Thousands of sails race in the Bay Area——Written on the eve of the 4th anniversary of the signing of the "Framework Agreement on Deepening Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau to Promote the Construction of the Greater Bay Area"
Looking at the world, the Bay Area is not only a geographical concept that faces the sea and the ocean, but also an economic phenomenon that has attracted much attention.
Here, there is the world’s largest port throughput and a world-class airport cluster. The annual cargo throughput of the port exceeds 1.6 billion tons and the airport passenger capacity exceeds 200 million passengers, which is equivalent to sailing out of a 10,000-ton ship in 3 minutes. Take off and land a passenger plane in 1 minute.
Here, there are 56,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 80 million. The total economic volume created in 2020 will exceed 11 trillion yuan, which is equivalent to less than 0.6% of the country’s area and 12% of the country’s GDP, which is more than a medium-sized economy. Body, can be included in the top ten in the world.
Here, it is China's first bay-the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On July 1, 2017, under the personal witness of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the "Framework Agreement on Deepening Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and Promoting the Construction of the Greater Bay Area" was signed in Hong Kong by the National Development and Reform Commission and the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, marking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Construction officially started.
General Secretary Xi gave important instructions, demanding that this important event be done well.
Participants walked through the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation and Talent Intelligence Exhibition Area established by the China International Talent Exchange Conference (photographed on April 24, 2021).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian
From agreement planning to blueprint spreading.
In the past four years, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has taken solid steps and has become a vivid practice to promote the development of the "One Country, Two Systems" cause, and is a world-class bay area and a world-class urban agglomeration. The goal is moving forward by the waves.
The tide is surging in the big bay and thousands of sails are racing. Here there are great opportunities and a great future.
(1) A hot spot of hope-from the start to the exertion, there are visible developments, the vitality that is felt, and new changes are taking place every day, every hour, and every second.
Born in Foshan, grew up in Hong Kong, and studied in the United States, Pan Honghui, a post-80s "student master" with a PhD in biochemistry, finally chose to return to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to start a business.
"Father said that he will not be able to communicate with his grandson in the future, because the children cannot speak Chinese." This was the original reason for his idea of returning to China, and the vitality of the Chinese economy, especially the rapid development of the biomedical industry, has become more determined. He returned home to choose.
In 2012, he joined a large domestic biopharmaceutical company; in 2018, he returned to his mother's hometown-Zhongshan City, settled on the Zhongshan Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Platform, and founded Zhongshan Kangtianshenghe Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
At present, the company has grown from a start-up of 12 people to more than 100 people, and has won the trust of nearly a hundred biotech companies at home and abroad.
Join the Greater Bay Area!
Nowadays, there is a popular saying in Hong Kong: Crossing the Shenzhen River, the world is broader.
Behind attracting more and more young people from Hong Kong and Macau is a grand blueprint leading to a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster.
This is the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Workshop in Qianhai, Shenzhen, taken on October 25, 2018.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian
What is the charm of the Greater Bay Area?
On the world map, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the San Francisco Bay, the New York Bay, and the Tokyo Bay of the United States are collectively referred to as the four major bay areas in the world. These bay areas are the most economically developed, most open, and most active regions in the world.
On the night satellite image, the Pearl River estuary, this area of China's bright lights includes Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region and Guangdong Province's Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing 9 cities , Is one of the regions with the highest level of openness and the most dynamic economy in China.
Compared with the other three major bay areas, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has unique advantages.
Its area is equivalent to the sum of the New York Bay Area and the San Francisco Bay Area; the population is the sum of the population of the other three bay areas; except for the mining industry, all other industrial systems are readily available; the most special is that it is located in one country with two types There is no precedent in the world for the establishment under the conditions of system, three customs areas and three currencies.
After the rapid development after reform and opening up, especially after the return of Hong Kong and Macao to the motherland, the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has been continuously expanded and deepened. This region has obvious location advantages, accumulated strong economic strength, agglomeration of innovative elements, and leading internationalization. The advantageous conditions for building a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster.
Promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a major national strategy personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Every step forward in the construction of the Greater Bay Area is inseparable from the care and support of General Secretary Xi.
In December 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Guangdong for the first time after leaving Beijing for inspection after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
He pointed out that he hopes that Guangdong will join hands with Hong Kong and Macau to build a world-class city cluster with more comprehensive competitiveness.
From participating in the deliberation of the Guangdong delegation at the National People’s Congress in March 2018, to inspecting Guangdong in October 2018, and to inspecting Guangdong again in October 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions and made clear instructions on the construction of the Greater Bay Area each time. Claim.
From June 29 to July 1, 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the inauguration ceremony of the fifth Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, and inspected the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
From December 19 to 20, 2014, and from December 18 to 20, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Macau twice to attend a series of activities and conduct inspections.
Leading the direction, steady and far-reaching.
The series of important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping provided fundamental follow, pointed out the way forward, and injected strong impetus into the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Under the guidance of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been advancing rapidly in recent years. In the current global economic situation with high tides and waves, a beautiful "Bay Area Answer Sheet" has been handed in——
By the end of 2020, the total economic volume of the Greater Bay Area will reach 11.5 trillion yuan (the Guangdong Pearl River Delta economy is nearly 9 trillion yuan, Hong Kong is about 2.7 trillion Hong Kong dollars, and Macau is about 194.4 billion patacas), an increase of 14,000 over 2017 The total economic output is equal to that of Italy, Canada, and South Korea, and is higher than the San Francisco Bay Area; Guangdong has 53,000 national high-tech enterprises, nearly 20,000 more than in 2017.
In the Greater Bay Area, a three-dimensional transportation network covering 11 cities is becoming denser and denser, and the "1 hour life circle" has basically formed——
160 km/h!
On April 20th, with the successful welding of the last rail joint, the first section of Guangzhou Metro Line 18 realized the full-length rail connection.
The highest design speed per hour of the "fastest subway line in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" has set a national record, shortening the time from Guangzhou city center to Nansha from more than one hour to about 30 minutes.
“It used to be a trip from Hong Kong to Guangzhou for at least 4 hours, but now it’s much more convenient.” Li Jianxi is a Hong Kong youth who started his business at the Hong Kong and Macau Youth Home in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. His wife, Sun Jiaxi, is a girl from Guangzhou. Get married.
Convenient transportation conditions not only solved the problem of traveling between the two places, but also further strengthened his idea of starting a business in Guangzhou.
The track welder of the China Railway 11th Bureau is welding the last rail joint of the first pass of Guangzhou Metro Line 18 (photographed on April 20, 2021).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Dawei
At present, the mileage of high-speed rail in the Greater Bay Area exceeds 1,200 kilometers, and the operating mileage of urban rail transit exceeds 1,000 kilometers. With the completion of landmark projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail, it only takes 30 minutes to drive from Hong Kong to Zhuhai and Macau. Travel to and from Guangzhou was shortened to less than one hour.
In the core area of the Greater Bay Area, there are 8.9 kilometers of expressways per 100 square kilometers, which is higher than the other three major bay areas in the world.
In the Greater Bay Area, the influence of the International Science and Technology Innovation Center has increased significantly——
Located at an important node of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, Shenzhen Guangming Science City is under construction with numerous tower cranes and roaring machines.
Recently, the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, dedicated to building a national laboratory "reserve team", officially landed here.
Not only the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory.
The China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan has been put into operation, the construction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' strong current heavy ion accelerator device has started in Huizhou, and the construction of the Jiangmen Neutrino Experimental Station has progressed in an orderly manner. A number of major innovation carriers are emerging here, and the Greater Bay Area is based Research and original innovation capabilities have been significantly enhanced.
This is the China Spallation Neutron Source (UAV photo) taken in Songshan Lake, Dongguan on April 21, 2021.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua
The Greater Bay Area, along with Beijing and Shanghai, are the three major international scientific and technological innovation centers with a national layout.
