Breaking the barriers to the flow of innovative elements, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao's technological cooperation on the fast lane
◎Reporter Ye Qing
In this year's Tokyo Olympics, Hong Kong athlete Li Huishi won a bronze medal in the women's track cycling race.
"This is inseparable from the power of scientific research collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Professor Zhang Xin of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology leveraged the computing power of the Guangzhou-based supercomputer'Tianhe-2' to help improve athletes' performance. Cycling posture and sportswear.” Recently, during the 2021 Greater Bay Area Science Forum held in Guangzhou, Gao Min, Dean of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Fok Yingdong Research Institute, introduced in an interview with reporters.
This is just one of the epitome of the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
In the context of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou attaches great importance to Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, regards the promotion of Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao scientific and technological cooperation as an important starting point for promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and continuously deepens the scientific and technological cooperation between Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.
Cross-border flow of scientific research funds in the Greater Bay Area
The supercomputer "Tianhe II" has a branch in Nansha, Guangzhou, which mainly provides services for Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas scientific research teams.
"Our research institute has a dedicated optical fiber connection to the National Supercomputing Guangzhou Center, and it is connected to the Qingshuiwan campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via a dedicated line, and then connected to other universities in Hong Kong. Through this line, all 8 universities in Hong Kong can easily enjoy the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center. The service of the center." Gao Min said that in the past five years, more than 200 Hong Kong and Macao scientific research teams have used the "Tianhe II", which has greatly promoted the development of scientific research in Hong Kong.
"In recent years, the scientific and technological cooperation in the entire Greater Bay Area has made great progress, and it is getting closer and closer." Gao Min is very emotional, "If the problem of capital transit that has been crying for a long time before, has now been resolved, Hong Kong scientists can For Mainland projects, research funding can also be allocated to Hong Kong."
On August 1, 2019, Guangdong Laboratory of Southern Ocean Science and Engineering (Guangzhou) successfully allocated 38 million yuan in scientific research funds to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the supporting unit of the Hong Kong branch. This is the first successful cross-border allocation of scientific research funds in Guangzhou , Realizing the cross-border flow of scientific research funds in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
In order to promote the openness and sharing of resources, the Guangzhou Municipal Government invests 60 million yuan annually to support the joint development of basic and applied basic research by Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau. At the same time, major science and technology infrastructures are opened to Hong Kong and Macau in an orderly manner, allowing Hong Kong and Macau universities and scientific research institutions to take the lead or independently apply for Guangzhou science and technology. It is planned to simultaneously establish a cross-border use mechanism for Guangzhou's financial scientific research funds to promote the cross-border flow and regional integration of innovative elements such as talents, capital, information, and technology.
In August 2021, the "Measures for Guangzhou City to Promote Scientific and Technological Innovation Cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao" was issued and implemented, which further improved the scientific and technological cooperation mechanism of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.
Technological cooperation between the three places is deepening
How to realize the interconnection of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao's institutional rules and turn institutional differences into institutional advantages is one of the important issues facing the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Guangzhou vigorously promotes the integration of science and technology innovation rules in the Greater Bay Area, and has made a number of important progress, including: taking the lead in realizing the cross-border entry of municipal financial scientific research funds into Hong Kong; taking the lead in the qualification of overseas high-end talents; taking the lead in establishing work permits and residence permits for foreigners "One-window acceptance" service window; adopt measures to shorten the time limit for the approval of work permits for foreigners, which takes the lead in major cities in the country; take the lead in implementing the preferential income tax policy for overseas high-end and scarce talents in the Greater Bay Area, and the actual tax burden level is similar to that of Hong Kong and Macau ;Promulgated the "Conditions for Hong Kong and Macao experts to be selected into the Guangzhou Science and Technology Expert Database (Trial)" to continuously expand the breadth and depth of the participation of high-level Hong Kong and Macao experts in the review and evaluation of Guangzhou science and technology projects.
As barriers to innovation factors such as the flow of people, logistics, and capital in the Greater Bay Area have been broken, and innovation factors have flowed smoothly, scientific and technological cooperation between the three places has continued to deepen.
