Hongkong is an important market and gateway to China for Swedish companies. It offers business opportunities in many sectors such as banking, logistics, telecom, real estate, consulting, cleantech, food and beverages, and design. Specifically, Hong Kong's environmental policies around waste management, air quality improvements, and increasing energy efficiency in buildings present opportunities for Swedish sustainable technologies and solutions. Upcoming events in Hong Kong organized by the Consulate General and Business Sweden aim to promote business and networking between Swedish and Hong Kong companies.

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