In order to gather talents for innovation, the Greater Bay Area fully implemented the preferential income tax policy for overseas high-end talents in short supply. The actual tax burden level is similar to that of Hong Kong and Macao. The 9 cities in the Pearl River Delta have issued a total of 2.39 billion yuan in individual tax subsidies and introduced nearly 9,000 overseas innovative talents.
In the Greater Bay Area, cities clenched their fingers into fists and formed groups to develop, and the "city circle engine" was ready to emerge——
The “bigness” of the Greater Bay Area lies in the “bigness” of the city's advantages. Four of the 11 cities have economic aggregates exceeding one trillion yuan, and each city has its own unique positioning.
Among the “9+2” city clusters in the Greater Bay Area, “Guangfo Zhao”, “Zhuzhong River”, and “Shen Guanhui” have become the most familiar and common hot nouns in the Greater Bay Area.
Early in the morning, the "Guangfo Migratory Birds" set off from their homes in the Guangdong Financial High-tech Zone in Foshan and took the subway to the Zhujiang New Town in Guangzhou. It took less than an hour...Guangzhou and Foshan, the two cities with over one trillion GDP are already seamlessly connected. The daily passenger volume of the Foshan Metro has exceeded 500,000.
Top-level design, overall planning, dislocation competition, group development, coordinated progress, and formation of joint forces-data shows that from February 2019 to April this year, the central and local governments at all levels have successively introduced 231 related policies related to the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area The document has established a complete policy system to promote the efficient and rapid development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, providing sufficient space and momentum for the development of the Greater Bay Area.
"The rich and complete policy system provides a good mechanism for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to break through the differences and achieve coordinated development, and it also provides a strong impetus for the deep integration of the Greater Bay Area." Jinan University Jingwei Economics of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Said Chen Chenglin, a professor at the Institute of Development Studies.
Ma Xingrui, Governor of Guangdong Province, said that after nearly four years of hard work, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has achieved remarkable results in phases, its overall strength has been significantly enhanced, cooperation has become deeper and more extensive, and the people of the three places have a more substantial sense of gain, fully demonstrating the "one country, two systems" Institutional advantages and vitality.
(2) The value of demonstration-from exploration to guidance, here we will continue to give full play to the advantages of reform and opening up, pioneering trials, emancipating the mind, pioneering and innovating, and striving to create a model of high-quality development
Bridge, overcoming obstacles, connecting this shore and the other shore.
The Pearl River flows into the sea and Lingding is on the ocean.
One bridge connects three places, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which is about to open to traffic for a thousand days, such as the Changhong Lying Wave, is a magnificent sight.
38 kilometers from the true north, the construction of another super sea-crossing project that connects the two banks of the Pearl River is in full swing—the Deep-Medium Corridor is beginning to take shape.
At Ma'an Island on the west bank of the Pearl River in Zhongshan City, a row of huge bridge piers extends to the water and sky. In the distance, the main tower of Lingdingyang Bridge has been constructed to an elevation of 210 meters, and the main tower of Zhongshan Bridge has been constructed to an elevation of 150 meters...
This is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (panoramic photo by drone) taken on September 12, 2020.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Yehua
This 24 kilometers long deep-medium passage with a 90-meter super-high bridge deck is expected to be completed and opened to traffic in 2024. It will become a direct connection passage between the "Shen Guanhui" and "Zhuzhong River" urban agglomerations. By then, Shenzhen will drive from Zhongshan to Zhongshan. The current 2 hours has shrunk to about 20 minutes.
Once, the New York Greater Bay Area, which was divided into different areas by several rivers, was precisely because of the construction of more than 2,000 bridges, which accelerated the realization of the prosperity of the integration of the Bay Area.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the Shenzhen-Zhuhai Channel, the Humen Bridge, the Nansha Bridge, the Huangpu Bridge... Nowadays, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is also using bridges across the ocean to cross the sea, forming a golden seascape.
Just like the "rainbows" flying over the two sides of the Pearl River, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is building a new open economic system that is in line with international standards, building an open "big platform", expanding a "big network" in economics and trade, and cultivating a "big network" in the Bay Area. Market", continue to demonstrate first to create a "new benchmark" for my country's reform and opening up.
