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The online theme event "Continuing the Story of Spring" started on September 19.
The event is directed by the Network Communication Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, co-hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Cyberspace Administration, the Guangdong Greater Bay Area Office, the Shenzhen Municipal Committee Cyberspace Administration and China Economic Net, and undertaken by Jinyang.com, aiming to focus on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Construction, focusing on promoting the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to build a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster, the three places work together to promote "hard connectivity" and "soft connectivity", and jointly build live cases of living, business, tourism, and high-quality living circles. and vivid stories.
From now on, China Economic Net and the main news websites of Guangdong Province will launch a series of reports on the whole network around the theme of the event.
In July 2017, under the witness of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the "Framework Agreement on Deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation to Promote the Construction of the Greater Bay Area" was signed, and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was officially launched.
Over the past five years, a series of policies and measures to support the construction of the Greater Bay Area have been successively introduced from the central government to various regions. The integrated development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has been accelerated. A world-class dynamic bay area with unlimited development potential is changing from a beautiful vision to a vivid reality.
"Soft" and "Hard" Unicom enhances the level of market integration
Since the start of the construction of the Greater Bay Area, the infrastructure of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has been "hard-connected", the system and mechanism "softly connected", accelerated integration, and progress in the same direction. On February 18, 2019, "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Planning Outline" The official announcement marks that the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has entered the stage of full implementation.
The Greater Bay Area actively explores "one thing, three places, one policy and three places, and one regulation and three places", boldly ventures and tests, and strives to turn institutional differences into reform dividends.
The business environment has been continuously optimized. A shorter negative list has been implemented for Hong Kong and Macao under the framework of CEPA, and the liberalization of trade in services with Hong Kong and Macao has basically been achieved. Hong Kong and Macao enterprises enjoy national treatment when investing and doing business in the fields of law, accounting, and construction.
The commercial registration of Hong Kong and Macao enterprises has achieved "one-stop service", and the establishment time of enterprises has been shortened to within one working day.
In eight fields, including doctors, teachers, and tour guides, unilateral recognition has led to mutual recognition. More than 3,100 professionals from Hong Kong and Macao have obtained mainland registration and practice qualifications. The scope of professional qualification recognition and standard convergence continues to expand.
The first batch of "Bay Area Standards" list covers 70 standards in 23 fields including food.
In July this year, “Bond Connect” celebrated its 5th anniversary.
This innovative mechanism opens up a new channel for overseas funds to invest in the domestic inter-bank market, and further consolidates Hong Kong's status as an international financial center.
In the past five years, the average daily trading volume of Bond Connect “Northbound” has increased from about 2 billion yuan to more than 30 billion yuan, an increase of more than 10 times.
Breaking through the shackles of the system and mechanism, the rules of Shenzhen and Hong Kong accelerated the integration, and one by one was born for the first time.
For the first time, the rapid entry and exit of scientific research equipment and scientific research personnel in the cooperation zone has been realized, and the "credit + second approval" of Hong Kong scientific research institutions has been realized for the first time.
The first domestic tax attorney firm invested by Hong Kong and Macau was established, and the introduction of measures such as relaxing the practice restrictions of Hong Kong and Macau tax professionals attracted a large number of Hong Kong tax attorneys to work in Shenzhen.
The "soft connection" of the rules mechanism is producing chemical reactions in various fields.
In the past three years, Guangdong Province has introduced more than 50,000 Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises, and the actual use of Hong Kong and Macao funds has reached more than 340 billion yuan.
"Soft Unicom" is accelerating the implementation, and infrastructure "hard Unicom" is also accelerating.
The railway operating mileage in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is nearly 2,500 kilometers, and the "Greater Bay Area on Track" is being formed rapidly; the customs clearance efficiency of the three ports has been greatly improved, and the innovative implementation of "one-stop customs clearance", "cooperative inspection, one-time release" and other convenient customs clearance Mode, 2/3 of the inbound and outbound passengers pass through the customs through self-service, and basically achieve a queue of no more than 30 minutes.
The formation of world-class airport clusters and port clusters in the Greater Bay Area is accelerating. The airport's passenger throughput capacity reaches 220 million person-times, and the port's annual container throughput capacity is about 85 million TEUs.
In May of this year, the Lingdingyang Bridge, a key control project of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage, entered the construction of the main superstructure project in an all-round way.
