HK's exports to the Chinese mainland in the first quarter this year for outward processing were worth 106 billion HK dollars (13.6 billion U.S. dollars), up 35 percent from a year earlier, the city's Census and Statistics Department said Friday.
Value of HK's re-exports to the mainland for outward processing jumped 37 percent to 104.6 billion HK dollars in the first quarter this year. But the value of domestic exports to the mainland for outward processing dropped 18 percent to 1.4 billion HK dollars.
In the first quarter, value of imports from the mainland related to outward processing rose 28 percent to 165.5 billion HK dollars. On the other hand, 166.4 billion HK dollars of the city's re-exports of mainland origin to other places were produced through outward processing on the mainland, representing an increase of 11 percent.
In the same period, 32 percent of Hong Kong's total exports to China's mainland were for outward processing, while the proportion was 19 percent for domestic exports and 32 percent for re-exports, according to the department.
Some 52 percent of Hong Kong's imports from the mainland were related to outward processing. In the first three months, 73 percent of re-exports of mainland origin to other places were produced through outward processing on the mainland.
The corresponding proportions for exports to the mainland in the first quarter last year were 33 percent for total exports, 31 percent for domestic exports and 33 percent for re-exports.
Proportions for HK's imports from the mainland and for re- exports of mainland origin to other places were 51 percent and 72 percent, respectively, it said.
(1 U.S. dollar equals to 7.784 HK dollars)
In recent years, the "smart city" has gradually become a hot topic, give the public a expectation on better future city life. In the international arena, has been more than 200 "smart city" projects are being implemented. Some domestic cities are taking positive action, Shanghai put forward that take advantage of urban wisdom to building a smart city, Wuhan in October last year, has taken substantive steps to construct smart city, Ningbo in September 2010 to make a decision on building a smart city, then introduced five-year Action Platform for the smart city construction. The city has also been classified as hubs of the province to build a central hub "smart city system. Conform to the wave of smart city, develop intelligent industry in the city to promote the construction of “two districts six cities ", the first to build a moderately prosperous society of a higher level to benefit the whole people, should play an active role.
An "intelligent life", and "smart city" is closer to us
Last year, two reports on Zhejiang may not seem like much, but let us smell the atmosphere of "intelligent life", see the dawn of the "smart city".
The first report: Ningbo held the first China Intelligence Fair, provincial ministries tripartite signed a "smart city" pilot cooperation agreement. September 2, 2011, China's first smart city Expo - 2011 China Smart City technology and application products Exposition "held in Ningbo. Three days exhibition, 310 enterprises participate in the exhibition, 16 total investment of 6.5 billion smart city cooperation projects located in Ningbo.