To enhance the integrated services of the four existing SME Centres, including SUCCESS under the Trade and Industry Department, the "SME Centre" under the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), "SME One" under the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) and "TecONE" under the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, SUCCESS has launched an "Event Calendar of the SME Centres" on its website. The Event Calendar facilitates enterprises to obtain information on seminars/workshops/activities organised by the four SME Centres from a single platform, and also provides links to the relevant event web pages to facilitate registration.

Please click here to browse the Event Calendar of the SME Centres.

Amid difficult business environment, HKPC knows SMEs are in the urgent need of cash to keep business running.  The newly established "SME ReachOut" support team is here to help SMEs well equip for bouncing back, through introducing and matching the appropriate funding schemes. 

To support enterprises in exploring more diversified markets, the Government has injected $1.5 billion into the BUD Fund in April 2021 and will launch enhancement measures by phases from July 2021 including –

1. extending the geographical coverage from all economies with which Hong Kong has signed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) to also include all economies with which Hong Kong has signed Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (IPPAs); and
2. increasing the cumulative funding ceiling per enterprise from $4 million to $6 million.

A comparison of the current and enhanced funding scope and ceilings is set out below.
 

1. So far Hong Kong has signed eight FTAs covering 20 economies, namely the Mainland, New Zealand, the four member states of the European Free Trade Association (i.e. Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), Chile, Macao, the ten member states of the ASEAN (comprising Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), Georgia and Australia.
2. So far Hong Kong has signed 22 IPPAs covering 31 foreign economies, namely the ten member states of the ASEAN, Australia, Austria, Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand (an ASEAN member state), the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) has been engaged as the implementation partner of the BUD Fund to implement the funding scheme.  HKPC also regularly organises seminars/webinars in order to enhance enterprises’ understanding of the BUD Fund.  For details of the BUD Fund, please visit its website (https://www.bud.hkpc.org/en) or contact HKPC at 2788 6088.

Upcoming event for June 2021 is as follows:

Enterprises are welcome to join the webinar.

T-box X HKSME Workshop on "WeChat"

Webinar on "Effective Credit Analysis & Debt Control Management"