China News Service, Hong Kong, October 14th, title: Liang Zhenying is optimistic about Hong Kong-Shenzhen cooperation in the next 40 years to encourage Hong Kong youth to "cross the river to see"

　　China News Agency reporter Liu Chenyao

　　Recalling the scene in the 1970s when he carried his handouts to Shenzhen for a seminar, Liang Zhenying, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, described: When the line passed the customs, there were small Hong Kong small factory owners, often two couples brought some raw materials or semi-finished products. Shenzhen processing.

"I believe these people are now big bosses." Liang Zhenying smiled. Behind the success of these people, they have confirmed the 40-year rise of Shenzhen brought by reform and opening up.

　　On the 14th, Liang Zhenying was invited to attend the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and returned to Hong Kong to accept an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency.

While lamenting the outstanding achievements of Shenzhen today, as a witness, Liang Zhenying is more familiar with the decades of ties between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

　　In 1979, Hong Kong practicing lawyer Liao Yaozhu organized more than 20 professionals from various fields of law, accounting, engineering, etc., and formally established the "Promotion of Modernization Professionals Association" in Hong Kong. Liang Zhenying was also one of them.

The scene he recalled was just a fragment of a seminar with other volunteers going to Shenzhen Shekou Industrial Zone on the weekend.

　　Liang Zhenying believes that in the past 40 years, Hong Kong's capital, production technology and management technology have laid an early foundation for the development of Shenzhen, and the continuous progress of Shenzhen has also benefited Hong Kong investors.

　　In reference to the speech made by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, at the celebration meeting that morning, Liang Zhenying attached great importance to President Xi’s six requirements for the development and construction of Shenzhen. The content of "Building the Greater Bay Area" was impressive.

　　Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to seize the major historical opportunities in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promote the integration of rules and mechanisms for economic operation in the three places, accelerate the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area intercity railway, and promote the efficient and convenient flow of various elements such as personnel and goods. , Improve the level of market integration.

　　Liang Zhenying believes that "the convergence of rules" is the crux of the current difficulties in the coordinated development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and it is also the reform problem that needs to be resolved in the integration of professionals in the Greater Bay Area.

If the "birthday gift" that President Xi gave to Shenzhen can be put in place, it will be a huge dividend for Hong Kong and the entire Greater Bay Area.

　　"China needs not only Hong Kong, but also Shenzhen." Liang Zhenying disagrees with the argument that Shenzhen and Hong Kong are ebb and flow. He believes that as Shenzhen's future roadmap becomes clearer, Hong Kong's next position is also very clear. .

In the foreseeable future, Hong Kong will continue to mobilize existing advantages such as an international financial center, an international trade center, and an international shipping center, accelerate the speed and efficiency of development, and do a good job in the coordinated development of the Bay Area.

　　Liang Zhenying pointed out that Hong Kong and Shenzhen are two of the few neighboring cities in the world with such a large scale but different industrial structures. Market forces are driving the further integration of the two economies.

For the next 40 years of Hong Kong-Shenzhen cooperation, Liang Zhenying said that the cooperation between Hong Kong's financial services industry and Shenzhen's high-tech manufacturing industry will produce synergies. "By then, Hong Kong + Shenzhen will be able to compete with Singapore and Silicon Valley."

　　In the next stage of the plan, Liang Zhenying is most concerned about the education of young people in the two places.

This is also an important part of the central government's deployment of the development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

　　Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to make full use of the major cooperation platforms of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau to attract more Hong Kong and Macau youths to study, work and live in the Mainland, promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive exchanges and in-depth integration among youths from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, and strengthen their centripetal force towards the motherland.

　　Nowadays, many Hong Kong and Macao students return to their hometowns after studying abroad, it is difficult to find suitable jobs, and the Greater Bay Area and even inland provinces lack relevant talents.

Leung Chun-ying bluntly said that the current prominent problem for Hong Kong youths in schools is political, and after leaving school, it is a problem of applying what they have learned. This is related to the direction set by the two places for the development of youth integration.

　　He metaphorically said that Hong Kong is like a piece of sweet chocolate, but if young people can walk into a candy store, they will find other colors, tastes, and textures more in line with their needs.

"Those non-chocolate candies are just north of the Shenzhen River. I hope young friends will cross the river to take a look." Liang Zhenying said.

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