Hong Kong Design Centre Welcomes the Extra Sources to Foster the Improvement of Hong Kong into an East-meets-West Centre for Worldwide Cultural

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 23 February 2023 – Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) strongly helps the 2023-24 Finances Deal with delivered by the Monetary Secretary, Mr Paul Chan, on fostering the event of Hong Kong into an East-meets-West Centre for worldwide cultural change, specifically the injection of further sources into the CreateSmart Initiative to assist the artistic industries for encouraging extra cross-sectoral and cross-genre collaboration on artistic and cultural programmes.

HKDC Chairman, Prof. Eric Yim, remarked, ‘The unleash of the design energy in Hong Kong may assist improve the competitiveness and higher fulfil our key roles below the 14th 5-Yr Plan. Profiting from these immense alternatives, HKDC will strengthen our mission of elevating Hong Kong’s place as a global design centre in Asia by means of signature occasions like Enterprise of Design Week (BODW) and different programmes. We are going to proceed to work intently with totally different companions and stakeholders to strengthen the artistic industries and foster the continual development of the design economic system.’

Hong Kong’s positioning as an East‑meets‑West centre for worldwide cultural change has been laid out clearly as one of many main instructions for Hong Kong and its essential roles in nationwide improvement, in accordance with the 14th 5-Yr Plan. In fulfilling this position, HKDC believes a complete blueprint for fostering the event of the Design Business and Economic system together with nurturing a various expertise pool, enriching arts, cultural and artistic content material in addition to upgrading cultural infrastructure is essential not solely to convey important cultural values to Hong Kong but in addition make the design business turn into a major driver of financial and environmental values to the broader economic system and group.

HKDC welcomes the extra sources for the CreateSmart Initiative and funding assist to be offered to implement the flagship occasions and incubation programmes. Enterprise of Design Week (BODW), HKDC’s annual flagship occasion since 2002, Design Incubation Programme (DIP) and Trend Incubation Programme (FIP) serve the roles in facilitating artistic exchanges and showcasing Hong Kong and Mainland skills to the remainder of the world in addition to nurturing the design skills.

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About Hong Kong Design Centre

A non-governmental organisation registered in 2001 and established in 2002, Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is a strategic companion of the HKSAR Authorities in establishing Hong Kong as a global centre of design excellence in Asia. Our public mission is to advertise wider and strategic use of design and design considering to create enterprise worth and enhance societal well-being. Be taught extra about us at www.hkdesigncentre.org.