Riding the Wind and Waves in Three Places (Greater Bay Area, Great Future)-A report from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (middle)
On the shores of the South China Sea and the Pearl River, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is in full swing.
This is a major national strategy personally planned, deployed, and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. It is a new practice to promote the development of the "one country, two systems" cause.
"It is necessary to seize the major historical opportunities in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promote the integration of rules and mechanisms for economic operation in the three regions, accelerate the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area intercity railway, and promote the efficient and convenient flow of personnel, goods and other elements, and improve The level of market integration.” General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out.
The central government's request, the direction of the Bay Area, will be issued in the three places.
From advancing infrastructure interconnection to improving market integration, from exploring scientific and technological innovation cooperation to planning to build an industrial system for coordinated development, from encouraging Hong Kong and Macao youths to "go north" development to creating a high-quality living circle that is livable, industrial and travelable, nearly 4 Over the past few years, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have been concentric, seizing opportunities, riding the wind and waves, and proceeding in an orderly manner. A world-class bay area and world-class city cluster with vigorous development, outstanding innovation capabilities, optimized industrial structure, smooth flow of elements, and beautiful ecological environment is accelerating form.
Transportation interconnection, creating a "1 hour life circle"
On May 3, at the welding construction site of Beijiao New Town Station in the Shunde section of the west extension of Guangzhou Metro Line 7, the machines were roaring and full of enthusiasm. Workers were working overtime during the holidays.
"The mechanical and electrical installation has reached the critical stage, and everyone is rolling up their sleeves and working hard to ensure that it will be completed and open to traffic by the end of the year." Huang Tingting from the China Railway Second Bureau said that this is also her "subway line built for herself"-along this line Route, she returned from the construction site in Shunde, Foshan to her home in downtown Guangzhou, without changing trains.
Along the subway line, "Guangfo City" has transformed from the concept of economic development to the reality that people feel personally.
Accelerating the integration and development of "soft connectivity" with infrastructure "hard connectivity". The development pattern of "Guangzhou-Foshan City" is the only way for the "9+2" urban agglomeration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to move forward.
At present, the Greater Bay Area is accelerating the construction of the "A"-shaped transportation backbone, building a multi-level rapid transportation system with high-speed rail, intercity railways, expressways, etc. as the main body, and fully realizing the three poles of Guangzhou-Foshan, Shenzhen-Hong Kong, Zhuhai-Macao It can be reached in about 1 hour.
Open the map and find Guangzhou Nansha, which is located in the geometric center of the urban agglomeration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The "1-hour living circle" transportation network in the Greater Bay Area is clear at a glance.
As the intersection of many land and sea routes, it is becoming an important transportation hub in the Greater Bay Area.
At the end of this year, people in the Nansha Free Trade Zone can take Guangzhou Metro Line 18, which travels at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, to reach the central city of Guangzhou within half an hour.
This line will extend to the north, and in the future will connect with Guangzhou East to Huadu Tiangui Intercity Railway, and to the south will connect with Nansha to Zhuhai (Zhongshan) Intercity Railway. It will become the "super vertical axis" of cities on the west bank of the Pearl River in the Greater Bay Area. ".
According to the plan, Guangzhou Metro Line 22 will also pass through Nansha to further connect with Dongguan and Shenzhen. The two cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which have an economic volume of more than 2 trillion yuan, will achieve "hand in hand" on the subway.
In addition, the Shenmao Railway, which is part of the coastal channel of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, has started construction, and the Shenjiang section of it passes through Nansha.
Inner Lingding, the ocean and the ocean are broad and the sky is comfortable.
Viewed from the landing point of Ma'an Island in Zhongshan City on the Shenzhong Passage, rows of huge bridge piers extend to the water and sky.
The 24 km long Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-river channel is another major project connecting the east and west sides of the Pearl River Estuary after the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. After completion, the journey from Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport to Zhongshan Cuiheng New District will start from the current one. Two hours were shortened to about 20 minutes, and it became a direct highway connecting the two economic circles of "Shen Guanhui" and "Zhuzhongjiang".
"The project is currently progressing smoothly. The subsea tunnel has completed the installation of 8 immersed pipes at the west end, accounting for 1/4 of the total. The main tower of the Lingdingyang Bridge has also been constructed to an elevation of 210 meters." Song Shenyou, chief engineer of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage Project, introduced the project. It will be completed and opened to traffic in 2024. At that time, there will be Huangpu Bridge, Humen Bridge, Nansha Bridge in the inner Lingding Ocean area, and the Shenzhen-Medium Channel and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge underneath. A total of 5 cross-river and transoceanic channels will bring to the cities on both sides of the strait. Huge room for integration and development.
