Aligning with China's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the Hong Kong Treasury Department has established four key directions for the financial industry.

On January 22, Chan Ho Lim, Deputy Commissioner of the Hong Kong Financial Services and Treasury Bureau, spoke at a Legislative Council meeting on the motion of "Formulating the Development Vision of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Actively Aligning with the National 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan'", stating that the Hong Kong Treasury Department has formulated a medium to long-term vision to promote the integration of the financial industry and serve the overall national development. The focus is on consolidating and enhancing market advantages, supporting high-quality development of the real economy, deepening internal and external linkages, and safeguarding financial security. Firstly, consolidating and enhancing market advantages. The Hong Kong market is highly open and international, with regulatory alignment with overseas jurisdictions, a strong legal system, a concentration of talent, well-developed infrastructure, and free flow of funds and information. The Hong Kong Treasury Department will continue to enhance the competitiveness of the stock market, facilitate the return of Chinese concept stocks, strengthen the hub for offshore RMB business, enhance liquidity and product tools, and continue to attract family offices to establish themselves, optimize the tax system to strengthen the competitiveness of asset management business. Secondly, creating new growth points to support high-quality development of the real economy. In line with the national "Five Major Articles on Finance", the Hong Kong Treasury Department will promote financial technology and assist mainland Chinese enterprises in financing in Hong Kong; expand new opportunities for commodities and gold trading; accelerate the development of green finance, deepen cooperation with the carbon market pilot in the Greater Bay Area; and explore pension finance, leveraging the advantages of Hong Kong's asset management and insurance industry to develop suitable products. Thirdly, deepening internal and external linkages. The Hong Kong Treasury Department will continue to expand connectivity, including promoting real estate investment trust funds to be included in the "connectivity", launching offshore national debt futures, promoting RMB counters to be included in the Hong Kong Stock Connect, optimizing fast payment system connectivity, using the Greater Bay Area policies as an experimental ground. Hong Kong will also play the role of a "super connector", assisting mainland Chinese companies to "go global", attracting overseas companies and international funds to come in, attracting companies to set up financial centers and exclusive captive companies in Hong Kong, and through financial events such as the ASIA FINANCIAL Forum, Yuze Hong Kong Summit Forum, build exchange platforms, and actively prepare for the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Finance Ministers' Meeting to deepen international cooperation. Fourthly, safeguarding financial security. The "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" suggests improving the macro-prudential management system. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government and regulatory agencies will closely cooperate to optimize market supervision, prevent systemic risks and "black swan" or "grey rhinoceros" events, develop risk plans, and enhance coordination with national financial regulatory authorities to improve cross-border risk monitoring.