On October 17, 37 civil servants from the Office of the Chief Executive, the Department of Health, the Transport Department, the Police Force, the Labour Department and other institutions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region visited Sanpower Group (Sanpower) on the sidelines of the State Affairs Workshop for Civil Servants of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to deepen their knowledge of the mainland's economic development, enhance their recognition of mainland enterprises' operation mechanisms and management systems, and find out how mainland enterprises align their operations with the National Thirteenth Five-Year Plan and the Belt and Road Initiative. Sun Man, Chief of the Division of Asian Affairs, Foreign Affairs Office of Nanjing Municipal People's Government and Kong Jianfeng, Director of the Office of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, Nanjing University accompanied the delegation for the visit. Yue Lei, Global Executive Vice President of Sanpower warmly received the visitors. Yum Kai Chi, CEO of Hamleys China was present.

The delegation first visited Sanpower's corporate culture showroom, Brookstone concept store and Ageing Service Command Centre. After inquiring into Sanpower's history, industrial plan and unique corporate culture at the showroom, the delegation members sang their praises. At the store, they showed strong interest in U.S. novelty products. At the centre, Sanpower's health and senior care industry and smart homecare services provoked their thoughts.

At the ensuing meeting, Yum from Hong Kong shared his experience and reflections after joining Hamleys; Wu Wai-hung, Assistant Divisional Officer of the Hong Kong Fire Services Department and head of the delegation introduced the purpose of the visit. At last, Yue extended warm welcome to the delegation, and introduced Sanpower's industrial structure, development history and business layout in Hong Kong. He was pleased to receive the Hong Kong compatriots on the occasion of the opening of the 19th CPC National Congress. As a "super connector" on the "Belt and Road, Hong Kong is an important bridgehead and strategic front via which Sanpower goes global, said him, noting that there is huge potential, multiple measures and broad paths for Jiangsu-Hong Kong cooperation and there are broad prospects for the cooperation in fields including economy, experience exchange and people-to-people contacts. He expected to establish a longstanding contact mechanism with Hong Kong civil servants to build more links, and seek greater cooperation and development for the future.