The city is wired into the overseas-Chinese network by bonds of language and history,has its Guangdong indus trial hinterland and will remain the international?financeraising centre of Chi na even as Shanghai develops a far larger domestic-finance base.

• 香港凭借语言和历史的纽带，融入到海外华人网络中，香港还有广东这一工业内地，即使上海形成了一个比香港要大得多的国内金融基地，香港仍将保持其作为中国国际融资中心的地位。