Hong Kong Youth Pursue Dreams in the Greater Bay Area: Show your talents on a broad stage (take the road of characteristic development)


  Walking into Shenzhen-Hong Kong Zhonghaixin Science and Technology Park, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Hong Kong youth Pan Zhihao is conducting product testing with the company's technical staff.

After passing the sample performance test, sending customer confirmation, order mass production, product launch... After these processes, Pan Zhihao's product cluster will add another member.

  "The HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface), wireless control and intelligent voice series products produced by the company have now reached 13 countries around the world." Pan Zhihao founded two companies in Hong Kong in 2008 and 2010, and is optimistic about the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Taking the opportunity, he also established Bosheng Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, which integrates the R&D and application of high-definition audio-visual digital technology, and led hundreds of employees to start a business together.

  "If Hong Kong youths want to improve their competitiveness, they can choose to develop in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area to realize their personal pursuits and career planning." Pan Zhihao believes that the integrated development of the Greater Bay Area brings infinite vitality to the development of individuals and enterprises.

Like him, more and more young people in Hong Kong choose to embrace the Greater Bay Area and realize their life dreams on a bigger stage.

  Integrate into the overall situation of national development

  "The future development of Hong Kong is bound to be inseparable from the development of the country. The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is the best entry point for Hong Kong to actively integrate into the overall development of the country." Yuan Minzhong, Commissioner for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of ​​the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that the youth are the country. In the future, the SAR government will continue to support young people from Hong Kong to work in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area.

  Yuan Minzhong said that in 2021, the SAR government will launch the "Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Plan" to encourage and subsidize companies with businesses in Hong Kong and the mainland to hire Hong Kong college graduates to work in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area. Currently, nearly 1,100 graduates have graduated. Student entry.

The SAR government launched the "Greater Bay Area Youth Entrepreneurship Funding Scheme" under the "Youth Development Fund", which is expected to provide capital for 230 start-ups involving more than 800 young people, and provide entrepreneurial support and incubation services to about 4,000 young people.

  Today, there are 689 young Hong Kong youths going to Shenzhen to work through the "Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Program".

"Consulting work belongs to the high-end service industry, which is a competitive industry in Hong Kong and one of the directions for Shenzhen's vigorous development. When you come to work in Shenzhen, you can get in touch with many mainland companies and increase your personal experience." Li Zhuoxi said.

  The development of the Greater Bay Area is thriving and its attractiveness is getting stronger and stronger.

According to a recent KPMG employment trend survey report, the proportion of Hong Kong respondents who are willing to move to other cities in the Greater Bay Area has increased year by year, from 52% in 2019 to 72% in 2022.

Career and industry development prospects, convenient transportation, broader work horizons, and higher salaries are all important reasons for Hong Kong talents to choose the Greater Bay Area to build their dreams.

  Deepening understanding of the Mainland

  Born in 1997, Cai Jialin, after completing his studies in Hong Kong, took the initiative to cross the Shenzhen River, came to Guangdong to pursue a career, and devoted himself to the construction of the Greater Bay Area.

After 5 rounds of interviews, he joined Tencent in Shenzhen, where he is mainly responsible for youth development, public welfare and charity.

  Assisted in organizing the youth forum of "Set sail, soar in the Bay Area"; led more than 30 Hong Kong youths to visit the "Tide Rising Pearl River" exhibition to learn the development process of Shenzhen's reform and opening up for more than 40 years; walked into the ancient city of Dapeng to gain an in-depth understanding of the history of Shenzhen... Through planning and organizing exchange activities, Cai Jialin's understanding of the mainland has been deepened.

  "When you go to every city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, you will see that the changes are very fast. It used to take more than an hour to travel to and from Shenzhen and Hong Kong, but now it takes only ten minutes by high-speed rail, and the "one-hour living circle" in the Greater Bay Area has become a reality. All of this makes me feel a sense of belonging and I am very proud." Cai Jialin said.

  With the promulgation and implementation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the interconnection of the Greater Bay Area has been accelerated, and nine mainland cities in the Bay Area have continuously introduced a series of highly targeted and valuable policy measures.

  Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Zhongshan... Hong Kong youth Cai Zhansi has been in Guangzhou Nansha for less than a year and has already traveled to many cities in the Greater Bay Area.

As the head of Guangzhou Xinhua Hong Kong and Macau International Youth Entrepreneurship Center, he is constantly striving to bring more Hong Kong and Macau youth entrepreneurship teams to the Greater Bay Area.

The Youth Entrepreneurship Center has now attracted more than 20 Hong Kong enterprises and business associations to settle in.

"Whether it is a first-for-first-run policy, or special fund support and talent pooling, Nansha will become a good choice for Hong Kong youth to integrate into the Greater Bay Area and develop." Cai Zhansi said.

  Bring what you have learned to the Greater Bay Area

  Complementary advantages and strong alliances are also the meaning of the integrated development of the Greater Bay Area.

"The mainland has obvious advantages in human resources. Especially in Shenzhen, it has a complete ecological chain. As an international city, Hong Kong can quickly promote the internationalization of products. The combination of the two advantages can accelerate the implementation of product research and development." Pan Zhihao said.

  "After I came to Nansha in 2016, I didn't want to leave." Hong Kong youth Yang Mei seized the policy dividends of the Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone and founded the Greater Bay Area International Art Bonded Industry Center, bringing transformation and upgrading to Hong Kong's traditional art trading industry. New kinetic energy.

  "Utilizing the characteristics of Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone's 'inside and outside customs', we negotiated with the Hong Kong Art Fair to set up a warehouse for goods in Nansha, which not only reduces the cost of art collection institutions, but also allows Nansha to form an art industry cluster." Yang Mei said.

  Guo Weiqiang, a Hong Kong youth who started a business in Qianhai, Shenzhen, said: "I have been in Qianhai for almost 6 years, and new changes are taking place here every day. I really feel the vitality of the Greater Bay Area. Nowadays, more and more young people from Hong Kong are integrated into The Greater Bay Area is striving for dreams. From 'here comes from Shenzhen' to 'everyone is from the Bay Area', everyone starts businesses, works, lives and lives here, and integrates their personal ideals into the overall national development."

  Pan Zhihao said that he hopes to use his own experience to tell more outstanding Hong Kong youths about the development potential of the Greater Bay Area, and to attract more Hong Kong youths to bring what they have learned to the Greater Bay Area, so as to contribute to the construction of a world-class bay area.

  Zhang Pan