More than land transportation.
Song Xiaoming, deputy general manager of Guangzhou Port Group, introduced that as the deepwater channel widening project was put into use, Nansha Port has realized two-way navigation and free arrival of 100,000-ton and 150,000-ton ships, and the opened container barge branch line has basically covered Zhuhai In the triangular port group, 30 dry ports spread the collection system to Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other Pan-Pearl River Delta regions.
The Nansha Port Railway, which runs through the four cities of Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Foshan and Guangzhou and can be connected to the national railway network, will be opened to traffic this year, and the "last mile" of sea-rail combined transportation will soon be completed.
With Nansha as the center, the three-dimensional transportation network of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is becoming denser and more interconnected. The "1 hour life circle" has basically formed, and the "Great Bay Area on the track" has become a reality; the total length is more than 5,000 kilometers, the core area A highway with a density of 8.9 kilometers per 100 square kilometers; a passenger throughput of more than 200 million passengers a year and a container throughput of more than 80 million TEUs, making it one of the busiest airspace and port clusters in the world...
Rule convergence, changing system differences into reform dividends
On the morning of May 5, at the Liantang/Xiangyuanwei port on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border, a Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border truck loaded with cargo took less than half a minute from entering the inspection area to customs clearance.
At present, innovative measures such as "cooperative inspection, one release" and "one place two inspection" are being promoted at all ports in Guangdong, and two-thirds of inbound and outbound passengers basically queue up for no more than 30 minutes.
On the same evening, at the bustling Gongbei Customs in Zhuhai, He Xinyi, a tourist from Guangzhou, was going through customs clearance procedures.
This "May 1st" holiday in Macau made her very satisfied. She swiped the pass on the self-service machine and showed her health code, and she completed the customs clearance procedures.
Board the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway and return to Guangzhou in just over an hour.
At the same time, Wang Jianbin, who works in Zhuhai Hengqin Traditional Chinese Medicine Industrial Park, is returning to Australia through customs clearance at Hengqin Port.
Through the "cooperative inspection, one release" passenger health quarantine model implemented by Zhuhai and Macao and the mutual recognition of health codes between the two places, he went to work in Hengqin every morning, returned to his home in Macau at night, and worked and lived in the same city. No different.
According to Zhang Yukang, general manager of Guangzhou Zuche.com, there are no obstacles to their cross-border bus travel between the Mainland and Macau. When customs clearance, they only need to log in to the Guangdong Digital Government "Guangdong Provincial Affairs" applet to transcode. The nucleic acid in the "Yuekang Code" The test results and other information are recognized by the Macau side, and customs can be cleared smoothly.
In order to coordinate the advancement of epidemic prevention and control in Guangdong and Macao and the resumption of work and school, the governments of Guangdong and Macao implemented the mutual recognition of the "Macao Health Code" and the "Yuekang Code" in July last year, and no longer conducted 14 days of centralized medical observation in quarantine. .
"There is no technical problem with the mutual recognition of health codes. The difficulty lies in the different provisions for the protection of personal information. The connection of the rules is a difficult problem." According to the relevant technical staff of "Digital Guangdong", for this reason, the health codes of Guangdong and Macao Mutual recognition, the background services of the two parties are not interconnected and comply with the laws of the two places; individuals voluntarily propose transcoding to protect personal privacy; transcoding data is encrypted throughout the entire process to ensure information security.
The legal level and the technical level are connected to each other to ensure the mutual recognition of the health code transfer between the two places.
The rapid conversion of the Guangdong-Macao health code has provided strong support for the prevention and control of the epidemic, and has strongly supported the normal exchanges of personnel between Guangdong and Macao and the resumption of work and production.
As of May 5, conversion services have been provided to nearly 1.17 million residents of the two places.
The mutual recognition of Guangdong and Macao health codes is the epitome of breaking the system differences between the two places and seeking integrated development.
One country, two systems, three customs territories, three currencies, three different sets of laws and systems... For a long time, the differences in system rules have been one of the important factors restricting the integration and development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Since the signing of the "Framework Agreement on Deepening Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and Promoting the Construction of the Greater Bay Area", whether it is possible to break through institutional barriers and achieve the convergence of rules has become one of the most important and urgent issues facing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
There is no precedent in the world, so we must boldly venture, try boldly, and open a new path.
The construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is a typical example.
The construction of the bridge involves different standards and specifications in the design, construction, and environmental protection of the three places. Starting from the feasibility study stage, "high or low" has become an important construction principle.
Zhu Yongling, director of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Authority at the time, introduced that whoever has high standards implements it, so as to integrate the engineering technical standards and specifications of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.
"High, not low" is not only a standard choice in the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, but also a principle and criterion for breaking institutional barriers and realizing the docking of rules in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Rule convergence breaks down barriers, actively explores "one thing, three places, one policy, three places, and one regulation, three places", and strives to turn system differences into reform dividends. Guangdong Province has initiated research on the linkage of rules in 11 key areas.
In recent years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has continued to expand the scope of professional qualification recognition and standard convergence; new breakthroughs have been made in the docking of business environment rules; the Greater Bay Area Standardization Research Center was formally established, and technical standards such as food safety and vaccines have achieved mutual recognition.
In the past three years, Guangdong Province has newly introduced more than 50,000 Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises, and more than 200 Hong Kong and Macao financial institutions have established branches in Guangdong Province.
Located in the Hengqin Macau Youth Entrepreneurship Valley, the Bank of China-Litu-Fang's (Hengqin) Associated Law Firm is the first law firm in the country to be jointly operated by the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.
“Thanks to the opening of the mainland legal service market to Hong Kong and Macau lawyers, we can provide comprehensive legal services to multinational and cross-regional corporate clients.” said Chen Yi, director and senior partner of the law firm. Mainland lawyers are familiar with mainland laws. Hong Kong and Macao lawyers are good at foreign-related laws and link up with international rules, which highlights the advantages of the "three-place joint operation".
"We are optimistic about the market in the Greater Bay Area and are confident that Hong Kong and Macao will integrate into the overall development of the country."
Joining ships to go to sea, collaborative innovation adds new momentum for development
"It's like a machine with long ears, it can hear abnormal noises in operation at any time, and make quality inspection judgments." In the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Li Zhifeng, chief technology officer of Shengteng Technology Company, a Hong Kong-funded enterprise, introduced the newly developed intelligence Quality inspection equipment.
Using artificial intelligence, machine hearing and other technologies, the detection equipment is equipped with "shunfeng ears" to monitor the defects of the production process in real time.
The research and development team of this "black technology" is based in Shenzhen, but the business cooperation team is in Hong Kong. The two teams use the respective advantages of Shenzhen and Hong Kong to cooperate in two-way.
The complete industrial system of the Pearl River Delta, the advanced modern service industry and scientific and educational resources of Hong Kong and Macao, coupled with the successive introduction of innovative cooperation policies that break barriers in regions, systems, and rules, led by collaborative innovation, the Greater Bay Area has been linked by multiple parties and quickly formed complementarity An industrial pattern of mutual promotion and coordinated development.
On Hengqin Island, which is across the sea, there are many scientific and technological enterprises like Shengteng Technology Co., which are rich in the "Bay Area Gene".
It has become the most concentrated area of mainland Macau enterprises, with a total of 4,000 registered Macau companies, of which there are 186 Guangdong-Macao cooperative traditional Chinese medicine technology industrial parks.
In the exhibition room of the industrial park, there is a dazzling array of newly developed Chinese medicine products marked in Portuguese.
Chairman Lu Hong introduced that the industrial park has built an integrated platform for production, education and research of Chinese medicine, as well as a service platform for achievement transformation and technological innovation. The two places work together to promote Chinese medicine technology, culture, and products into Portuguese-speaking countries, the European Union and the "Belt and Road". Countries along the route.
"At present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area still has shortcomings such as insufficient research and development capabilities of scientific research institutions, and key core technologies that are still restricted by people." The responsible comrade of the Guangdong Province Greater Bay Area Office said that building an international science and technology innovation center is the primary task of the Greater Bay Area. .
Guangdong is actively working with Hong Kong and Macau to promote the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area around the “two points” of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Loop and Hengqin of Zhuhai and the “two corridors” of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Corridor.
Gathering to build world-class scientific and technological infrastructure clusters, first-class laboratories, and first-class university scientific research institutions, and strengthening basic research and key core technology collaborative research. All parties in the Greater Bay Area are playing their respective comparative advantages to jointly build a world-class innovation platform and cultivate world-class industries Cluster, and "beads into a chain" to create an innovation belt in the Greater Bay Area, becoming a global highland for technological innovation and an important source of emerging industries.
