HKIC Releases 2025 Annual Report: Socio-Economic Benefits Continue to Materialize, Continuously Enhancing Hong Kong's Comprehensive Advantages in Serving National Strategies and Participating in Global Tech Competition

On July 16, 2026, the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited ("HKIC") released its 2025 Annual Report, comprehensively disclosing its progress across financial performance, investment layout, and ecosystem building.

Socio-Economic Benefits Continue to Materialize

The annual report shows that for the year ended December 31, 2025, HKIC realized total investment income of over HKD 6.4 billion, an increase of approximately 175% over the previous year, with the investment portfolio achieving a net internal rate of return (IRR) of 14%. As of the end of 2025, the company's total assets reached approximately HKD 69.7 billion, representing a growth of about 9% compared to approximately HKD 64.0 billion in 2024.

As of the end of June 2026, strategically aligning with the national layout for emerging industries, HKIC has accumulated over 200 investment projects. These investments cover three key strategic tracks: hard technology, life and health technology, and new energy and green technology, alongside their related application areas. The capital-attracting effect exceeded a 1:8 ratio; that is, every HKD 1 invested by HKIC has leveraged over HKD 8 in long-term market capital, spanning diverse international market institutions such as overseas sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.

Regarding public listing progress, 10 portfolio companies have already listed in Hong Kong, with more than 30 additional companies having submitted or preparing to submit their Hong Kong IPO applications in 2026.

HKIC's value is reflected not only in financial returns but also in its sustained contributions to Hong Kong's socio-economy. The annual report disclosed that portfolio companies have leased over 500,000 square meters of commercial floor space in Hong Kong, created more than 7,200 local jobs, registered 258 intellectual properties, hosted 316 industry events, and engaged in 170 collaborative projects with local universities. These metrics demonstrate that HKIC's investments are penetrating deeply from the capital level into all socio-economic facets of Hong Kong, including technological innovation, industrial expansion, and local employment.

Clara Chan, Chief Executive Officer of HKIC, stated that HKIC's investment principles and practices are progressively transitioning from capital investment to a new stage of industrial empowerment, ecosystem building, and strategic leadership. She further pointed out that as the initial strategic layout matures, the synergistic effects among the targeted tracks and related application areas continue to deepen. HKIC's investment footprint has evolved from single-project investments to a systematic ecosystem upgrade, forming a coordinated developmental pattern of "points, lines, and planes." By connecting individual investment projects into robust industrial chains, HKIC further promotes the deep integration of the innovation, industrial, capital, and talent chains to realize economic and social value where "one plus one is far greater than two."

Continuously Enhancing Hong Kong's Comprehensive Advantages in Serving National Strategies and Participating in Global Tech Competition

As the patient capital investment flagship established and wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government, HKIC is rooted in Hong Kong while aligning with overarching national development strategies. It bridges national technological innovation strategies, Hong Kong's advantages as an international financial center, and global innovation resources.

This year marks the inaugural year of the national "15th Five-Year Plan" and a critical window for cultivating new quality productive forces, building a modern industrial system, and achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Representing the Hong Kong SAR Government as its patient capital investment flagship, HKIC will continue to play a crucial platform role connecting national strategy, global capital, frontier technology, and industrial execution. Deeply integrating into the broader context of the national "15th Five-Year Plan," HKIC will more precisely guide market forces and professional management. Under the premise of balancing development and security, it organically integrates national needs, Hong Kong's strengths, and corporate capabilities to promote the deep integration of technological, industrial, and financial innovation. This translates into stronger developmental momentum—not only providing a sustained driving force for Hong Kong's future industrial development but also continuously enhancing Hong Kong's comprehensive advantages in serving national strategies and participating in global technological competition.

Looking ahead, HKIC will continue to actively expand its strategic layout in fields including brain-computer interfaces, commercial aerospace, and digital and financial infrastructure, staying at the forefront of global innovation. Relying on the country's comprehensive industrial system, massive domestic market, and continuously improving technological innovation capabilities, HKIC will fully leverage Hong Kong's unique advantage of "connecting the mainland and linking the globe." It aims to facilitate the docking of global innovation resources and international long-term capital with high-quality tech industries in the mainland, driving more premium enterprises to use Hong Kong as a comprehensive platform to accelerate technology R&D, commercialization of research results, financing and listing, and international expansion. Through these efforts, HKIC will continuously translate investment outcomes into new momentum for Hong Kong's industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.

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