Always at the forefront of reform and opening up, and releasing development dividends through institutional "soft connectivity" is the foundation for leading the high-quality development of the Greater Bay Area——
"Before moving to Qianhai, Shenzhen in 2019, Laihua had a valuation of only 430 million yuan. Benefiting from the superposition of Qianhai's industry support and its own brand amplification effect, its valuation has doubled in just over a year." Laihua Video CEO Wei Bo said.
For Wei Bo, the talent strategy of the Greater Bay Area has helped Laihua attract a large number of young designers from Hong Kong and Macau, making the products more “international”.
Today, there are 120 people in the Shenzhen team, including 33 Hong Kong colleagues, accounting for nearly 30%.
"We plan to recruit more than 100 Hong Kong youths this year." Wei Bo said.
This is Shenzhen Qianhaishi taken on October 12, 2020.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian
Qianhai is part of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone.
In April this year, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone celebrated its 6th anniversary.
A total of 584 institutional innovations have been formed, 348 items have been replicated and promoted throughout the province, 41 items have been replicated and promoted nationwide... A string of data confirms the continuous in-depth system innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Also in April, the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Personal Bankruptcy Regulations" formally implemented on March 1 this year ushered in a full moon.
This nation’s first personal bankruptcy law gives “honest and unfortunate” debtors, especially those who fail to start a business, a chance to start anew, and becomes an “ice-breaking move” to optimize the business environment.
"Promote reform and opening up with greater courage and at a higher starting point" "Strive to be at the forefront of the country in the new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern country and create new brilliance"... The importance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's visit to Guangdong last October Directives to guide the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to continuously and boldly explore and make breakthroughs and innovations on the road of deepening reform and opening up in the new era.
Always adhere to innovation-driven, and use technology "smart connectivity" to enhance competitive advantage is the key to the vitality of the development of the Greater Bay Area——
Whether the Greater Bay Area can match the international first-class Bay Area, the key lies in innovation.
The world-renowned Bay Area is without exception the "Bay of Innovation", where various types of scientific and technological innovation resources are highly concentrated.
The San Francisco Bay Area, where Silicon Valley is located, and the New York and Tokyo Bay Areas, are also recognized as clusters of industries such as innovation and finance.
In the middle section of the Pearl River Channel in Guangzhou, there is a small island in the heart of the river covering an area of about 1.83 square kilometers. This is the famous Guangzhou International Biological Island.
When the reporter came here, Zhong Nanshan, the winner of the "Medal of the Republic" and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was actively establishing the "Guangzhou Laboratory" here.
Speaking of the conditions of science and technology in the Bay Area, Zhong Nanshan believes that the Greater Bay Area has close international ties and can quickly integrate with international standards. It still has certain advantages in international cooperation.
Today, Guangzhou International Bio-Island is committed to building a national biomedicine policy innovation experimental zone and building the world's top biomedicine and biosafety research and development center.
Whether it is in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai... During the reporter's survey in the Greater Bay Area, policy makers and business managers in each city said that "innovation" was a veritable high-frequency word.
Although the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has in the past bred a group of technological innovation companies such as Huawei, Tencent, DJI, and Gree that have the ability to "make waves" on the world stage, it is benchmarked against "building a dynamic and internationally competitive The goal of “a first-class Bay Area” requires that the road to innovation is still a long way to go.
One of the strategic positioning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area anchored by the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" is "an international technological innovation center with global influence". Innovation is mentioned 137 times in the planning outline.
The construction of major platforms such as Bright Science City, Xili Lake International Science and Education City, and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone in Hetao has been accelerated. A number of large scientific devices such as integrated particle facilities, brain analysis and brain simulation, and synthetic biology are under construction in the Bay Area...
Workers work at the project site in the launch area of Shenzhen Guangming Science City (photographed on March 12, 2020).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xu
Always adhere to the people's supremacy, and gather the majestic strength with the people's "heart connection" is the starting point and goal of the reform and development of the Greater Bay Area——
This is a story about trees.
