PCI-6115  RTHK website on November 8 news, the Hong Kong Productivity Council and the School of Economics and Management of the University of Hong Kong conducted a “Hong Kong re-industrialization study” from July to September, the team invited a number of large enterprises in Hong Kong to conduct focus group discussions, and found that many enterprises believe that “new generation of semiconductors” is an emerging industry with great potential for “re-industrialization”.

PCI-6115  Mr Lai Siu-bin, Chief Digital Officer of HKPC, said that at present, the world is facing the chip shortage problem, and the country is also interested in developing its own next-generation semiconductor technology and a complete supply chain, and it is believed that Hong Kong can target market demand for development, such as the establishment of a chip design centre, to attract related companies from all over the world to settle in Hong Kong.

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PCI-6115  Lai Shao-bin also said that Hong Kong has a good intellectual property protection system, has an absolute advantage to attract a new generation of semiconductor manufacturers to set up factories in Hong Kong, in the long run through the “northern metropolitan area” can also gather the entire industrial chain.

PCI-6115  The research team also interviewed 184 local enterprises in the form of questionnaires, of which more than half of the food, health and green technology local enterprises believe that the primary advantage of developing “Industry 4.0” is to improve productivity, 52% of the surveyed enterprises plan to relocate or expand production processes to Hong Kong, about 40% of the factory area of 10,000 feet (about 929 square meters) or less is sufficient. But most face the challenge of not having enough space to set up automated production lines.

PCI-6115  In addition, only 28% of the companies surveyed said they were confident that they would find the right talent for Industry 4.0 jobs in the next 1-2 years.