Hong Kong's Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau used a Shanghai visit and remarks by Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui at the 2026 Lujiazui Forum to set out its view of future Shanghai-Hong Kong financial co-operation. In that context, Hui framed the partnership around three themes: comprehensiveness, long-term value and synergy, with a focus on how Hong Kong can support Mainland enterprises expanding overseas through treasury management, capital allocation, risk management and cross-border financial services. Supporting that message, the delegation visited the Shanghai Pudong Service Center for Overseas Investment and held discussions with four Shanghai companies seeking international expansion, presenting Hong Kong's financial, legal and professional services offering and the support available for overseas growth via Hong Kong. Hui also pointed to measures already announced or agreed, including Hong Kong's recent action plan to promote corporate treasury centres through additional tax benefits, greater tax certainty and more compliance flexibility, and an earlier co-operation agreement with the Shanghai Gold Exchange to establish a Hong Kong gold central clearing system. Before concluding the trip, the delegation also met China Taiping Insurance Group management to discuss developments in the insurance industry in the Mainland and Hong Kong and the outcomes of connectivity between the two markets.

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