March 2025

Recently, Mai Chaojie, Vice President of the Qianhai Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, accompanied Executive Vice President Wang Shouqun and the Qianhai delegation on a week-long business visit to Spain and Switzerland. Centered on the theme of “two-way investment and industrial collaboration,” the delegation visited key organizations including the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, and Spain’s MediaPro Group.

Through high-level economic and trade forums and international resource matchmaking initiatives, the visit injected new momentum into deepening cooperation between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the European market.

On March 6, a World Bank delegation visited the Shenzhen Emissions Exchange (hereinafter referred to as “SZEE”) for research and held discussions with officials from the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Sustainable Development Strategies.

Participants included Lu Chenggang, Division Director of the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment; Liu Chang, Second-level Researcher and Deputy Director of the Climate Change Division of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment; representatives from the Asia-Pacific Institute for Sustainable Development Strategies; as well as Lai Gaoyu, Chairman of the Shenzhen Emissions Exchange; Liu Yang, General Manager; and Lin Yin, Deputy General Manager.

The meeting focused on in-depth discussions regarding cooperation opportunities in the certified voluntary emissions reduction (VER) market.

On March 5, 2025, the “Global Finance and ESG Sustainable Development Summit Forum & the 2nd Victoria Harbour Overseas Excellence Institution Awards Ceremony”, hosted by the Greater Bay Area Financial Professionals Association, China Chengxin Green Finance International, and HashKey Exchange, and supported by InvestHK and the Boham Sustainable Development Center, was held in Hong Kong, China.

With its outstanding performance and practical achievements in the ESG field, the Asia-Pacific Institute for Sustainable Development Strategies (APESG) stood out among numerous institutions and was honored with the prestigious award of “Outstanding ESG Practice Institution of the Year.”