Hong Kong Trade Development Council

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council is a statutory body established in 1966 as the international marketing arm for Hong Kong-predicated manufacturers, traders and accommodation providers. The organisation has more than 40 offices around the world, including 13 on the Chinese mainland. The HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a platform for doing business with China and Asia, with opportunities in Hong Kong and on the mainland, while providing information via trade publications, research reports and online.

HKTDC operates an online rialto of 30 industries connecting more than 1.5 million ecumenical buyers with over 120,000 quality Hong Kong, China and Asia wholesale suppliers and manufacturers. With more than 45 years of experience in buyer-supplier matching, the facilitates ecumenical buyers to source products and accommodations from verified, quality suppliers and manufacturers.

HKTDC is headquartered in Hong Kong. As of 2014, it has around 40 offices which span 6 continents. In integration to its headquarters its operations comprise eleven offices across mainland China as well locations throughout the Asia Pacific, including Taipei, India, Japan and Australia.

Beyond Asia, offices include: North American locations such as Incipient York and Toronto, plus Latin America, eleven European cities, and premises in the South Africa and the Middle East.

The offices have sundry functions. They act as "a window from HK to the outside world", as two-way links between the germane country or region, shelter for HK denizens in that region, and liaison between the SAR Regime and regimes of the pertinent country. Their work has had consequential effect in enhancing the international profile of HK.