: buildings
consume 89% of electricity used in HK

10. Business opportunities – waste
management
• Major business opportunities:
• Technologies for waste
management, separation, collection and
incineration
• Sludge and organic waste treatment facilities
• Landfill gas and bio gas utilization
• Public education and reach-out on environmental
awareness
• Consultancy services on efficient waste
management systems

11. Business opportunities – air quality /
clean transportation
• Major business opportunities:
• Euro V and Euro IV vehicles and buses
• Technologies for improved indoor and outdoor air
quality
• Transport infrastructure
• Fuel switch and fuel mix solutions
• Electric transport systems
• Remote sensing systems
• Consulting and testing services

12. Business opportunities – energy
efficiency in buildings
• Major business opportunities:
• Upgrading technologies for existing buildings, including
cooling/heating, ventilation, insulation, etc
• New technologies for optimizing energy and electricity
usage in buildings
• District cooling/heating systems
• Revamping the fuel-mix for electricity generation
• Consulting services on increased energy efficiency in
buildings
• New energy efficient buildings (and other clean
technologies) in major government investment programs.

13. Food and beverages
• Visit by Eskil Erlandsson, November 2012
• Open market
• Big market (US no 7 worldwide)
• Major hotel, restaurant & retail chains
• Purchasing delegations to Sweden
• Swedish F&B network in Hong Kong
• F&B fairs
• Swedish food events at hotels, etc
• Continued policy work for market opening

15.  Visit by Anna-Karin Hatt, Minister for ICT and Energy, to Hong Kong and
Canton, October 8-10, with business delegation
 Eco Expo Asia, October 28-31, Swedish pavilion/booth and speakers
 Prel visit by Stefan Attefall, Minister for Housing and Civil Affairs, end-
November
 Major design event, second half of 2014
Upcoming events

16. TACK!
Generalkonsulatet Hongkong
www.swedenabroad.com/hongkong
generalkonsulat.hongkong@gov.se
Business Sweden Hong Kong
www.business-sweden.se
Margaret.Leung@business-sweden.se
Svenska Handelskammaren Hongkong
www.swedcham.com.hk
chamber@swedcham.com.hk