Businesses everywhere are under pressure to export, source and produce more competitively. Hong Kong-Plus provides that edge through a potent combination of Hong Kong's world-class business platform, and the manufacturing and consumer powerhouse of the neighbouring Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the Chinese mainland.

Companies from all over the world achieve maximum return by utilising Hong Kong to manage their high-value services for China, while decentralising other activities into the PRD. Hong Kong can be used as a platform for selling to the highly attractive, fast growing consumer region of the PRD, where brand-conscious buyers have one of the higher annual per capital incomes in the Chinese mainland.

The PRD is also one of the most cost-effective manufacturing basins in the world, benefiting Hong Kong-based firms in sourcing components. For successful distribution throughout China as well as exporting quality, low-cost products the world over, the delta is the perfect location for establishing manufacturing or assembly facilities. Hong Kong- based firms have done this successfully in large scale, with 65,000 Hong Kong-managed manufacturing facilities in the PRD region employing six million workers.