The Foundation's activities include:

• Outreach Program
• Overseas Visits
• Sponsorship of Visitor Programmes to Hong Kong
• Audio-Visual Materials
• The Hong Kong Advantage

For a review of recent accomplishments by the Foundation, please click here.

Outreach Programme

The Foundation's accomplishments include:

• China Programme
• Education
• U.S. Congressional Visit Programme
• Members' Delegations
• Meeting Programme
• Journalists' Visit Programme
• Special Research Commissioned

China Programme

Strengthening ties and mutual understanding between Hong Kong people and the People's Republic of China

• Regular dialogue with senior Chinese officials, regular meetings with Hong Kong-based representatives of PRC institutions.
• Sponsorship of April 1995 conference in Beijing, "Law and China's External Economic Relations" convening legal experts from China, Hong Kong and the USA for an in-depth assessment of the progress made and needed in the development of China's foreign trade and investment laws and regulations. Arranged in cooperation with the Western Returned Scholars Association (Beijing), the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and The 1990 Institute (San Francisco).
  

Promoting more informed decision making by American legislators on issues of concern to Hong Kong and China

• Sponsorship of visits to Hong Kong & China by U.S. Senators, Congressional Representatives and staff members.*
  
• Participants include members of Congress serving on trade-, Asia- and foreign affairs-related committees with policy impact on Hong Kong and first-term members unfamiliar with Asia.
  
• Provides U.S. politicians and government officials visiting Hong Kong with a broad spectrum of public & private sector views on Hong Kong's economic & political relationships with China, Asia, U.S. and the rest of the world.
  
• Strong recognition and reputation in Washington as a Foundation providing a well-planned, in-depth educational program.
  

* Accredited by the Ethics Committee of the United States Congress as a non-political, private host organisation.

A complementary programme to provide direct input to policymakers in the two countries that most significantly impact the future of Hong Kong

• Regular, self-funded visits by Foundation members to China for discussions with policymaking communities affecting Hong Kong.
  
• Nurturing strong relationships facilitates all aspects of the Foundation's work.
  

Two-way exchanges in Hong Kong to "inform and be informed".

• Over 600 frank, off-the-record meetings with local and overseas opinion leaders in business, the professions, academia, think tanks and government organisations and others from Hong Kong, North America, Asia and Europe affecting policy in and toward Hong Kong up to twice a week.
  

Media shapes the views of senior business and government leaders worldwide.

• Sponsorship of Hong Kong/China visits by U.S.-based journalists and editors modelled on Congressional visit programme and organised in cooperation with the National Press Foundation and the East-West Center in Hawaii.
  
• Encourages more balanced, informed reporting in order to address possible misrepresentation and incomplete information with respect to Hong Kong's future as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
  

A study of the competitiveness of the Hong Kong economy commissioned to broaden and complement the Foundation's existing programmes.

• In keeping with the original vision of founding members in 1989 to promote a better understanding of Hong Kong's future as one of the most important commercial and financial centres in the world.