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Hong Kong’s Panda Economy: A New Highlight for the Tourism Industry
A pair of giant pandas gifted to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by the central government were transported to Hong Kong, officially launching Hong Kong’s project to build a panda economy to drive the tourism industry chain. Together with a family of four in Ocean Park, Hong Kong has a total of six national treasures, large and small, in captivity, setting off a wave of Panda fever.
In July this year, the SAR government announced that the central government had agreed to donate another pair of giant pandas to Hong Kong. Unexpectedly, more than a month later, Ying Ying, an elderly panda mother in Ocean Park, suddenly gave birth to twins without notice. Hong Kong was suddenly blessed with ”four joys” and shocked the public.
To be honest, there has been a lot of good news about Hong Kong’s economy recently. The international financial center ranking has surpassed its old rival Singapore and returned to the third place in the world. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s fund-raising ranking this year will maintain the fourth place in the world.
It is expected that the panda craze in Hong Kong will usher in two climaxes in the next six months. First, a pair of giant pandas donated by the central government will be named and officially unveiled. About early next year, it will be the turn of the twin pandas to make their adorable debut.
There is no doubt that Panda Hot is a new highlight of Hong Kong’s tourism industry. It is expected to attract more Chinese and foreign tourists to Hong Kong, help boost the market and inject new impetus into the sluggish retail and catering and other peripheral industries.
Recalling the painful experience of Hong Kong Disneyland, the SAR government at that time made the mistake of “waiting for the goods to arrive”. It thought that introducing Disneyland would become the leader in the tourism industry, and then it would be safe and sound.
The recovery of Hong Kong’s tourism industry after the epidemic is not as expected, and the industry is complaining. The SAR government has tried its best to engage in measures such as nighttime economy and event economy to attract tourists.
The panda craze brought about by the right time, right place and right people is expected to usher in new opportunities for Hong Kong’s tourism industry. It is expected to continue for a long period of rebound.
The SAR government and the industry must learn from the blind optimism and blind optimism of Disneyland back then. We should not only seize the day and night to make good use of the business opportunities of the panda boom, but also seize the opportunity of a century, seize the golden opportunity when the good times come again, diversify the tourism industry’s ten-year capital, and truly ensure that tourists can travel everywhere in Hong Kong, and every time they come back Tours are all fresh and fresh.
It can drive the prosperity of related industries, such as the retail industry, catering industry, hotel industry, conference and exhibition industry, etc., and can also create a large number of job opportunities, including the engineering industry, etc., which is conducive to economic recovery; therefore, the development of tourism has become a An important strategy for Hong Kong’s economic transformation.
Text: Dai Ziyu
Senior media person
