Hong Kong jewellery sales sparkle amid 13pc jump in mainland Chinese visitors

Hong Kong recorded a 13 per cent surge in visitors from mainland China during the Lunar New Year holiday, with the influx boosting jewellery sales by 10 per cent during the period despite a sharp rise in gold prices. Industry representatives said on Sunday that festive business had outperformed last year’s, though the recovery remained uneven across sectors and not always directly tied to the surge in mainland visitors. Immigration figures showed 1.02 million mainlanders visited the city betw...

By Oscar Liu