{"id":86858,"date":"2018-05-01T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lack-of-innovation-and-incentives-holding-back-hong-kong-from-becoming-a-smart-city\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T01:03:20","slug":"lack-of-innovation-and-incentives-holding-back-hong-kong-from-becoming-a-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lack-of-innovation-and-incentives-holding-back-hong-kong-from-becoming-a-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of innovation and incentives holding back Hong Kong from becoming a smart city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nHong Kong will find it difficult to overtake pacesetters Singapore and Shenzhen in the race to become a smart city if the government delays implementing the goals outlined in the Smart City Blueprint released in December, according to an expert.\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout 500 smart city pilot projects are currently under way in China, while Singapore\u2019s Smart Nation plan has contributed to its top ranking in last year\u2019s Global Smart City Performance Index.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cShenzhen\u2019s&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/2144092\/lack-innovation-and-incentives-holding-back-hong-kong-becoming-smart-city\" target=\"_blank\">Lack of innovation and incentives holding back Hong Kong from becoming a smart city<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Hong Kong will find it difficult to overtake pacesetters Singapore and Shenzhen in the race&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-mAW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81280,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/more-incentives-are-needed-to-make-hong-kong-a-smart-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":86858,"position":0},"title":"More incentives are needed to make Hong Kong a &#039;smart city&#039;","date":"February 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Denis Ma of JLL says more financial incentives to encourage innovation and technology are needed in Hong Kong's drive to become a smart city.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...More incentives are needed to make Hong Kong a 'smart city'","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":96395,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/data-centres-to-become-rising-investment-class-amid-hong-kongs-smart-city-bid\/","url_meta":{"origin":86858,"position":1},"title":"Data centres to become rising investment class amid Hong Kong\u2019s smart city bid","date":"August 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hong Kong has the potential to be a regional technology centre and play home to more data centres. 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