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Commerce and Industry

Position of Inward Direct Investment in

Hong Kong at Market Value by

Major Investor Country/Territory at the end of 2012

Japan

Others

Singapore

1.8% ($173.8 billion)

2.1% ($204.5 billion)

United States of America

3.1% ($294.9 billion)

Bermuda

6.4% ($615.8 billion)

Netherlands

7% ($671.1 billion)

10% ($963.4 billion)

The mainland of China

37% ($3,568.3 billion)

British Virgin Islands

32.7% ($3,154.8 billion)

Chart 3

Position of Inward Direct Investment in

Hong Kong at Market Value by Major Economic Activity of Hong Kong Enterprise Groups at the end of 2012

Financing (except banking,

Transportation, storage, postal

and courier services

2% ($196.6 billion)

investment and holding companies)

3% ($294.1 billion)

Import/export, wholesale

and retail trades

9.2% ($885.5 billion)

Banking

Other activities

5.4% ($520 billion)

11.6% ($1,121.7 billion)

Investment and holding, real estate, professional and business services 68.7% ($6,628.7 billion)

As at June 2013, Hong Kong was host to 7,449 overseas, Mainland and Taiwan companies representing parent companies located outside Hong Kong, including 3,835 regional headquarters or regional offices.

The Institutional Framework

Commerce, Industry and Tourism Branch

The Commerce, Industry and Tourism Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau formulates and co-ordinates policies and strategies in relation to Hong Kong's external commercial relations, tourism, inward investment promotion, convention and exhibition services, intellectual property protection, industry and business support, trade facilitation, consumer protection, promotion of competition, postal services and meteorological services. It also oversees the development of policies and programmes for the industrial and trade sectors, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and the promotion of services industries. The branch is assisted by the Trade and Industry Department, Invest Hong Kong, the Customs and

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