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| Date: | 12 Mar 2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included) |
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HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong. |
| Remarks: | Seats are limited and first-come-first-served. Registration starts one month before the talk. |
| Enquires: | 2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk |
Increasingly, Guangdong-based Hong Kong manufacturers find themselves between a rock and a hard place: hemmed in by the global recession and new policies of China which drive up the cost of imported raw materials and labor costs in new employee benefits. Global eco-friendly trends and a stronger Chinese currency also conspire to eliminate most of the cost advantages of operating in Guangdong. These Hong Kong-owned firms now face either a total shut-down or relocation to remoter regions. But hope comes in the form of innovation and R&D, conducted either independently or in collaboration with Mainland China partners.
