Heiwai TANG
Prof. Heiwai TANG
Economics
Associate Dean (External Relations)
Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics
Director, Asia Global Institute
Director, APEC Study Center
Associate Director, Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy

3917 0029
3917 4388

MB 335/ KK 920

Publications
Positive non-interventionism: An economic philosophy that has impacted HK for half a century

已故港英政府財政司郭伯偉所倡議的不干預政策(non-interventionism),自上世紀六十年代起,一直被奉為香港經濟政策的核心價值,至今已逾半個世紀。他任內曾反對為莘莘學子提供免費教育,更反對政府對經濟作詳細統計及研究,以免政府基於數據而對經濟作出干預!這種今天看來顯得極端的自由放任(laissez-faire)方針,卻因七十年代香港經濟的蓬勃發展,廣被視為最適用於香港這個開放型小經濟體。

Hong Kong Wants to Bring Back Factory Jobs That Left Long Ago

After decades overseeing the outsourcing of electronics production to low-cost destinations in China and Southeast Asia, Roberto Leone has chosen an unlikely location for his latest manufacturing venture: one of Asia’s most expensive cities, Hong Kong. Nirotech Ltd., the company Leone co-founded, has been pumping out 30,000 video door intercoms a month since December from the district of Yuen Long, near the border with mainland China.

影響香港半世紀的積極不干預經濟哲學

已故港英政府財政司郭伯偉所倡議的不干預政策(non-interventionism),自上世紀六十年代起,一直被奉為香港經濟政策的核心價值,至今已逾半個世紀。他任內曾反對為莘莘學子提供免費教育,更反對政府對經濟作詳細統計及研究,以免政府基於數據而對經濟作出干預!這種今天看來顯得極端的自由放任(laissez-faire)方針,卻因七十年代香港經濟的蓬勃發展,廣被視為最適用於香港這個開放型小經濟體。

雙循環|國際形勢劇變 中國戰略調整 香港「山雨欲來風滿樓」

作為中國最國際化的開放高地,在當前國際環境危機四伏下,香港不但無法獨善其身,而且早就「腹背受敵」。全國人大會議早前正式通過邁向現代化藍圖的《中華人民共和國國民經濟和社會發展第十四個五年規劃和2035年遠景目標綱要》(下稱《十四五規劃》),當中確定了「雙循環」戰略,以應對世界百年未有之大變局的複雜挑戰。於內地而言,雙循環戰略已毫無疑問成為中長期主軸;但對香港來說,雙循環卻依然是個問號。

Industry 4.0 needs all gears to mesh

Hong Kong’s reindustrialization strategy, announced in 2016, commits over $12.9 billion to a data center, an advanced manufacturing center, applied research, platforms for medical technology and other ambitious projects. However, policy gaps remain to be filled, reports Oswald Chan from Hong Kong.

疫下食品製造商申資助推智慧生產 學者倡再工業化促進就業

「再工業化」是政府創科政策重點之一,去年當局撥款20億元推行「再工業化資助計劃」,資助工業界設立智能生產線。疫情衝擊飲食業,有餐廳食品生產商利用智能生產,疫下轉型製作面向大眾消費者的包裝預製食品。有學者指,本港推動「再工業化」,可促進多元化就業,創造就業上流的機會;而且有助化解本港產業結構單一問題,為發展創科提供生產及測試環節。

Hong Kong’s axing from Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom rankings a gift that will keep on giving

Market failures related to global finance and Covid-19 should have made policymakers realise that to function well, free markets require sound rules. Hong Kong needs to consider how it can achieve a better state-market balance in a post-pandemic world rather than cling to outmoded ideas of the free market.

再工業化 ‧ 一 | 正視「再工業化」錯誤 帶領「香港製造」重生

特區政府總愛參考國際經驗,推出一些看似「高大上」的方針,卻忽略香港實際情況,執行起來更是雜亂無章,例如2016年度《施政報告》提出的「再工業化」,便是典型的失敗例子。香港工廠自上世紀八十年代開始北移,如今只剩下食品、飲品、煙草、電子設備及化學製品等少量輕工製造業活動,生產總值和勞動人口佔全港比例也分別減少至1%和2%;然而,當局一方面高呼「再工業化」,另一方面卻從沒全面檢視傳統工業的升級困難和發展困局,根本無法透過通盤而精準的產業政策協助他們激活甚至新增產能,結果令「香港製造」買少見少。

Rebooting Hong Kong’s economy

Decimated by the triple whammy of lingering trade frictions between the world’s two largest economies, the COVID-19 pandemic and a deglobalization trend, Hong Kong’s economy shrank a record 6.1 percent in 2020.