From 2009 to 2015, many large native trees in Macau faced a serious disease-brown root disease.
This disease is very contagious. As long as one tree becomes ill, it will spread to surrounding trees immediately. Once a tree develops disease, it is basically dying.
With the help of the Macau government, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture sent an expert as a "tree doctor" to check the pulse of the Macau tree.
Guangzhou experts also summarized a set of comprehensive biological control methods specifically for Macao's climate and soil, which effectively contained the brown root disease of Macao trees in a timely and effective manner.
The three places of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have the same root and are connected by blood.
Fifty-six years ago, in order to solve Hong Kong’s “water shortage”, more than 10,000 mainland builders worked hard to build an 83-kilometer long Dongshen water supply project that raised the Dongjiang water by 46 meters through 8-level pumping under the difficult conditions of lack of materials and technology. , Has become the lifeline of Hong Kong's water supply.
Representatives of the builders of the Dongshen Water Supply Project received the "Model Times" medals and certificates at the "Model Times" release ceremony (photographed on April 18, 2021).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Xu
Today, the Dongshen Water Supply Project has undergone several expansions and renovations, and it provides an average of 2092 cubic meters of water per minute to Hong Kong, ensuring Hong Kong's annual water supply of more than 1.1 billion cubic meters.
Cooperation in cross-border medical services in the Greater Bay Area has also been continuously strengthened.
Last year, about 38,000 patients with chronic diseases were stranded in Guangdong due to the epidemic. Thanks to medical cooperation, many patients made appointments in Hong Kong and achieved medical treatment in Shenzhen and other places.
More and more doctors from Hong Kong and Macau have obtained the qualifications of practicing in multiple places by obtaining the qualifications of mainland doctors and applying for short-term medical practice.
The ultimate goal of reform and development is to make the people prosperous and happy, and to have a better life.
In Jiangmen, the city’s central green corridor at night looks like a beautiful landscape from the air, connecting children’s parks, Jianghaiyun Road, urban balconies and other landscapes in series, together with free and open sports parks, to become a “check-in” network for citizens’ leisure and entertainment. Red dot.
This is the Lingnan Tiandi in Foshan, Guangdong (data picture) taken in 2020.
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In Foshan, with the historical and cultural blocks as a bridge, the Lingnan Tiandi, carefully built by the Millennium Chan City, will "live" traditional culture, attract young people to better guard Lingnan culture, and let more people remember homesickness.
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Today, life in the Bay Area, which is more livable, workable and travelable, provides countless innovative entrepreneurs with a broad world to realize their dreams and bring together powerful forces to pursue their dreams.
(3) Unique advantages-from deepening cooperation to mutual benefit, here adhere to the foundation of "one country" and make good use of the benefits of "two systems" to support and promote Hong Kong and Macau to better integrate into the overall development of the country
Zhuhai Hengqin Island is separated from Macau by Yingying, and the narrowest point is only 187 meters.
"It takes only half an hour on the road." Macau lawyer Li Huanjiang drives from Macau every day to work at the Bank of China-Litu-Fang (Hengqin) associate law firm in Hengqin New District, Zhuhai, where he is a senior partner.
The Bank of China-Litu-Fang's (Hengqin) Joint Law Firm is the first law firm in the country to be jointly operated by the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. It is also the largest public legal service platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with the number of Hong Kong and Macau lawyers. The most law firm.
"The Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau have different legal systems. We can provide one-stop services for the diversified legal needs of multiple legal systems and multilingual regions or countries," he said.
"One country, two systems, and three customs areas", this "one, two, three" pattern is a distinctive feature of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Whether Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao can cooperate in the construction of the Greater Bay Area is the key to whether "system differences" can be turned into "system benefits".
General Secretary Xi Jinping gave instructions on the construction of the Greater Bay Area when meeting with a delegation from Hong Kong and Macau to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the country’s reform and opening up on November 12, 2018:
—— Within the framework of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy and the Basic Law, the comprehensive advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao should be brought into play, the system and mechanism should be innovated, and the circulation of essential factors should be promoted.
