ForeSight 2025
15 January 2025 (Wednesday)
14:30 – 16:30
Conference Hall, 4/F, HKPC Building,
78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Cantonese and Mandarin
Event Details
Welcome Remarks
Hon Sunny TAN assumed the chairmanship of the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) in August 2022.
As a seasoned industrialist, he is currently a Member of the Legislative Council representing the Textiles and Garment functional constituency and Senior Advisor to Luen Thai Holdings Limited, a leading fashion and lifestyle apparel and accessories manufacturer, for which he has served for more than two decades. He is also Executive Deputy Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and Executive Vice Chairman of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Textiles. In 2013, he received the “Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong”.
Hon Sunny TAN has a strong record of public and community service. He is a member of the Committee on Innovation, Technology and Industry Development; the Trade and Industry Advisory Board; the Vocational Training Council; and the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Design Centre. He is also a Standing Committee member of the Hebei Province Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Hon Sunny TAN obtained a Master of Science degree from Stanford University and Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ForeSight Keynote Speech
Professor Justin Yifu Lin is a professor and dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, honorary dean of the National School of Development and honorary dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. In 1994, he founded the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University (now the National School of Development at Peking University) and served as its director. In 2008, he was appointed as the chief economist of the World Bank and senior vice president in charge of development economics, becoming the first person from a developing country to hold this important position. In 2012, after his tenure at the World Bank ended, he returned to Peking University and continued his teaching and research work. Justin Yifu Lin is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of its Economic Committee. He previously served as a counselor of the State Council and vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from the 7th to the 10th terms, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the 10th term, a deputy to the 11th National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Economic Committee in the 12th and 13th terms, and member of the expert committee for the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plan, deputy chairman of the expert committee for the 13th, 14th and 15th Five-Year Plan. He holds concurrent positions in multiple committees and leading groups related to development policies, agriculture, and poverty reduction at home and abroad. He was elected as a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from ten universities in Britain, France, the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong.
His major works include more than 20 volumes such as "On China's Economy", "Beating the Odds", "Going Beyond Aid", "Quest for Prosperity", "Demystifying the Chinese Economy", "New Structural Economics", "Against the Consensus", "Benti and Changwu", "Sufficient Information and State-owned Enterprises Reform" and "The China Miracle". He has published more than 300 papers in academic journals at home and abroad.
ForeSight Leaders Panel
How “New Productive Forces” Navigate a New Stage Beyond Hong Kong Economy
The session aims to explore on how Hong Kong leverages innovative technology, especially smart manufacturing, microfactory, low-altitude economy, SME development and more to unleash unique advantages and create new prospects towards the development strategy in the new year in 2025.
The audience, comprising leaders of big and small companies across various industries, will gain valuable insights from the insightful sharing from panel speakers. In mastering how to leverage unique resource endowments and develop modern industries with comparative advantages, they can enhance productivity standard and production related industry and technique, accelerating the transformation of economic structure with economic and societal growth.