Kong Industries and the Electronics/Electrical Appliances Industries Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Co-operative Education Centre of the City University of Hong Kong, the Industrial Advisory Committee in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Electronic and Information Engineering Programme Board of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education.Dr. Li holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, a Master’s degree in Global Business with Dean’s Honour from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the City University of Hong Kong.

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Plenary Session P5 –remained in the contract manufacturing business without changing their business models. In the 1990’s, local and international competitors became established in China. Most Hong Kong manufacturers were then pushed into severe business challenges caused by saturating markets and razor thin margins. Only a small handful of Hong Kong consumer electronic manufacturers evolved to move up the value chain and developed their own global brands and their own global sales network. This presentation is based on a case study conducted by the presenter which analyzed the development of one of the few Hong Kong electronics manufacturers, GP Electronics (HK) Limited, which started as a small contract manufacturer in 1978 and grew to a global company with its own brands, its own products and its own sales network. GPE’s global