Xie Zhanhuan: Hong Kong will cease the use of landfills by 2035, and the first waste incinerator will be put into operation next year.

On February 26th, Hong Kong Secretary for the Environment and Ecology, Wong Kam-sing, attended the Hong Kong Green Week Roundtable Forum and announced that by 2035, Hong Kong will stop using all landfills. The first waste incinerator, located on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau, will begin operation next year, with a second facility planned for Tuen Mun, aiming to have sufficient capacity to handle urban waste by 2035. Wong Kam-sing stated that the Hong Kong government's goal is to stop using coal for daily power generation by 2035 and switch to natural gas. However, natural gas still produces carbon emissions, so the government needs to increase the proportion of zero-carbon electricity in Hong Kong, hoping to gradually increase from the current one-quarter to sixty to seventy percent. Discussions are underway with cities in the Greater Bay Area to increase power supply to Hong Kong, with plans to build a substation in Tseung Kwan O to receive zero-carbon electricity from the mainland. Currently, ninety percent of Hong Kong's electricity consumption comes from buildings. The government plans to amend the Building Energy Efficiency Regulation to reduce commercial building electricity consumption by three to four percent by 2050, and residential building consumption by two to three percent. Deputy Chairman of the Financial Development Bureau, Joseph Fong, who also attended the forum, expressed hope to attract global green technology and financial companies to establish their Asia-Pacific centers in Hong Kong, using various tax measures to attract such businesses. Deputy Director of the Innovation and Technology Bureau, Annie Tam, expressed the hope to promote new industrialization through a thriving innovation and technology ecosystem, support the development of green technology and green industries in Hong Kong, and believes that Hong Kong has the potential to become a green technology center.