The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) announced new listing rules for specialist technology companies, with a lower revenue threshold for these firms. The new rules will make it easier for hard-tech companies to sell shares in the city, and will apply to companies operating in frontier industries such as new energy, robotics, semiconductors, quantum computing, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and new food and agriculture technologies. The final rules are effective from March 31, and require a commercialised company to have no less than HK$6 billion.