香港的制度优势以及与内地及全球的紧密联系，可以为亚太地区的繁荣做出贡献，一位为香港领导人提供咨询的关键顾问在会议上如是表示。
Hong Kong’s institutional advantages and close ties with mainland China and the wider world can contribute to the Asia-Pacific region’s prosperity, a key adviser to the city’s leader has told a conference.
香港特首政策局局长黄元山（Stephen Wong Yuen-shan）周一表示，香港正努力将自己打造成该地区的制度“枢纽”——一个能让来自各地区的贸易活动汇聚于此、并充分利用香港“软性连接”优势（即非物理性的互联互通机制）的地方。
Stephen Wong Yuen-shan, head of the Chief Executive’s Policy Unit, said on Monday that Hong Kong was transforming itself into the region’s institutional “harbour” – where trade from regional markets could converge and take advantage of the city’s “soft connectivity” advantages.
他强调，这种“软性连接”有助于将“一国两制”原则下的独特优势转化为有效的区域治理机制，具体方法是将中国的标准融入到整个地区的共同发展进程中。
He said such “soft connectivity” could help transform Hong Kong’s unique advantages under the “one country, two systems” principle into effective regional governance by embedding Chinese standards into the process of sharing prosperity across the region.
黄元山在深圳举行的亚太智库论坛上发表了主旨演讲，重点介绍了香港在推动区域“软性连接”方面的努力，包括推动数字贸易协议、发展碳市场以及完善跨境物流政策。
Wong delivered a keynote address at the Asia-Pacific Think Tank Forum in neighbouring Shenzhen, stressing Hong Kong’s intention to develop regional “soft connectivity”, including digital trade agreements, carbon markets and cross-border logistics policies.
“如今跨越国界的，已不再仅仅是货物（如集装箱）；它还可能是一套规则、一组数据、一个经过验证的数字，或是一份证书，”黄元山在论坛上说道。
“What crosses a border today is no longer just a container. It may also be a rule, a data set, a verified figure or a certificate,” Wong told the forum.
“在‘一国两制’这一独特的制度框架下，不同的法律、货币、海关和监管体系共同存在于一个国家之内。而香港在协调这些体系、推动跨境交流方面积累了宝贵的经验。”黄元山补充道：“近几十年来，亚太地区的物理互联互通水平取得了显著提升。随着贸易日益数字化、服务产业日益重要，以及环保意识日益增强，‘软性连接’很可能会成为该地区下一阶段发展的重要驱动力。”
“Under our unique institutional advantage of one country, two systems, different legal, monetary, customs, and regulatory arrangements operate within one country. “And Hong Kong has accumulated valuable experience in connecting different systems and making cross-border exchanges work in practice.”Wong added: “The Asia-Pacific has achieved an extraordinary expansion of physical connectivity over recent decades. “As trade becomes more digital, services-intensive and environmentally accountable, soft connectivity may become an increasingly important part of the region’s next phase of development.
“香港的贡献可能在于帮助构建这种互联互通。”本周一的论坛由深圳社会科学院和深圳大学主办，旨在纪念中国内地城市下月主办亚太经合组织（APEC）领导人会议。
“Hong Kong’s contribution may therefore lie in helping to build that connectivity.”Monday’s forum was convened by the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences and Shenzhen University to mark the mainland Chinese city’s hosting of the Apec leaders’ meeting next month.
中国是2026年APEC的东道国，主题为“共建亚太共同体，共享繁荣”。
China is the host of Apec 2026, whose theme is “Building an Asia-Pacific community to prosper together”.
“一个共同体，归根到底，是一套相互承认的合同、证书、数据，最终是相互承认，”黄先生补充道。香港将在下周举办亚太经合组织（APEC）财政部长会议。
“A community, in the end, is a set of mutual recognitions of each other’s contracts, certificates, data and, ultimately, each other,” Wong added. Hong Kong will host the finance ministers’ meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum next week.