Property News · February 15, 2020

What is the future for Hong Kong’s luxury retailers, as China’s big spenders avoid city of protests and coronavirus quarantines?


Zhang Zisheng has stopped shopping in Hong Kong. The 24-year-old salesman no longer feels welcome, even if his home in Jiangmen is a mere 90-minutes’ ride away on the high-speed rail, and he speaks the same Cantonese as Hong Kong’s residents.“I’m worried that I, as a mainland Chinese visitor, may be physically attacked” in Hong Kong amid the city’s anti-government protests, which have taken on a nativist slant in recent months against visitors coming across the southern Chinese border, Zhang…

Source : South China Morning Post
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