John Lee puts Hong Kong’s global identity at the heart of five-year plan

Hong Kong’s five-year plan puts the city’s international character and free-market identity at its centre, John Lee said, according to South China Morning Post. He presented those qualities as fundamental to the city.

Lee described Hong Kong’s global character and free-market identity as part of its “DNA”, according to South China Morning Post.

For business readers, the economic message is the emphasis on Hong Kong as both a global city and a market where businesses operate freely. Those are the defining features Lee highlighted in discussing the plan.

The supplied report gives no specific measures or implementation timetable. Details of how the five-year plan expresses those priorities remain the point to watch.