——Be bold, try boldly, and open a new path.
Keep in mind the entrustment, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have firm confidence and act together.
After nearly four years of hard work, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has not only adhered to the foundation of "one country", but also made good use of the benefits of "two systems." Deepening the convergence of rules and mechanisms has achieved remarkable results by pressing the "fast forward button" for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Shenzhen Qianhai, adjacent to Hong Kong, used to be a tidal flat, but nowadays there are many high-rise buildings and a constant flow of people.
This "special zone in a special zone" has many firsts:
Establish a three-dimensional land management model with three-dimensional cadastre as the core, implement the "multiple certificates in one" and "one license, one code" registration system reform, implement the first batch of pilots for trade balance facilitation, and realize the "China Qianhai" registry port for international ships The registration system has been implemented...Since its establishment, Qianhai has introduced a total of 610 institutional innovations, including 236 nationally pioneered or leading, 58 nationally replicated and promoted, and 82 replicated and promoted throughout the province.
One after another Hong Kong youths realized their entrepreneurial dreams in Qianhai.
Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Workshop has incubated a total of 446 entrepreneurial teams, including 227 from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and international teams, with a cumulative financing of more than 1.5 billion yuan.
Hong Kong young entrepreneurs Chen Sheng and Guo Weiqiang won the first "Shenzhen Youth May 4th Medal" in 2021.
As the first group of young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong to settle in DreamWorks, Chen Sheng's company is committed to building a world-leading vertical search system for cross-border e-commerce.
This is the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship workshop taken in Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Futian District, Shenzhen on August 12, 2020.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian
"The free venue, convenient financing environment, and the support given in the early stage of entrepreneurship made me realize the true meaning of Qianhai's 12-character positioning "relying on Hong Kong, serving the mainland, and facing the world"." Chen Sheng said.
According to statistics, as of the end of 2020, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has accumulatively registered more than 11,000 Hong Kong-funded enterprises with a registered capital of 1.26 trillion yuan, making it one of the regions with the highest degree of connection and closest cooperation with Hong Kong.
In the past four years, Guangdong Province has introduced more than 50,000 Hong Kong and Macao enterprises, and actually used 340 billion yuan of Hong Kong and Macao funds; more than 2,000 Hong Kong and Macao professionals have obtained Mainland registration and practice qualifications.
Guangdong has laid out 10 provincial laboratories and established 20 joint laboratories in cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao. Guangdong has opened more than 10,000 large-scale scientific instruments to Hong Kong and Macao.
Supporting the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall situation of the country's development, promoting livability, business and travel, and co-building and sharing a high-quality living circle are important aspects of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
In recent years, the state, provinces, and municipalities have issued a series of policy documents concerning the benefits of Hong Kong and Macao, covering three major themes: education, entrepreneurship, business and employment, and convenience for the people.
In particular, in recent years, Guangdong has conscientiously implemented the national policy of benefiting Hong Kong and Macao, implementing the "Bay Area Link" project, and promoting the construction of the Greater Bay Area to benefit the people of the three places more and more widely:
——In-depth implementation of exchange programs such as the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Internship Program. Hong Kong and Macao youths enjoy the same level of subsidies for entrepreneurship training, rent subsidies, and entrepreneurial incubation subsidies in the Mainland. Preferential policies such as the Hong Kong and Macao Science and Technology Innovation Fund and Youth Development Fund cover Hong Kong and Macao youths who start businesses in Guangdong. There are nearly 600 Hong Kong and Macau youth entrepreneurial teams in Guangdong, with more than 4,000 employees.
——The treatment of citizens in the field of people's livelihood is fully implemented.
Focusing on the hot issues that Hong Kong and Macao residents are concerned about, such as house purchase, schooling, medical treatment, social security, and application for civil servants and institutions, Guangdong has studied and formulated special policies one by one to promote equal treatment for local citizens.
——The ecological environment of the Greater Bay Area is more beautiful.
In 2020, the percentage of days with good air in the Pearl River Delta will reach 92.9%.
