Alex So, managing director of the accounting consultancy, FastLane Group, believes digital transformation – the use of digital technologies to help modify, or create new, more profitable and effective working practices and customer experiences – could be the answer to tackling rapidly changing global business and market challenges, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.

China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and announced new policies to achieve its green transition. Jing Liu, an HSBC economist and China watcher, shares her views on the plans.