China News Service, Dongguan, December 1st (Li Yingmin and Li Huo) The 2021 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Academician Summit and Songshan Lake Science Conference opened in Dongguan, Guangdong on the 1st. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam and the Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region He Yicheng respectively at the opening ceremony Video speech.

  Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will use a new mindset to develop innovation and technology at full speed and integrate into the overall development of the country.

The picture shows Carrie Lam visiting Huazhong Numerical Control Co., Ltd.

  Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that Hong Kong scientists have been actively contributing to the development of national innovation and technology. Hong Kong will use new thinking to develop innovation and technology at full speed and integrate into the overall situation of national development.

In the past four years, the SAR government has invested more than 130 billion Hong Kong dollars to promote the development of innovation and technology for the development of infrastructure, promoting scientific research, cultivating talents, supporting the industry, etc., achieving desired results.

  Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that in her "Policy Address" published in October this year, she proposed a development strategy for the northern metropolitan area, which will add more than 150 hectares of land for innovation and technology on the existing basis, and will strengthen cooperation with Shenzhen.

In addition, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation will establish the Greater Bay Area Innovation and Technology Fast Track and the Greater Bay Area Innovation and Technology Express in Shenzhen to cultivate talents and start-ups respectively, and establish a network of incubation centers in the Greater Bay Area campuses of local universities.

  Carrie Lam said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Academician Alliance, co-sponsored by six academicians in Hong Kong, was formally established in Hong Kong in April this year. It is committed to discussing policies related to technological innovation and development in the Greater Bay Area and cooperating with the Greater Bay Area. Relevant departments and industries within the country promote the cooperation and development of science and technology innovation.

Data map: He Yicheng, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region.

Photo by Zhong Xin issued by China News Agency

  He Yicheng, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, said in a speech that academicians and experts are welcome to Hengqin to innovate and start businesses, and jointly build the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone, and work together to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into a world-class bay area.

  He Yicheng said that on September 5 this year, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council clarified that the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone "a new platform to promote the moderately diversified economic development of Macao and facilitate Macao residents. New space for life and employment, a new demonstration of enriching the practice of "one country, two systems", and a new highland for promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" four strategic positioning.

This is a major deployment of the central government to support the moderately diversified economic development of Macao and enrich the practice of "one country, two systems". It has injected new impetus into the long-term development of Macao and will surely promote Macao's integration into the overall development of the country.

  He Yicheng said that academicians and experts are welcome to come to Macau and Hengqin to innovate and start businesses, and jointly build the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone.

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