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Hong Kong has been ranked as the world's most free economy by the Heritage Foundation (HF) for 12 consecutive years in its 2006 Index of Economic Freedom study released in Welcoming the study results, financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, Henry Tang, said the encouraging news showed that According to the foundation, Hong Kong's virtues lie in its free port with no barriers to trade; low level of government intervention; high degree of transparency; the rule of law; streamlined and uniformly applied business regulations; strictly enforced yet non-burdensome labor regulations; simple procedures for investing and running businesses; free capital flows and foreign investment; minimum restrictions in banking and finance; largely market-determined wages and prices, stringent protection of property rights and low level of informal market activities.
"We will continue to strive to preserve fervently those strong aspects of our economic freedom, while enhancing those other aspects where there is room for further improvement," Tang said. He said the HKSAR government would continue to follow the principle of "market leads, government facilitates" and provide a business-friendly environment for all firms to compete on a level-playing field while maintaining an appropriate regulatory regime to ensure the integrity and smooth functioning of a free market. "The government is firmly committed to maintaining The study covered a total of 157 economies worldwide and measured how well they scored on a list of 50 independent variables grouped into 10 broad factors of economic freedom. According to the foundation, Hong Kong and
(Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2006) |
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