US-based analytics platform Tableau (NYSE: DATA), which offers data visualization and analytics software that it says are easy enough for non-technical people to use, opened an office in Hong Kong las ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-08
There is a view that not much has really happened on the ground since the Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative was launched a few years ago and the Outline Development Plan for that was released in Febru ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-14
Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province will establish a technology and innovation corridor encompassing their regions as part of efforts to tighten cooperation in the Greater Bay Area. Edmond Lai Shi ...More
EJ Insight2019-06-13
The government has earmarked HK$300 million in the latest budget to set up a one-stop data supermarket or the Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI). Also, a “spatial service information platform” ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-04
According to the latest Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), these were the ranks of some of the cities around the world in terms of liveability in 2018: Vienna ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-27
I recently bumped into Nicholas Yang Wei-hsiung, the Secretary for Innovation and Technology, at an event, and took the opportunity to discuss the prospects for innovation and technology development i ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-25
In both Hong Kong's newly released budget and the central government’s Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (“GBA Plan”) issued in mid-February, a geospatial dat ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-04
The central government last week released the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) to spur growth in Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities of Guangdong province ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-25
一、 二○一七年十月，李克強總理宣布中央政府正在籌劃拓展「粵港澳大灣區」，迄今只有一年多，有關《規劃綱要》已於 ...全文
The world has a demand problem, and it is dealing with it all wrong. Rather than allowing itself to be harmed by other countries’ problematic policies, China must work to create its own demand by maki ...More
EJ Insight2018-08-29
In April this year, a delegation led by Zhanjiang City Mayor Jiang Jianjun visited the headquarters of BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He was blown away by what he saw. Its “Verbund” site is the larges ...More
EJ Insight2018-07-20
一、 二○一七年十月，李克強總理提出籌劃拓建「粵港澳大灣區」之後，有關工作全速進行，負責此事的韓正副總理（兼中 ...全文
Every morning thousands of people in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens get up early, eat a hurried breakfast, kiss their loved ones goodbye and start a long commuting journey by rail, road and ferry to a ...More
EJ Insight2018-06-04
Since Chinese Premier Li Keqiang put forward the idea of developing a city cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) in March 2017, the concept has gained increasing momentum ove ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-07
