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The orchestra's first overseas visit after incorporation took place in 2002, when it went to Germany and Austria and successively performed "馬年春節音樂會" at Vienna's Golden Hall, the Deggendorf Municipal Hall in Germany, and the Hercules Hall of the Munich City Hall. In February 2011, the orchestra embarked on a European tour, starting from Tromsø and continuing to Lucerne, Stuhr in Bremen, Germany, Prague, and Berlin, for a total of five performances. In September 2018, the orchestra presented the "音揚大川" tour, giving five performances in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing to mark the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China to China to China. The orchestra also undertook an 18-day European tour (January 21 to February 7) through eleven cities in six countries, with 閻惠昌 and 周熙杰 on the podium, presenting seven Lunar New Year concerts for the Year of the Rat.

The institutional profile on the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra website (page undated) states that the orchestra has commissioned more than 2,400 new works and new arrangements in total. Since 2009 the orchestra's bowed-string section has fully used the eco-huqin series developed by the orchestra. The eco-huqin series replaces python skin with a renewable PET polyester fiber membrane and redesigns the resonating box by scientific calculation. The series includes the gaohu, erhu, zhonghu, gehu, and bass gehu, and took four and a half years to develop. The list of winners of the Ministry of Culture's "Fourth Ministry of Culture Innovation Award" includes "科技創新促進民樂的傳播與發展─環保胡琴系列研發與應用", entered with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as the organization that completed the project.

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra CD "喝采" is marked as released in February 2000, conducted by 閻惠昌. The live-recording CD "情綿綿" is marked as released in January 2004, conducted by 閻惠昌. Product information for the double CD "鼓王群英會V — 閻學敏的鼓樂世界" (June 2006), the CD "魏冠華的胡琴世界" (July 2007), and the CD "千水情" (April 2013) all note live performance by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

The training scope of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra's Orchestra Academy covers four areas: orchestral performance, Chinese-music conducting, composition and research, and arts management. The Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra was founded in 2003. In 2003 the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra inaugurated the Hong Kong Drum Festival. In 2011 the orchestra founded the world's first International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music. "千弦齊鳴", jointly created by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and one thousand huqin players, was entered in Guinness World Records for the most people playing the huqin at the same time.

On June 13, 2025, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra performed "笙與管風琴的對話" at the Beijing Performing Arts Centre. The concert "閻惠昌與香港中樂團2025——名家名曲會津門" was jointly presented by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, with support from the Hong Kong SAR Government Beijing Office and the Tianjin Liaison Unit; pre-concert reports stated that the performance took place on June 18 at Tianjin Concert Hall. On March 22, 2026, the International Sheng Festival 2026 organized by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra presented "笙生不息——千簧和鳴", a sheng marathon and evening outdoor concert, at Kai Tak Sports Park; the Guinness World Records website records that the event set the record for the "Largest reed instrument ensemble" with 1,230 people. On July 10, 2026, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Polish Cello Quartet gave a concert in Wrocław, Poland.