Hong Kong holds the unwanted distinction of being the most US-sanctioned territory in China, with more than 300 entities blacklisted by Washington in a bid to curb Beijing’s technological rise.
But the government maintains that a backlash from Washington will not stop Hong Kong from becoming an international technology hub, in line with an initiative that seeks to bypass technological containment through deepened partnerships with the mainland.
Anchored by the cross-border Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, the initiative could turn Hong Kong into China’s quantum gateway to the world, according to one of the country’s leading experts in the field.
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Guo Guoping, chief scientist and co-founder of the firm Origin Quantum, said the core of China’s drive to develop quantum computing lay in building a “complete, self-controllable, scalable, and industrialisable quantum computing system”.
This would include developing partnerships between mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), particularly through the Hetao cross-border technology hub, he said.
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Guo, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, made the remarks in a written statement provided via email to South China Morning Post after an interview request at last month’s “two sessions” legislative and advisory meetings in Beijing.
