{"id":153306,"date":"2025-11-22T07:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=153306"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:42:59","slug":"john-lee-wants-banks-to-support-backbone-of-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=153306","title":{"rendered":"John Lee wants banks to support &#8216;backbone of economy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1832755_1_M_20251121163919.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Chief Executive John Lee on Friday called on the city&#8217;s banks to be &#8220;flexible and accommodating&#8221; in lending to eligible businesses as part of a concerted effort to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in these times of economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks at a luncheon event organised by the Hong Kong Association of Banks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1832755-20251121.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive John Lee on Friday called on the city&#038;# [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}