The proportion of first-year, non-local undergraduates from mainland China at Hong Kong’s public universities has increased to 75 per cent. The percentage of intake from other countries has fallen after the government doubled the cap on such intakes, raising concerns the city cannot meet its goal of internationalising its campuses.

Mainland Chinese investors are piling into the Hong Kong stock market at record volumes as its tech-heavy Hang Seng Index trades around three-year highs.

Mainland Chinese investors are taking positions in Hong Kong’s stock market, injecting billions into the city’s equities and reducing their valuation discount to onshore counterparts. Investors are seemingly looking towards the special Asian administration’s markets to lessen the effects of an impending trade war between China and the US.