In recent years, more and more Hong Kong and Macau residents have chosen to live in the Pearl River Delta. There are more than 300,000 Hong Kong and Macau residents resident in Guangdong.
The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a new attempt to promote the formation of a new pattern of comprehensive opening up in the new era. It is also a new practice to promote the development of "One Country, Two Systems". New advantages to achieve new development.
From the air, the 11 cities in the Greater Bay Area are like pearls inlaid on the east and west banks of the Pearl River, delineating a huge harbor, presenting a vivid scene of "industrial activity, logistics activity, investment activity, and innovation activity”, showing the world The rich connotation of "one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and strongest economic vitality in China".
(4) Bright prospects-from now to the future, there are boundless opportunities here. We must make greater progress in the new stage of development and continue to forge ahead towards the goal of building a first-class bay area with vigor and international competitiveness.
The modern economy is mainly a competition between urban agglomerations. Studies have shown that 60% of the global GDP is mainly concentrated in the Bay Area and its hinterland.
Songshan Lake in Dongguan is full of vitality and graceful spirit.
At the China Spallation Neutron Source in Songshan Lake Science City, Tong Xin, a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is carrying out scientific experiments in full swing.
"Here is the hope for embracing the future." Tong Xin said that through the construction of large-scale scientific installations, the Greater Bay Area is attracting a large number of scientific research talents from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and the world, and relying on a mature and complete industrial chain to accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading.
The future development of Songshan Lake Science City is focused on national strategy and cutting-edge research, based on solving the "stuck neck" problem in major scientific and technological innovation, and sounded the clarion call for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to aim at original innovation and accelerate high-quality development.
From Guangzhou Science City to Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City, and then to Shenzhen Guangming Science City, the technological innovation capabilities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are being upgraded.
Hit the water in the middle of the stream and take advantage of the momentum.
Faced with the "two overall situations" and the heart of the "big country", the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area embarks on a new journey with a glorious mission and an arduous task.
On the one hand, compared with world-class bay areas such as Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco, the original innovation capacity of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is relatively weak, and the endogenous power of economic growth needs to be enhanced. The regional development space is facing bottleneck constraints, resource and energy constraints are tightening, and ecological Environmental pressure is not small, and there is still a long way to go to accelerate high-quality development in the future.
On the other hand, changes in the global governance system and international order are accelerating, countries are increasingly interconnected and interdependent, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are gaining momentum, and the “Belt and Road” construction is intensified in order to enhance the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. International competitiveness and higher levels of participation in international cooperation and competition have opened up new space.
"Accelerate the establishment of the first echelon leading high-quality development"-the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 long-term goal outline have drawn up a high-quality development roadmap for China and pointed out the direction for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Roll up your sleeves and work hard, and the opportunity will be in your hands.
On May 8, the "Hong Kong and Macau Children Class" for junior high school students in Guangzhou Qifu English Experimental School officially opened.
The "Hong Kong and Macau Children's Class" is specially set up for the children of Hong Kong and Macau who work and live in the Greater Bay Area.
Today, only Guangdong Province has 95,000 students studying in Hong Kong and Macao in primary and secondary schools, and 14,000 students in colleges and universities.
Hong Kong and Macao residents have participated in pension, unemployment, and work-related injury insurance in Guangdong for a total of 187,000 person-times. Guangdong has issued nearly 120,000 social security cards to Hong Kong and Macao residents.
Cross-border finance, cross-border practice, cross-border medical treatment, cross-border office, cross-border education, cross-border commuting...The unique features of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area cultivate the unique beauty of the Greater Bay Area.
The motherland is the strongest backing of Hong Kong and Macau!
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area provides a broad depth for the development of Hong Kong and Macau in the unique system design of "one country, two systems".
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 9+2≥11!
Li Xi, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said that Guangdong will seize the major opportunities in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, highlight institutional innovation and pattern system construction, continue to make good use of the "key trick" of reform and opening up, and strive to promote Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics Thoughts took root in the land of Guangdong and yielded fruitful results.
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Carrie Lam, said that the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the support given to Hong Kong by the National "14th Five-Year Plan" will bring Hong Kong huge room for development.
The Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region He Yicheng said that under the framework of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, Zhuhai and Macao will be able to use their respective advantages to achieve greater development and jointly develop diversified industries.
To start a new voyage and achieve high-quality development, we must unswervingly implement the new development concept——
More than 80 years ago, Mr. Ba Jin went to Jiangmen, Guangdong to write an article "Bird's Paradise".
The ancient banyan tree mentioned in the article is now more than 400 years old. Looking far away, there are single trees and forests, lying on the water, thousands of egrets and birds flying and crying, birds and trees depend on each other, and people and birds are in harmony.
In order to protect this wetland, before the opening of the Jiangzhan high-speed railway, which is more than 800 meters away, invested heavily in the installation of fully enclosed soundproof screens.
Today, the Little Bird Paradise National Wetland Park in Jiangmen, Guangdong has become a vivid portrayal of the green development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
This is a bird paradise in Xinhui, Guangdong once described by the literary master Ba Jin (photographed on June 27, 2018).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jiayang
Not far away, a world-class rail transit industry base is accelerating its formation in Jiangmen.
In CRRC Guangdong Rail Transit Vehicle Co., Ltd., a series of self-developed high-speed EMUs and subways show new business cards made in China. The Hong Kong subway will also come here for maintenance, and the "Greater Bay Area on the track" takes off from here.
"Innovation-driven, reform-led", "Coordinated development, overall planning," "Green development, ecological protection", "Open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win", "Shared development, improving people's livelihood"-to implement the new development concept, is the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" The important guiding ideology and basic principles of the "Outline Development Plan" will guide the Greater Bay Area to demonstrate greater achievements in high-quality development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" and even longer in the future.
To start a new voyage and expand new space for development, it is necessary to promote reform and opening up with greater courage and at a higher starting point——
On the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, the hometown of the great Sun Yat-sen-Cuiheng New District, Zhongshan City.
深中通道的加快建设，让位于西岸登陆点的这片新区迎来发展新机遇。对标国际最优、最好、最高标准，扎实推进营商环境综合改革，这里如今已成为珠江东西两岸融合发展支撑点，正向着2035年全面建成国际化、现代化、创新型城市新中心奋进。
2021年2月2日，深中通道横门大桥两端的非通航孔桥将使用60米混凝土箱梁(无人机照片)。当日，深中通道项目首榀60米混凝土箱梁在位于中山市马鞍岛的中铁大桥局深中通道项目智慧梁场浇筑成功。 新华社记者 刘大伟
在深化改革开放中从“新”出发，在优势互补中开拓新局，加快打造新发展格局的战略支点。
发挥粤港澳大湾区辐射引领作用，加大产业转移力度，统筹珠三角9市与粤东西北生产力布局，带动周边地区加快发展；
积极参与西部陆海新通道建设，在广东肇庆打造粤桂黔滇高铁经济带，在江西赣州打造深赣港产城一体化合作区，有序发展“飞地经济”，带动中南、西南地区发展；
与京津冀、长三角、海南自贸港建设等国家战略协同发力，打造引领高质量发展的重要动力源；抱团出海，辐射全球，加快“一带一路”走出去……
大湾区，大棋局，大未来。
青春的五月，粤港澳大湾区同步推出“五四”快闪，11座城市、无数年轻人唱响《我和我的祖国》。
不同的口音，同唱一首歌；同一个大湾区，共同的祖国母亲。
“生逢盛世，当不负盛世。”钟南山院士这样寄语粤港澳大湾区的青年们。
1900年，八国联军侵华，中华民族走到命运的交汇点上，正是在这一年，身为江门新会人的梁启超，发出“少年中国”的第一声呐喊：“使举国之少年而果为少年也，则吾中国为未来之国，其进步未可量也”。
穿越历史，励志百年。
今日之中国，一如梁启超百余年前所期望，正欣欣向荣、青春活力；今日之粤港澳大湾区，已成为无数有志青年奋斗的舞台，在青春中国的逐梦航程中劈波斩浪、领航向前……