Hong Kong Chief Policy Group Digital Finance Symposium: Moving from Financial Innovation to Serving the Real Economy and Promoting High-Quality Financial Development

Comparative news, according to Sing Tao Headline, the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Policy Group held a digital finance symposium on February 8, 2026. Participants include experts such as the research team of the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yuancoin Technology, a member of the Web3.0 Development Task Force, and former CEO of the Monetary Authority Chen Delin. The conference discussed how Hong Kong can help the country build a financial power through high-quality development of digital finance. The focus is on three major aspects: application scenarios of digital finance, balancing supervision and innovative development, connecting with mainland digital finance infrastructure and achieving collaborative development.

Chief Executive Policy Team leader Huang Yuanshan said that Hong Kong should seize the digital wave and help the goal of becoming a financial power by promoting high-quality financial development. Hong Kong has the advantages of technological infrastructure, active market and policy environment. Digital finance applications should shift from financial innovation to serving the real economy, such as promoting the tokenization of assets and expanding to real-world assets such as precious metals and renewable energy to solve problems such as poor liquidity and complicated transactions of traditional assets.