About Us

Established in 1995, the China Hong Kong Economic Trading International Association (CHKETIA) is composed of a group of passionate and ambitious entrepreneurs, industry leaders from various sectors, and renowned financial and economic scholars. The association is formerly known as the China-Hong Kong Business Association, a non-profit statutory business association registered and gazetted by the Hong Kong government.

For the last twenty years, CHKETIA has invited and received over one hundred delegations from various provinces and municipalities in China. Leveraging Hong Kong's unique advantages as an international centre, the association integrates into the national development agenda, utilises Hong Kong's expertise to meet the country's needs, builds bridges for mutual understanding between China and the world, and effectively promotes economic and trade exchanges and investment cooperation between Hong Kong and overseas with the mainland as the focal point.

The association consists of fifteen professional committees and has over one thousand individual, corporate, and group members. Among them are thirty-five listed companies with a total market capitalisation of over HKD 1.2 trillion. The members operate businesses in various sectors, including international trade, financial investment, real estate development, cultural creativity, technology and manufacturing, tourism, education and training, gold and jewellery, healthcare and elderly care, food and dining, green products, and modern logistics. It is one of the oldest representative business associations in the Hong Kong region that focuses on participating in China's economic and trade exchanges and investment cooperation.