China has rapidly become one of the world’s most powerful economies. Its Greater Bay Area, highlighted by the Guangdong and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, is home to over 100 million people and accounts for almost 10 percent of Chinese GDP.
With rising wages and living standards also come expectations for a higher level of public health. There are opportunities for partnership and investment between the Greater Bay Area and the U.S. on biomedical developments, how research can better answer the questions of today, and which technologies will define global health.
On September 18, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco and the Asia Society Texas Center co-hosted a luncheon seminar on “Biotechnology and Medical Innovation: Developments in China's Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong, and the US”.
Speakers from Hong Kong and Houston including Mr Stephen Phillips, Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong; Mr Simon Sze, Associate Director at the Biomedical Technology Cluster of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation; and Dr Erik Halvorsen, Director of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Institute had an engaging conversation on the intersection of medicine, technology, and innovation.
Houston has leading biomedical research and stands at the forefront of the health care industry. Hong Kong is also seeing exciting growth in biotechnology and has attracted world-renowned research institutes along with its excellent medical schools. There are similarities between the two cities and much potential for further collaboration.
The presentations of the speakers from Hong Kong can be viewed as follows:
- Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation
- Invest Hong Kong
(From left) Mr Ivanhoe Chang, Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco; Dr Erik Halvorsen, Director of the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute; Mr Stephen Phillips, Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong, and Mr Simon Sze, Associate Director at Biomedical Technology Cluster of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation pose for a picture at the luncheon.
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About 100 attendees joined the luncheon seminar in Houston, Texas
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