THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT

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THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF FACILITY
MANAGEMENT CPD EVENT (CPD007/01)
HKIFM LUNCHEON The Risks of Exporting Hong Kong
Property Development Strategies to Mainland China
Guest Speakers Mr Bo-sing TANG, Associate
Professor, Dept of Building Real Estate,
The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
Mr Sing-cheong LIU, Managing Director,
Guangzhou Pearl River Hang
Cheong Real Estate Consultants
Ltd Date 26 October 2001 (Friday) Time
From 12.00 noon to 2.30 p.m.
Place World Trade Centre Club at 38/F
World Trade Centre, 280 Gloucester Road,
Causeway Bay, HK Cost 230 per person
Topic
Many Hong Kong developers are known to be
enormously rich by world standards and widely
experienced in land and property development.
Market opportunities, ethnical affinities and
geographical advantages have encouraged them to
expand their business activities to mainland
China in recent years. However, most of them
have apparently been outperformed by the less
experience and capital-deprived local developers
in the mainland Chinese property development
markets. This talk discusses why these Hong
Kong developers have been less successful in
securing as profitable returns from their land
development projects on the Chinese mainland as
they have in their home base. The talk is based
upon a research study funded by the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University Research Grant.
The closing date for reservation is Monday 22
October 2001. Cheque should be made payable to
HKIFM. Interested parties please complete
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cheque to the HKIFM, 16/F 1063 Kings Road,
Quarry Bay, HK by mail or direct debit to our
Bank of East Asia Account 514-25-05750-5 and fax
the pay-in slip back to 2537 4426.
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THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF FACILITY
MANAGEMENT CPD EVENT (CPD007/01)
HKIFM LUNCHEON The Risks of Exporting Hong Kong
Property Development Strategies to Mainland China
Curses of Arrogance The Risks of Exporting HK
Property Development Strategies to Mainland
China  Bo-sin TANG Associate Professor, Dept of
Building Real Estate, The HK Polytechnic
University   Sing-cheong LIU Managing Director,
Guangzhou Pearl River Hang Cheong Real Estate
Consultants Ltd
  Abstract   Many Hong Kong developers are known
to be enormously rich by world standards and
widely experienced in land and property
development. Market opportunities, ethnical
affinities and geographical advantages have
encouraged them to expand their business
activities to mainland China in recent years.
However, most of them have apparently been
outperformed by the less experienced and
capital-deprived local developers in the mainland
Chinese property development markets. This talk
discusses why these Hong Kong developers have
been less successful in securing as profitable
returns from their land development projects on
the Chinese mainland as they have in their home
base. The talk is based upon a research study
funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research Grant.
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THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF FACILITY
MANAGEMENT CPD EVENT (CPD007/01)
HKIFM LUNCHEON The Risks of Exporting Hong Kong
Property Development Strategies to Mainland China
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Bo-sin TANG BSocSc, MSc,
MBA, MRTPI, MHKIP, RPP. Bo is a professional
town planner specialising in land use planning,
development consultancy and real estate research.
He is now Associate Professor in the Department
of Building and Real Estate of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, People's Republic of
China. Bo has received education in social
science, urban planning, business and real estate
in Hong Kong, UK and US. Apart from teaching and
research, he has also acted as consultant in a
number of public and private sector consultancy
projects. These projects cover various topics
including industrial land use planning, port
back-up uses, harbour reclamation, urban renewal
strategy, railway development, housing estate
development, urban land supply, and competition
study. Bo now teaches both undergraduate and
postgraduate students in Hong Kong and in
mainland China through both the traditional
classroom contact mode and the web-based CyberU
programme. His research interest covers the areas
of urban planning practices, development control,
property development and urban competitiveness.
  
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THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF FACILITY
MANAGEMENT CPD EVENT (CPD007/01)
HKIFM LUNCHEON The Risks of Exporting Hong Kong
Property Development Strategies to Mainland China
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS    Sing-cheong LIU MBA,
FRICS, FHKIS   S.C. is a General Practice
Surveyor by training and has extensive experience
in land and property business. He is the Founder
and Managing Director of Pearl River-Hang Cheong
Real Estate Consultants Ltd. with offices
established in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai,
People's Republic of China. Being the only
non-local company that has been awarded with
Class A real estate agency qualification ever
since the commencement of the grading system in
1996, his Guangzhou office provides comprehensive
land and property development consulting services
for many leading local and foreign developers as
well as the Guangzhou Municipal Government. The
success story of his company has been published
by the City University of Hong Kong in a book
entitled 'Innovation Management Cases in Hong
Kong'. S.C. is also the Chairman of Guangzhou Top
Home Technology Co. Ltd. that operates a real
estate website and a newspaper in facilitating
property transaction related activities through
the use of information technology. Besides
private business, S.C. is extremely active in the
academic circle and public services. He has been
awarded the titles of Honorary Fellows by both
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong
Kong University of Science Technology, of
Honorary Professor by the University of Hong
Kong, and of the Visiting Professional Fellow by
the Cambridge International Land Institute,
Fitzwilliam College of the Cambridge University
in UK. He is the chairman of the Research
Development Corporation Board, members of the
Business School Corporate Advisory Board and of
Advisory Committee on Entrepreneurship in the
HKUST. He also serves in the sub-committees of
the Law Reform Commission and of the Hong Kong
Housing Authority of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region Government.