[Together with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to join hands with the Greater Bay Area] Qianhai is a hot soil to help Hong Kong and Macao youths innovate and start businesses
Southern Net News (Reporter/Nong Haiyan) Looking out from the 16th floor of Qianhai Financial Center, the "Light of the Bay Area" Ferris wheel, Happy Harbor and other scenery complement each other. This is the first "unicorn" enterprise in Qianhai to paint Headquarters.
On November 27th, the reporter followed the web-themed event of "Joining Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau to Join Hands in the Greater Bay Area" to Qianhai, Shenzhen to learn about the development of Hong Kong and Macau youth.
Strong platform to recruit outstanding young talents from Hong Kong and Macau
Laihua is committed to creating a creative platform for presentation and animation video creation. Currently, the company's latest valuation reaches 13 billion yuan, and it is deployed in 19 cities across the country. The company has a team of more than 500 people.
According to Wei Bo, the founder and chairman of Laihua, the average age of Laihua's employees is 25 years old, and most of them are "post-95s" and "post-00s" young people.
At present, there are 260 employees in the Shenzhen headquarters, including 40 employees from Hong Kong and 10 employees from Macau. Nearly one-fifth of the employees in the headquarters are from Hong Kong and Macau.
Young people from Hong Kong and Macau have a diverse cultural background and an international perspective. This is the quality that Wei Bo appreciates most when absorbing Hong Kong designers.
"We have many UI designers from Hong Kong. Their works have traditional culture and are well in line with international aesthetics." Wei Bo said.
With the continuous advancement of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, many enterprises have embraced Hong Kong and Macao youths.
In January 2021, Shenzhen launched the Qianhai Hong Kong and Macao Youth Recruitment Program, mobilizing 19 Qianhai enterprises and providing more than 140 recruitment positions.
It is reported that, as a normalized system, the Qianhai Hong Kong and Macao Youth Recruitment Program organizes key enterprises in the jurisdiction to publish more than 100 recruitment positions for Hong Kong and Macao youths through online and offline channels, covering multiple fields such as finance, technology, professional services, and logistics.
Multi-policy "escort" the development of Hong Kong and Macao youth
In March 2020, Shenzhen officially released the "Measures to Further Facilitate the Development of Hong Kong and Macao Residents in Shenzhen", which put forward 18 measures to facilitate Hong Kong and Macao residents in deep learning, employment, entrepreneurship, and life.
As a Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation zone, Qianhai has also issued a number of welfare policies for Hong Kong citizens, providing employment subsidies, transportation subsidies, and talent housing for Hong Kong youths.
Liang Chuxin, a 27-year-old Hong Kong youth, is one of them.
Based on the development prospects of Shenzhen's Internet and digital creativity, and attracted by the favorable policies for Hong Kong youth to develop in Shenzhen, Liang Chuxin came to Shenzhen.
She told reporters that after applying for the talent housing, the monthly rent is only more than 1,000 yuan, and she can develop her career in Shenzhen without any worries.
There are also many stories about the innovation and entrepreneurship of young people from Hong Kong and Macau.
Zheng Siyi, the head of the former Haiwo Women's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base, is a serial entrepreneur. Around 60 Hong Kong institutions have settled in the Youth Innovation Center in the Greater Bay Area.
Gaonuo, the founder of Industrial Siku and a young Hong Kong maker, has been rooted in Qianhai since 2017, focusing on smart logistics and smart pharmacies. The company has 5 global R&D institutions in Boston, London, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and India, and the project has completed 4300 financing. Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars.
Excellent service to expand the development space of Hong Kong and Macao youth
As a pilot platform for comprehensively deepening reform and innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Qianhai actively seeks more development opportunities for Hong Kong and Macao youths in terms of creating a better policy environment, optimizing and guaranteeing youth entrepreneurship and employment space, and providing financial support.
According to Hou Jing, the commissioner of the Hong Kong Service Office of the Qianhai Administration, as of October this year, the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth DreamWorks has accumulated more than 500 incubation teams, including 226 Hong Kong teams.
“We hope to create a full-chain, full-scale, full-format, and full-factor entrepreneurial ecological chain with a smooth docking policy and efficient use of resources, so as to increase the success rate of Hong Kong and Macao youths in entrepreneurship here.” Hou Jing said.