Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a city of many identities: a community of fishing villages, a refuge for immigrants, an international port and a former British colony. Today it continues to question its personality as it finds its place as part of modern China. It’s a city where luxury boutiques sit next to independent cafés, where steel towers dwarf old shop-houses selling dried seafood. One moment you’ll be walking along a busy street; the next you’ll be on a quiet mountain trail, looking down at the lights reflecting off Victoria Harbour – the historic source of Hong Kong’s riches and focal point of the modern city.
Hong Kong is one of Asia’s most connected business hubs. It has changed rapidly over the years as a result of political and economic turbulence. Overcoming the odds and proving naysayers wrong is in Hong Kong’s DNA – and the city is in the midst of another transformation. A new generation of business leaders, hoteliers and entrepreneurs, local and foreign, are rising to the challenge. Competition from the neighbouring city of Shenzhen is forcing Hong Kong to up its game. But the unique geography of Hong Kong is impossible to replicate. The proximity of heart-pumping thrills and spills cannot be found anywhere else in the world, from bidding huge sums for world-class contemporary art to wakeboarding across the sea and paragliding off a mountain.
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