(25th Anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong) "Hong Kong's Role" in the Greater Bay Area: Embracing Opportunities and Persevering
China News Agency, Hong Kong, June 24th: "Hong Kong Role" in the Greater Bay Area: Embracing Opportunities and Persevering
China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
14.76 trillion yuan!
This is the economic aggregate that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (hereinafter referred to as the "Greater Bay Area") is expected to achieve in 2022, which means that the Greater Bay Area may become the largest bay area in the world's economic aggregate, which boosts the confidence of all walks of life The data comes from a report recently released by the China Development Research Foundation.
The picture shows Hong Kong's New Territories North, which is in sharp contrast with Shenzhen's high-rise buildings. In the future, the northern metropolitan area will be built here.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
Since the implementation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for more than three years, the Hong Kong SAR has integrated into the overall national development situation with "Hong Kong's strengths and the country's needs", and has found new development opportunities in the construction of the Greater Bay Area.
Despite the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Hong Kong's efforts as a "stakeholder" in the Greater Bay Area have not slackened.
The "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect" in the Greater Bay Area will be officially launched in 2021, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will take a stake in the Guangzhou Futures Exchange; the pilot work of the "Hong Kong-Macao Medicine Machinery Connect" in the Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong has been completed. Currently, 16 kinds of drugs and 11 kinds of medical devices are available. It is used in five hospitals approved by the Guangdong Provincial Health and Health Commission; the Hong Kong Trade Development Council will launch the GoGBA "Bay Area Economic and Trade Link" digital platform in 2021, and also set up a Greater Bay Area Service Center in Shenzhen to support Hong Kong enterprises in developing domestic sales in the Greater Bay Area. market……
The picture shows an advertisement for "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect" on the streets of Central, Hong Kong.
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The Plan for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone announced in September 2021 makes Qianhai a new starting point for Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation.
A month later, the Hong Kong SAR government proposed the "Northern Metropolitan Area Development Strategy" and the concept of the spatial pattern of "Two Cities and Three Circles".
The "Northern Metropolitan Area Development Strategy" is the first program compiled by the Hong Kong SAR Government under the framework of "One Country, Two Systems", which crosses the administrative boundary between Hong Kong and Shenzhen in terms of spatial concept and strategic thinking.
Hong Kong will develop Lok Ma Chau and San Tin area into San Tin Science and Technology City, and form a cooperation zone covering an area of about 540 hectares with Shenzhen Science and Technology Park; Greater Bay Area Innovation and Technology Express”, and established a network of incubation centers to assist Hong Kong start-ups to develop in the Greater Bay Area.
In terms of cross-border land transportation, the governments of Hong Kong and Shenzhen have set up a "special class to promote the construction of cross-border rail infrastructure in Hong Kong and Shenzhen" to jointly build a "Greater Bay Area on the track".
The picture shows the file photo of the first day of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge on October 24, 2018.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
The rapid economic development of the Greater Bay Area has put forward practical requirements for the connection mechanism of inter-regional legal rules.
In 2019, the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province and the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong SAR Government signed the "Framework Arrangement on Legal Exchange and Mutual Learning in the Greater Bay Area", and in July 2021, the Supreme People's Court and the Minutes of talks on exchanges and cooperation.
In April 2022, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Judicial Case Seminar will be held. Judicial, legal and academic persons from the three places will jointly discuss how to connect the rules and mechanisms for cross-jurisdictional commercial dispute litigation and promote the construction of the rule of law in the Greater Bay Area.
Deng Fei, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency a few days ago that maintaining the international and open nature of mainland state-owned and private enterprises, and using the advantages of Hong Kong's higher education to attract world-renowned professors and experts, including Chinese, to Hong Kong , is also the "Hong Kong Director".
It is understood that the Hong Kong SAR government has also continued to support Hong Kong post-secondary institutions in running schools in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area.
Among them, the campus construction project of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and the preparations for the establishment of the Shenzhen campus of the University of Hong Kong are progressing as planned.
The continuous development of the Greater Bay Area provides a broad space for the development of Hong Kong youth.
"There is a saying in Cantonese called 'pond water rolling pond fish', which means that a fish pond is just a few squares of water, and there are only a few fish that come and go, and nothing new can come out." Deng Fei said that young people in Hong Kong Opportunities for upward mobility are limited. Young people in Hong Kong should pay full attention to the various policies of the country in the Greater Bay Area, and try their best to expand their careers to the Greater Bay Area and the mainland beyond the Greater Bay Area.
On the basis of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Entrepreneurship Funding Scheme" launched in March 2019, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will launch the "Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme" in 2021. It has received more than 20,000 job applications from graduates. Nearly 1,100 people were hired.
The picture shows the data picture on the first day of the opening of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link on September 23, 2018.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
A few days ago, the State Council issued the "Guangzhou Nansha Comprehensive Plan for Deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Comprehensive Cooperation Facing the World", proposing that by 2025, Nansha will be built into a new home for Hong Kong and Macao youth to live and work in peace and contentment; by 2035, the number of Hong Kong and Macao residents in the region will increase significantly.
Ye Jianming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Hong Kong and executive vice chairman of the Hong Kong Island Federation of All Circles, believes that the Nansha plan emphasizes creating a platform for youth entrepreneurship and employment cooperation, strengthening cultural exchanges between young people, and helping Hong Kong and Macao residents solve their worries about living and working in Nansha.
People-to-people and cultural exchanges and integration are also the meaning of the development of the Greater Bay Area.
Zhan Sheng, member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Youth Federation, said: "The Greater Bay Area provides broader soil and richer nutrients. Hong Kong's cultural industry just seizes the opportunity to actively take root in it and grow into a 'towering tree' of culture."
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