Through scientific and technological cooperation projects, Guangzhou has invested more than 267 million yuan in financial funds to support nearly 200 scientific research cooperation projects between universities, research institutes and enterprises in the city and Hong Kong and Macao.
Relying on the Guangdong-Suizhou Joint Fund, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao research team was supported to carry out 7 basic research cooperation projects, with a funding of 16 million yuan.
Professor Li Zexiang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology used the angel investment model of "mentor + student" to successfully invest and incubate high-tech companies such as DJI and Yunjing. Behind all this is his vision of "connecting technology through education to change the world".
Today, he is leading the construction of the Smart Industry Innovation Base, an innovation platform directly under the headquarters of the National Technology Innovation Center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as a key platform for exploring the systematic cultivation of innovative hard technology companies, and actively planning to build a Hong Kong branch.
"At present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has outstanding capabilities in technology R&D and transformation. It has a number of universities, scientific research institutes, high-tech enterprises and national large-scale scientific projects that have important national and even global influence. It is working hard to build a global technological innovation highland and emerging Produce
An important source of industry.
"At the 2021 Greater Bay Area Science Forum, the Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, He Yicheng, said in a video speech, "Macao will further actively participate in the construction of the'two corridors and two points', and gradually break through the bottlenecks and restrictions that affect the free flow of scientific and technological innovation elements. Promote the coordination of innovation resources between Macau and other cities in the Greater Bay Area, and strengthen industrial technological innovation.
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The construction of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao collaborative innovation platform is advancing rapidly
In Guangzhou High-tech Zone, the construction of Guangzhou-Hong Kong Intelligent Manufacturing Cooperation Zone and Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation Park is in full swing.
The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Intelligent Manufacturing Cooperation Zone will create a new type of park with in-depth docking of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao, with "Hong Kong-Macao cooperation" and "intelligent manufacturing" as the main line.
The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation Park focuses on the fields of biomedicine, artificial intelligence, hydrogen energy, etc., and makes full use of the respective advantages of Guangzhou and Hong Kong to jointly establish a venture capital fund, establish a credit and insurance mechanism that meets the transformation needs of scientific and technological achievements, and promote the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area The integrated development of finance, technology and industry.
The construction of a group of Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao collaborative innovation platforms represented by the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Intelligent Manufacturing Cooperation Zone and the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation Park is progressing rapidly.
In addition, of the two batches of 20 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories in Guangdong Province, 10 are located in Guangzhou. The partners include 7 well-known universities in Hong Kong and Macao, including the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, covering new materials, advanced manufacturing, biomedicine, and environmental technology. And many other fields.
Build a good platform for innovation, and attract the flow of water.
The continuously optimized environment for innovation and entrepreneurship has attracted more and more young people from Hong Kong and Macau to come to Guangzhou to realize their dreams.
On December 10, the Xinhua Hong Kong and Macau International Youth Innovation Center, located in Chuangxiang Bay, Nansha, Guangzhou, was officially inaugurated.
Hong Kong youth Zeng Xiangsheng chose to settle here.
"Start-ups are rent-free, which reduces our financial pressure. At the same time, the center will also rely on the Hong Kong Xinhua Group's business network at home and abroad to help us expand offline business." He said.
Establish the first phase of the 1 billion Hong Kong and Macau Youth Entrepreneurship Fund covering all stages of entrepreneurship; provide supporting awards to projects that have received funding from the Hong Kong Youth Development Fund and other projects that have carried out application research and development in Guangzhou; promote and support the construction and development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau technology business incubation vehicles... …A series of policies to "escort" Guangzhou is making Guangzhou the first choice for Hong Kong and Macao youths to innovate and start businesses.
Wang Guilin, director of the Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau, said that it is necessary to improve the technology cooperation mechanism between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, build a collaborative innovation platform in the three places, and optimize the environment for Hong Kong and Macao youths to innovate and start businesses in Guangzhou, so that more Hong Kong and Macao scientific and technological achievements can be transformed in Guangzhou and the Greater Bay Area. Landing.