{"id":912509,"date":"2026-06-13T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/uzbek-firms-urged-to-use-hk-as-springboard-to-mainland\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:12:58","slug":"uzbek-firms-urged-to-use-hk-as-springboard-to-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/uzbek-firms-urged-to-use-hk-as-springboard-to-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek firms urged to use HK as springboard to mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tChief Executive John Lee appealed to Uzbek businesses on Wednesday to use Hong Kong as a springboard to expand their operations into the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe made the remarks at a business forum attended by Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, who is leading a delegation of senior officials and business leaders here for an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cFor Uzbek enterprises here with us, if you are looking to tap into the vast Chinese market, Hong Kong is your ideal partner,\u201d Lee said. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHong Kong speaks the language of international business. Our financial experts can help you raise capital. Our lawyers, accountants and arbitration specialists can guide you and your business every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nLee also said Hong Kong and Uzbekistan are building stronger government and business ties for good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe stressed that the high-level visit \u201cspeaks volumes about the strength of the relations between Uzbekistan and China.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nLee said he is confident that Hong Kong and Uzbekistan would build on their existing cooperation and explore more \u201cmutually rewarding partnership\u201d opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CE and Aripov also witnessed the exchange of bilateral agreements that had been signed by representatives from China and Uzbekistan on enhancing cooperation between the two countries.    <\/p>\n<p>\nThe bilateral agreements cover several strategic sectors, such as energy, agriculture, and air cargo. <\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier in the day, Lee and senior officials met Aripov at Government House to exchange views on further strengthening cooperation between the two places.<\/p>\n<p>\nLee also welcomed more young people from Uzbekistan to pursue further studies and develop their careers in Hong Kong, aiming to enhance people-to-people and cultural ties between the two places.<\/p>\n<p><span my=\"my\"><i>Edited by Tony Sabine<\/i><\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1853744-20260506.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive John Lee appealed to Uzbek businesses on Wednesday to use Hong Kong as a springboard to expand their operations into the mainland. He made the remarks at a business forum attended by Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, who is leading a delegation of senior officials and business leaders here for an official visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,148098],"tags":[6751,148097],"class_list":["post-912509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-firms","category-uzbek","tag-firms","tag-uzbek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}