When you think of Hong Kong, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Pearl of the Orient, an international financial, shipping, and trade center, but the new label of "Innovation and Technology Center" may be ignored.
General Secretary Xi Jinping is far-sighted and clearly pointed out: "To promote Hong Kong and the mainland to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, to support Hong Kong to become an international innovation and technology center, to give full play to the respective scientific and technological advantages of the mainland and Hong Kong, and to contribute to the economic development and improvement of people's livelihood in Hong Kong and the mainland. 'One country, two systems' is what it should have in the title."
Hong Kong's innovation and technology has always affected the heart of the general secretary——
While working in Fujian, encourage Hong Kong high-tech enterprises to transfer and extend to Fujian;
When serving as the vice-president of the country, he praised Hong Kong for its many world-class achievements in the preparations for the Olympic equestrian events;
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it has expressed concern and concern for Hong Kong's innovation and technology on many occasions, and constantly encourages Hong Kong's innovation and technology to integrate into the development pattern of the motherland and create gratifying achievements.
A letter, an instruction, build a "bridge between hearts"
In June 2017, 24 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering in Hong Kong wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping, expressing their urgent desire to serve the motherland and their great enthusiasm for developing innovative technology.
The general secretary attached great importance to this and made important instructions.
"Hong Kong has a relatively solid scientific and technological foundation, and has many high-quality scientific and technological talents who love the country and Hong Kong. This is an important force for my country to implement the innovation-driven development strategy and build an innovative country. For a long time, Hong Kong's science and technology community has developed for Hong Kong and the country. made an important contribution.”
——This evaluation shows the general secretary's high affirmation of Hong Kong's science and technology foundation and the contribution of Hong Kong's patriotic and Hong Kong science and technology talents to the development of the country and Hong Kong.
"We must pay attention to the problems reflected in the letter from the Hong Kong academicians, and promptly study and formulate specific policies to solve them reasonably, so as to support the Hong Kong science and technology community to contribute to our construction of a scientific and technological power and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
——This support is another vivid manifestation of the General Secretary's "Hong Kong's development has always affected my heart".
The spirit of the General Secretary's important instructions has aroused enthusiastic responses from all walks of life in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong media described it as a "major breakthrough" and a "historic breakthrough". Hong Kong's innovation and technology industry ushered in the spring of great development.
Everything has its fall, and everything has an echo.
Relevant state departments systematically implement the important instructions from General Secretary Xi Jinping to the academicians of the two academies in Hong Kong, support the in-depth participation of scientific researchers who love the country and Hong Kong in the national science and technology plan, and orderly expand and deepen the cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong in science and technology;
In February 2019, the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" was issued, emphasizing that Hong Kong should "vigorously develop innovation and technology undertakings and foster emerging industries";
In March 2021, the 14th Five-Year Plan outline clearly supports Hong Kong in building an international innovation and technology center;
In September 2021, the "Plan for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening Up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone" proposed to "vigorously develop new R&D institutions for cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, innovate the management system for technology cooperation, and promote the connection between Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland's innovation chain". ...
"Technological innovation, like leveraging the earth, can always create unexpected miracles." With the deepening of scientific and technological cooperation with the Mainland, Hong Kong's status as an international innovation and technology center has been continuously improved.
A bridge, a sea, witnessing the footsteps of Hong Kong's innovation and technology integration into the overall development of the country
In the early morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone on Lingding Yang, the 55-kilometer Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was like a rainbow across the sea.
This sea bears the indelible memory of shame more than a hundred years ago——
Since the Qing Dynasty was bombarded by the powerful ships of the "Sun Never Sets" Empire, China has been beaten time and time again by countries whose economic aggregate, population size, and territory are far inferior to their own. Hong Kong has also experienced a century of humiliation.
This bridge has created the legend of my country's science and technology innovation in the new era——
This is the first super-large cross-sea transportation project jointly built by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao under the "one country, two systems" principle, and is known as the "Mount Everest in the field of infrastructure construction".
"History tells us a truth: the strength of a country cannot be determined solely by the size of its economic aggregate, and the strength of a nation cannot be determined solely by the size of its population and territory. In modern history, one of the roots of our country's backwardness and beatings is technology. backward." General Secretary Xi Jinping's words revealed the profound logic contained in the historical evolution.
This sea and this bridge also witness the efforts of Hong Kong's innovation and technology to integrate into the overall development of the motherland and share major development opportunities.
Maybe you don't know, in recent years, Hong Kong has participated in many major scientific and technological projects - the "Camera Pointing System" of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University followed the Chang'e-4 lunar exploration, and the "Mars Camera" successfully landed on Mars with the Tianwen-1, providing services for Hong Kong and Hong Kong. An important contribution to the development of the country...
The relevant person in charge of the Innovation and Technology Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government said: "At present, the development of Hong Kong's innovation and technology industry can be described as vigorous, and it is ushering in unprecedented golden opportunities." opportunities, and achieve better development while integrating into the overall national development.
A strategy, a piece of paradise, igniting the "innovation and technology dream" of Hong Kong youth
The east wind is coming again, and the tide of the South China Sea is coming again.
Shenzhen Qianhai Stone, this stone that has been "becoming" an "Internet celebrity" for 10 years, continues to gain popularity.
On December 7, 2012, next to Qianhai Stone, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued a call for reform and opening up, and "Qianhai" became a hot word for a while, and Hong Kong youth Chen Sheng planted the seeds of entrepreneurship in his heart.
Three years later, he and his partners became the first batch of teams to settle in Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth DreamWorks.
In 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Qianhai again.
Chen Sheng recalled: "The general secretary said that DreamWorks is a place where dreams come true. This makes us very excited."
In the past ten years, Qianhai has turned from a tidal flat to a fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship, fulfilling the "creative science dream" of countless Hong Kong youths.
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.
Innovation is deeply rooted in the genes of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, from the Hong Kong Science Park, which focuses on artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other fields, to the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park, which targets the biomedicine and big health industries; from Songshan Lake Science Park From the China Spallation Neutron Source in the city, to the Futian International Quantum Research Institute in the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone; from the "DJI UAV" and "Yunzhou Unmanned Ship" and other innovative cooperation projects in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau have successfully landed, The coordinated development model of the science and technology industry of "Hong Kong and Macao universities - Hong Kong and Macao scientific research achievements - Pearl River Delta transformation" has been widely replicated... Under the guidance of the innovation-driven development strategy, key elements such as capital, technology, talent, and information in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have accelerated. With the circulation, a number of major scientific and technological innovation projects continue to emerge, and the scientific and technological innovation capability has been continuously improved.
The trees are tall and leafy, tied to deep roots.
"For Hong Kong and Macau, 'one country, two systems' is the biggest advantage, national reform and opening up is the biggest stage, and the implementation of national strategies such as the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a new major opportunity." President Xi Jinping The secretary has long-term plans for the future development of Hong Kong and Macau.
Looking to the future, as long as we seize the development opportunities and follow the trend of the times, Hong Kong's innovation and technology business will surely be like the theme song "Before" celebrating the 25th anniversary of China's return to the motherland: "In the face of this opportunity, in the face of hope, exercise well... The dreamer sets off for the starting line and crosses the line under this Lion Mountain..."
Planning: Wen Hongyan, Du Shangze
Coordinator: Zhang Wei, Li Xiang
Text: Li Xiang
Design: Song Song, Wang Wei, Wang Yufeng