"Going in both directions" to connect with international education cooperation in the Greater Bay Area and reach a new level. From universities in Hong Kong and Macao cooperating with mainland cities to run schools, to universities in Guangdong going to Hong Kong to "land on the beach", higher education cooperation is showing a new trend of "two-way rush" Sun Yat-sen University revealed that the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study will become the main carrier of the school's international education.

The Hong Kong SAR government intends to build a university education city in the northern metropolitan area, and mainland universities can consider moving into it.