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How Hong Kong Built a Financial Empire Without Making Anything

How does a city survive and thrive when it makes less than 1% of its own goods? This deep dive into 60 years of World Bank data reveals Hong Kong's incredible blueprint. We'll unpack how it transformed from a manufacturing hub into a global financial super-connector, saving 30% of its income for decades to build an economic fortress. We'll explore the extreme pivot to a 90% service economy, how it manages trade volumes three times larger than its entire GDP, and the looming challenge of an aging population in a city with no room to grow. This is the story of how a territory rewrote the rules of industrial power.