The Beijing-Hong Kong Shenzhen Innovation Accelerator, a subsidiary of Global Digital Ideas (08271), was successfully selected for the Hong Kong “Innovation and Technology Accelerator Pilot Program”

Zhitong Finance App News, Global Digital Innovation (08271) announced that on October 14, 2026, the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government of China announced the results of the “Innovation and Technology Accelerator Pilot Program”. The company's indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Beijing-Hong Kong Shenzhen Chuangke Accelerator Co., Ltd. was successfully selected and became one of the nine professional innovation and technology enterprise service organizations selected in the first batch of more than 50 applicants. The application for the project received strong support from Shougang Holdings (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (the controlling shareholder of the company), an overseas investment and financing platform under Shougang Group Co., Ltd. (Shougang Group, the company's ultimate controlling shareholder), the company's largest shareholder.

The pilot program aims to attract professional innovation and technology enterprise service organizations with rich experience and an excellent track record in Hong Kong, China, to establish accelerator bases in Hong Kong, and to support the development and needs of innovation and technology enterprises in a more comprehensive and targeted manner with their commercial networks and industry experience.

The subsidiary selected for this pilot program is a new entity for the Group to implement the national strategy in Hong Kong and serve the development of innovation and technology in Hong Kong. It is also an important gripper for promoting the efficient flow of industry, capital, talent, technology and other elements in the Beijing-Hong Kong-Shenzhen region. The subsidiary company was selected for the pilot program, which strongly promotes the Group's expansion into the “capital+industry service” platform, with industry matching and financing matching as core values, connecting industry needs at one end and connecting Beijing and Hong Kong's Shenzhen Innovation and Technology resources at one end to cultivate new growth points for the Group.

After being successfully selected, the subsidiary will accelerate its formal entry into operation, forming a “five-dimensional” service system based on the three major fields of (1) new materials and high-end manufacturing; (2) green energy and low-carbon technology; (3) intelligent manufacturing and industrial software; (4) biotechnology and healthcare; (5) information technology and digital economy; and (5) information technology and digital economy, relying on “Shougang Group's application scenarios and industrial resource support, Beijing-Hong Kong and Shenzhen innovation and technology ecosystem support, and global digital platform support” Market-based and sustainable operating model.

The subsidiary was successfully selected for the pilot program, which not only affirms the Group's ability to develop innovation and technology, but also a new starting point for the Group to promote its own transformation and upgrading through open cooperation. The Group will use this as an opportunity to continuously integrate resources from all parties, gather development efforts, explore new paths of Beijing-Hong Kong-Shenzhen innovation cooperation, use group practices to help the Beijing-Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Cooperation deepen and become more practical, and contribute the Group's strength to the implementation of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” and Hong Kong's first five-year plan.