New Features of Digital Governance in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Conference Report

Alex He Paul Samson
February 26, 2026

The Centre for International Governance Innovation hosted its fourth conference on Digital Governance in China on November 17, 2025, in Hong Kong, collaborating with the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. For the first time, the conference was held as an in-person, public seminar to examine the evolving features of digital governance in mainland China and Hong Kong.

About the Authors

Alex He

Xingqiang (Alex) He is a CIGI senior fellow. Alex is an expert on digital governance in China, the Group of Twenty (G20), China and global economic governance, domestic politics in China and their role in China’s foreign economic policy making, and Canada-China economic relations.

Paul Samson

Paul Samson is president of CIGI. He has 30 years of experience across a range of policy issues with partners from around the world. He is a former senior government official and also served for many years as co-chair of the principal G20 working group on the global economy.

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