"At present, 4 rounds of operations have been completed, with more than 2,000 registered users and more than 400 research topics supported. About 1/4 of them come from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and users from Hong Kong and Macao account for about 10% of the total users." Liang Tianjiao, deputy director of the Dongguan Research Department of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongguan Songshan Lake Science and Technology Park, China Spallation Neutron Source Park, said that science and technology workers in the Greater Bay Area share scientific research resources and jointly solve the problem of “stuck necks” in technological innovation.
At present, Guangdong Province has deployed 10 provincial laboratories, cooperated with Hong Kong and Macao to build 20 joint laboratories, and opened more than 10,000 large-scale scientific instruments to Hong Kong and Macao.
There are 23 major scientific infrastructures under construction in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and preparatory work is being advanced, including the high-current heavy-ion accelerator facility constructed in Huizhou and the Jiangmen Neutrino Experimental Station.
With the unique advantages of connecting two markets and two kinds of resources, the Greater Bay Area, which is “joining ships to go to sea”, has surging momentum and is striding towards high-quality development.
Unlimited gravitation, continuous release of people’s livelihood and welfare
People’s livelihood is an important part of the “Bay Area Access” project that Guangdong Province vigorously promotes, including promoting the construction of Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases, promoting Hong Kong and Macao residents working and living in Guangdong to enjoy local citizenship in terms of livelihood, and promoting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao cooperation in running schools and cooperation. A series of important contents such as medical management and mutual recognition of professional qualifications.
The more complete infrastructure, more convenient customs clearance conditions, coupled with the continuous expansion of industrial cooperation, the continuous open system rules and the continuous release of people's livelihood and welfare, make the people, goods, funds, and information flow more convenient and orderly in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. .
In the Hong Kong and Macau Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base in Zhaoqing New Area, the "post-85s" Hong Kong youth Liang Jiankun and Tang Zhenyu established their own companies. In their view, as the city with the largest land area and the lowest development intensity in the Greater Bay Area, Zhaoqing is a promising development Hinterland and cost depressions.
"Hope is here, you and I can see it, development will take some time, but we are full of confidence." They said.
In Jiangmen, Luo Weite, Liang Lifeng, and Tan Huimin from Hong Kong formed the "fish and vegetable symbiosis entrepreneurial team" and became "new farmers".
Today, their greenhouses produce 50 tons of high-quality organic vegetables annually, and they have received cooperation intentions from many companies.
"The biggest feeling is that Guangdong has a very large space. It is not just a space for experimentation and construction, but also a space for our future development." Luo Weite said.
Right now, from Nansha in Guangzhou to Qianhai in Shenzhen, from Hengqin in Zhuhai to Foshan... It has become common practice for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to start businesses in the Mainland.
At present, 12 Hong Kong and Macau youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases have been put into operation in Guangdong Province, and 765 Hong Kong and Macau projects have been incubated. Among them, there are more than 4,000 Hong Kong and Macau youth employees.
The innovation and entrepreneurship bases throughout the Greater Bay Area have tailored a series of preferential policies and support conditions for Hong Kong and Macau youths to help them solve problems such as different environments, unfamiliar policies, and insufficient resources, and help them set sail and pursue their dreams in the Greater Bay Area.
Different from the fast-paced central business district of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Huizhou, which is only half an hour’s drive from Shenzhen, is a coastal forest hot spring resort and a leisure and tourism destination in the Greater Bay Area. Every weekend, crowds of Shenzhen residents are in front of you. Come and find the comfort of "Baili Coastal Landscape Road, a thousand years of style slowly coming".
During the May 1st holiday, the average number of tourists from Shenzhen, Guansui to Huizhou exceeded 720,000 per day.
“There will be times when long winds and waves break through the clouds and sail directly to the sea.” The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline has given new developments in the construction of the Greater Bay Area in terms of strengthening national strategic scientific and technological capabilities, maintaining the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macau, and promoting regional coordinated development. Great mission.
A world-class bay area that exudes an increasingly stronger "Bay attraction", a world-class urban agglomeration full of vitality and innovation, and a high-quality living circle that is suitable for living, working and traveling, is coming to us.
People's Daily reporter Zhang Yi Wang Yao Cheng Yuanzhou Li Gang