> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://review.iffw.sg/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan Sets 1-3% SAF Target for 2030 - URL: https://review.iffw.sg/hong-kongs-first-five-year-plan-sets-1-3-saf-target-for-2030/ - Published: 2026-09-17T00:30:24.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-17T15:56:21.000Z - Description: Hong Kong's first-ever Five-Year Plan sets a 1-3% SAF consumption target for flights from Hong Kong International Airport by 2030, alongside a domestic blending facility and study of a mandatory mechanism by 2028. It builds on a HK$10 billion EcoCeres-led SAF partnership with Dongguan. - Author: Editor - Tags: News, Maritime, Aviation Hong Kong has released its First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026-2030), the city's inaugural five-year plan, presented by Chief Executive John Lee to the Legislative Council alongside his 2026 Policy Address. Within a broad programme covering finance, innovation, trade and Greater Bay Area integration, the plan sets a specific target: achieving a sustainable aviation fuel consumption ratio of 1% to 3% for flights departing Hong Kong International Airport by 2030. ### Why This Plan Exists at All This is Hong Kong's first Five-Year Plan of any kind, explicitly designed to align the city's development with mainland China's own 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) while operating, the government insists, within Hong Kong's capitalist system rather than as a planned economy. Chief Executive John Lee said the plan was drawn up locally, with reference to plans from mainland Chinese cities and Macau's own recently published blueprint, rather than dictated by Beijing. The plan and the Policy Address were released together specifically so the public could read Hong Kong's long-term strategic direction alongside the year's specific implementation measures as one connected document. ### Where SAF Sits Within the Plan's Structure The SAF target appears within a section on consolidating Hong Kong's status as an international maritime centre and international aviation hub, part of a broader push described as strengthening "four centres" (financial, maritime, trade and innovation) and developing a hub for high-calibre talent. The plan explicitly commits to developing a new ecosystem for the aviation industry, including an aircraft parts processing and trading industry, alongside the SAF target and a goal of developing Hong Kong into an Asia-Pacific hub for innovative low-altitude applications. ### The Domestic Blending Facility Commitment Beyond the consumption target, Hong Kong committed to continuing development of a SAF value chain with Guangdong, including construction of a SAF blending facility within Hong Kong itself. Authorities will study a mechanism for mandatory SAF consumption and launch related public education campaigns by 2028, meaning the current 1-3% figure is a stated ambition rather than a legally binding mandate at this stage; the plan defers the actual enforcement mechanism to further study over the coming two years. ### The Green Marine Fuel Bunkering Target Sits Alongside SAF The plan's marine fuel language builds directly on Hong Kong's existing Action Plan on Green Maritime Fuel Bunkering, first promulgated in November 2024, rather than introducing a new target from scratch. That earlier plan set specific, numeric goals: 7% of Hong Kong-registered ships using green maritime fuels by 2030, and more than 60 green bunkering operations annually by 2030 involving over 200,000 tonnes of green maritime fuel. Hong Kong has already recorded concrete progress against those goals: CM Hong Kong, the world's first methanol dual-fuel roll-on/roll-off vessel, completed the city's first green methanol bunkering operation on 5 March 2026, followed by the first simultaneous methanol bunkering at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals on 10 March. Sinopec's dedicated methanol bunkering vessel, Daqing 268, supplied the fuel, sourced from CIMC Enric's Zhanjiang production base in mainland China, establishing what officials describe as a full-chain cooperation model between Hong Kong and the mainland for green marine fuel supply and bunkering. ### A Deliberately Multi-Fuel Strategy Consistent with the language used elsewhere in the maritime sections of the Five-Year Plan, Hong Kong has stated no single green maritime fuel is being particularly favoured, with biodiesel, LNG, green methanol, green ammonia and hydrogen all being used or tested by industry in parallel. The government has framed this explicitly as following the same "multi-fuel" approach adopted by other major ports including Singapore, Rotterdam and Shanghai, citing forecasts of over 1,000 LNG-capable and nearly 400 methanol-capable vessels on order globally by 2030, alongside a smaller number of hydrogen and green ammonia vessels, as the basis for keeping multiple fuel pathways open rather than betting on one. ### A Concrete Project Already Underway This target builds on groundwork already in motion. In May 2026, Hong Kong and Dongguan signed a HK$10 billion memorandum of understanding to establish a SAF value chain in Dongguan, led by EcoCeres, the same company covered elsewhere in this series for its air cargo SAF programme with SF Group and CNAF, and its HVO backup-power partnership with Chindata. Chief Executive Lee described that partnership as demonstrating Hong Kong's alignment with the national 15th Five-Year Plan and as linking the entire supply chain from raw materials through to production, framing the Dongguan project explicitly as the kind of concrete action the new Five-Year Plan's SAF target is meant to be measured against. ### Reading the Target Against Hong Kong's Own Prior Advocacy The Business Environment Council, a Hong Kong industry group, had previously published a policy whitepaper recommending the government pursue three specific actions: forming a government-led multi-stakeholder working group, providing subsidies and implementing a levy to strengthen SAF demand, and developing local blending capacity. The Five-Year Plan's domestic blending facility commitment and the study of a mandatory consumption mechanism both track directly onto that industry-recommended structure, though the plan does not yet commit to the levy specifically that the whitepaper's demand-side pillar recommended. ### What Remains Open The 1-3% target is a 2030 goal without a specified enforcement mechanism yet defined; the mandatory consumption study and associated public education campaign are due only by 2028, leaving roughly two years for the framework to move from aspiration to enforceable policy. No specific blending facility capacity, location, or completion date within Hong Kong has been disclosed. *Source:* [*Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region*](https://www.hk5yplan.gov.hk/2026-2030/public/pdf/highlights/highlights%5Fpt1%5Fen.pdf?ref=review.iffw.sg)*, 16 September 2026.*