China has called on its biggest state firms to take a more active role in Hong Kong, including stepping up investment and asserting more control of companies in the financial hub, executives familiar with the matter said, as Beijing attempts to calm months of unrest in the city.
SASAC did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Officials at Sinopec and China Merchants Group did not respond to requests for comment, and calls to the two companies went unanswered. SASAC's Communist Party chief, Hao Peng, appeared in Hong Kong on Wednesday at a forum for the Belt and Road infrastructure initiative and said that SOEs were looking for ways to cooperate in major projects in the city, according to a SASAC news release.
Months of huge and often violent protests in Hong Kong were triggered by planned legislation that would have allowed suspects to be extradited to mainland courts. The Hong Kong economy was once dominated by British trading houses with roots in the 19th century. Local tycoons started to take over many of the businesses in the latter part of the 20th century, creating huge conglomerates such as Li Ka-shing's CK Hutchison Holdings.
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