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In 2006, the value of initial public offerings (IPO) conducted in Hong Kong was second highest in the world after London. [67] In 2009, Hong Kong raised 22 percent of IPO capital, becoming the largest centre of IPOs in the world. [68] The exchange is the world's 10th largest by turnover and third largest in China. [a] [citation needed]
Public holidays in Hong Kong consist of a mix of traditional Chinese and Western holidays, such as Lunar New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival, along with Christmas and Easter. Other public holidays include National Day (1 October) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (1 July). [1] [2]
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non ... Hong Kong [31] 17 17 ... This page was last edited on 26 December 2024, ...
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
Hong Kong’s economy has struggled to regain momentum since it reopened after more than two years of self-imposed Covid isolation. In 2023, its GDP grew 3.2%, thanks to a low base in 2022, but it ...
Hong Kong's economy contracted 1.4% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, advance government data showed on Monday, as exports and investments remained sluggish, and COVID-19 ...
The first set of data on the left columns of the table includes estimates for the year 2023 made for each economy of the 196 economies (189 U.N. member states and 7 areas of Aruba, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Macau, Palestine, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan) covered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s International Financial Statistics (IFS) database ...
Anti-government protests in 2019, followed by Beijing’s swift imposition of a sweeping national security law in 2020 and three years of draconian COVID lockdowns prompted an exodus of tens of ...