香港近年積極發展金融科技，香港數碼港行政總裁任景信表示，很幸運數碼港能夠聚集一群有志創業創新的年輕人。全球面臨科研人才短缺，尤其人工智慧和數據分析方面，但這代表行業發展潛力強。樂見香港鼓勵傳統行業轉型，香港金融科技發展機會多，對人才需求增長非常快，有利創科發展。

主持︰How are we doing at talent attraction at the local level and on the international level? And how are they doing?

我們在吸引本地人才以及國際人才的方面做得如何？他們的表現又是怎樣的？

嘉賓︰For us, to become an international innovation and technology center, we can't do without really attracting talents from all over the world and grooming our local talents to establish that. So this is something of utmost importance to us.

我們要成為一個國際創科中心，那就必須要能夠真正吸引世界各地的人才，並培養我們的本地人才才能建成，這對我們來說是最重要的事情。

HK actually has a lot of advantages, in the sense that we have a very established environment. We have in particular for fintech, for financial technology, for example. We have been an international finance center for so many years, so we have this a very conducive business environment.

香港其實有很多優勢，比如金融科技方面環境非常成熟。這麼多年來，我們一直是國際金融中心，所以有這樣一個非常有利的商業環境。

We have a lot of talents we may not know, locally developed, locally groomed that are very aware of financial concepts, financial services and so on. Now we living in HK may not realize that, because on a day-to-day basis, we are exposed to these things. Now if you go to other cities, you may not find that many people who are very knowledgeable about stock trading about what exactly different financial products are and so on.

我們擁有很多我們可能不知道的人才，是本地發展培養起來的，並且非常了解金融概念、金融服務等。現在我們因為生活在香港，可能沒有意識到這一點，因為我們每天都會接觸到這些東西；但如果你去其他城市，你可能會發現並沒有很多人是對股票交易非常了解的，或者是清楚不同的金融產品是什麼。

But in HK, these are in a way general knowledge for a lot of people. So this actually is a reflection of the environment advantage that we have, not to mention that we have quite a lot of established companies in HK that are internationally renowned. They will have a lot of best practice experience in working with them, we can then learn or adopt a lot of these experience and probably do it better to extend our service to other parts of the world. All these things are something that we already have, We just have to leverage more and to make the best use of it.

不過在香港，這些在某種程度上是很多人知道的常識，實際上反映了我們的環境優勢。更何況香港有很多國際知名的成熟的公司，它們有很多實踐經驗，在與他們的合作中，我們可以學習或採用這些經驗，並可能做得更好，將我們的服務擴展到世界其他地方。所有這些東西都是我們已經擁有的，只需要好好權衡，充分利用。

But what fundamental is the key factor in attracting talents is opportunity. People may say that HK is very expensive. There are a lot of things that people may find difficult to settle in HK, difficult to find good schools, difficult to find a good place to live, not spacious enough and so on. This is the same with a lot of metropolitan cities. If you go to New York, if you go to London or California, San Jose, or San Francisco and so on, they have the same issue, they have the same problem. It's very expensive living there too, and it's difficult to find a lot of good living conditions and spacious conditions and so on. But why would people still go there? Because there are opportunities .

不過，吸引人才最根本的關鍵因素是機會。人們可能會說，香港很貴（成本很高），有很多因素會讓人覺得在香港安定下來很困難，難以找到好的學校，難以找到好的住處，空間不夠大等。其實很多大都市都是這樣的情況，如果你去紐約、倫敦、加州、聖荷西或者三藩市這些地方，他們都有同樣的問題，在那裏生活也非常昂貴，也很難找到很多適宜的居住條件，也有空間不大的這類問題，但為什麼人們還是會去那裏？因為那裏機會很多。

I think the key thing is to develop opportunities, to have an environment that people can also have economic contributions. As a result, they can make money. There are more opportunities for them to set up business to expose to or expand to a bigger market. HK itself cannot sustain this.

我認為關鍵的事情是發展機會、創造環境，讓人們可以做出經濟上的貢獻，讓他們可以賺錢，有更多的機會讓他們建立業務，向更大的市場展示或擴展，而單憑香港本身是無法滿足這點的。

We have been very successful in past many years, and will continue with the backing of the Central Government's policies. We have the Greater Bay Area, huge market that a lot of people would like to come and develop further. And this is a strong attraction for overseas talents.

在過去的許多年中，我們一直非常成功，而在中央政府的政策支持下，我們將繼續如此。我們有大灣區，這是一個巨大的市場，很多人都想來這裏進一步發展，這也是對海外人才的強大吸引力。

We are also in a very advantageous position in Asia. We have very good relations with many Asian cities and countries for a long period of time. So all these are things that can facilitate us in expanding to let these talents base in HK, and develop business all over this region, and in particular GBA and the Mainland market.

我們在亞洲也處於一個非常有利的位置。長期以來，我們與許多亞洲城市和國家保持着非常好的關係，這些優勢促進我們不斷發展，吸引人才在香港立足，並發展業務，特別是大灣區和內地市場。

But how do we facilitate that? To me, the key is really to encourage the digital economy development with more resources turn some of the R&D into applications, and then encourage adoption. We may start with the local adoption, so that they have a good reference, good branding, to then expand to GBA, other Asia countries and so on.

但我們如何促進這一點呢？在我看來，關鍵是要鼓勵發展數字經濟，投入更多資源，把一些研發成果投入應用，然後鼓勵採納這些應用。我們可以從本地推廣開始，這樣他們能先獲取參考經驗，建立好的品牌效應，然後擴展到大灣區其他地區，以及亞洲其他國家。

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