China News Service, Beijing, August 4th, title: "Master" of Mission Hills Zhu Dingjian: Hong Kong people should seize opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
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"I am an entrepreneur who grew up in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area." As a well-known Hong Kong businessman who invests in the mainland in the second generation of his family, Mission Hills Group Chairman Zhu Dingjian told a reporter from China News Agency on the 3rd that he now positions himself as a " "Super Contact" role, "I hope that more Hong Kong people and companies can seize the opportunities brought by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."
In the early period of reform and opening up in 1978, Zhu Dingjian's father crossed the Luohu Bridge from Hong Kong to Shenzhen and became one of the first Hong Kong businessmen to invest in the Mainland after the reform and opening up. "I was born and raised in Hong Kong, studied in Canada, and started a business with my father after returning to China. I am a witness, participant, and beneficiary of reform and opening up." After the urbanization of Shenzhen in 1992, the Zhu family and his sons expanded their careers. From the industrial shift to the leisure industry, a resort area was established at the junction of Shenzhen and Dongguan. "At that time, there was really nothing, no infrastructure, everything started from scratch." Zhu Dingjian said.
Today, Mission Hills Group has been built into a diversified leisure industry integrating sports, health, tourism, conferences, culture, and residence. For Zhu Dingjian, the responsibility of the "super contact" role is also manifested in many aspects: guiding the exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong youth; helping more and more Hong Kong entrepreneurs and enterprises to land on the mainland through the Mission Hills Group platform; and launching the Golf World Cup And other international competitions and cultural exchange activities to China.
Zhu Dingjian believes that in the three years since the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has accelerated, the field of entrepreneurship and innovation has received unprecedented attention and support.
"Policy support for entrepreneurship is on the one hand, and the market potential is large enough on the other." Zhu Dingjian believes that Hong Kong people have the advantage of "opportunity in time, place and people" in the Greater Bay Area. "The cost of starting a business in Hong Kong is very high. The cost of starting a business is too high, the rent is high, and the labor is high. Young people who want to start a business really have to make good use of the mainland market and actively integrate into the overall development of the country."
"The development opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are so great that no country in the world has it." Zhu Dingjian used a set of figures to illustrate the last time the Greater Bay Area witnessed a miracle: In 1992, Shenzhen’s GDP was only that of Hong Kong. 1/25; 25 years later, Shenzhen's economy has surpassed Hong Kong. "I remember this number clearly. This is a testament to the success of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."
In his view, with the acceleration of the construction of the Greater Bay Area, a new round of national development opportunities is presented to everyone. "The opportunities brought by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are endless. I hope that the new generation of young people in Hong Kong can open their minds, actively integrate themselves, and seize this opportunity to develop themselves."
Zhu Dingjian believes that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has not only improved its “hardware” infrastructure, it also has a significant manifestation of its “software” system and mechanism. In the future, the barriers to the flow of talents in the Greater Bay Area will be further eliminated, and ordinary people can also experience the significance of a high-quality living circle that is suitable for living, working and traveling.
"In the past, Hong Kong taxation for Hong Kong people and Australian taxation for Macao people were both troublesome. Later, the policy was also relaxed. Hong Kong people open accounts in banks, use Alipay to make mobile payments, pay housing provident funds, social security, and see a doctor. All these are convenient for Hong Kong people now. Enjoyed it like the mainland residents."
How to promote the further development and integration of Hong Kong and the Mainland? This is a question that Zhu Dingjian has been concerned about and pondered for a long time. In the future, he intends to organize more exchanges among young people from universities in the two places to help them better embrace the development opportunities brought by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. (Finish)