After this super sea-crossing cluster project integrating "bridges, islands, tunnels and underwater communication" is opened to traffic, the commute time from Shenzhen to Zhongshan will be reduced from the current 2 hours to 30 minutes.
From the opening of large-scale cross-border infrastructure such as the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, to the innovative implementation of "one-stop customs clearance" at the Hengqin Port and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge-Zhuhai-Macao Port, cities in the Greater Bay Area are more closely connected. The 1-hour traffic circle" is basically formed.
From promoting infrastructure interconnection to enhancing the level of market integration, from exploring scientific and technological innovation cooperation to planning and building an industrial system for coordinated development, in recent years, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have seized opportunities to deepen cooperation and advance in an orderly manner.
Shared innovation promotes high-quality development of the Bay Area
The sharing and circulation of scientific and technological elements are crucial to building a collaborative innovation environment for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area will open up the doors of innovative resources, and promote the opening and sharing of large scientific installations and key laboratories to Hong Kong, Macao and the world.
Among them, China's spallation neutron source has been put into operation, and five major scientific and technological infrastructures are planned to be constructed during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, ranking first in the country in number.
10 Guangdong laboratories and 20 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories are running well, gathering many domestic and foreign academicians and scientists as well as Hong Kong and Macao scientific research institutions.
Under the guidance of the innovation-driven development strategy, the capital, technology, talents, information and other key elements in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have accelerated the circulation, a number of major technological innovation projects have been emerging, and the technological innovation capabilities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are being completely improved. .
At present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has the largest number of incubators and maker spaces in the country, and the number of valid invention patents and the number of valid PCT international patent applications rank first in the country; the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster has been ranked among the top 100 global innovation clusters. Second place.
Explore the formation of a technology-industry collaborative development model of "Hong Kong and Macao universities - Hong Kong and Macao scientific research achievements - Pearl River Delta transformation". Major scientific research achievements from Hong Kong and Macao such as DJI drones have been successfully transformed and landed in the Pearl River Delta. batch of emerging industry clusters.
In recent years, Guangzhou Nansha has deepened the comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao facing the world. The national import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone, comprehensive bonded zone, international talent special zone, cross-border trade and investment high-level opening pilot and other major national platform policies have been approved and implemented successively. The Provincial Laboratory of Marine Science and Engineering has gathered 16 academician teams to innovate the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cooperation Advisory Committee mechanism. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) opened in September this year, and the comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau has reached a new level.
The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone has achieved remarkable results and has become one of the innovation engines of the Greater Bay Area.
More and more innovation teams, scientific research institutions, and corporate R&D centers have chosen to settle in Hetao, gathering a strong scientific and technological innovation force.
On August 1, the self-driving car of Shenzhen-based company Yuanrong Qixing hit the road. The vehicle's perception system identifies the surrounding vehicles and their moving direction and speed in advance, and adjusts its own speed to pass safely.
Faced with a pedestrian crossing the road suddenly, the system stepped on the brakes and yielded to the pedestrian.
Behind a "smart" self-driving car is the rising trend of Shenzhen's 100 billion intelligent networked industrial cluster, and it is also a vivid footnote that Shenzhen focuses on innovation and strives to build a high-quality development highland.
Accelerate integration to create a world-class dynamic bay area
At the beginning of the blueprint, a very challenging goal has been set: that is to build a fourth pole of the Greater Bay Area in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region that can rival the other three bay areas in the world - New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
The world-class bay area economy is the brightest pearl in the process of urbanization, and the key to its formation is the integration of bay city clusters.
Compared with the other three bay areas in the world, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is the most difficult bay area for integrated development, because the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is "one country, two systems, three customs areas, three legal systems, three currency”, a level of sophistication that is unique in the world.
In September 2021, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone" and the "Comprehensive Deepening of the Reform and Opening-up Plan for Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone" were successively issued. Mobility, the two most basic and critical areas, has entered into self-revolution, and put forward a number of practical measures to solve the problem of integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
With the advancement of a series of institutional arrangements and infrastructure construction, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have deepened cooperation in an all-round way, and the flow of people, logistics, capital and information flows efficiently, and "system differences" are constantly being transformed into "system benefits".
At the end of June this year, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone released "Nine Practical Things" to benefit Hong Kong, covering nine aspects including housing, entrepreneurial services, employment, platforms, technology innovation, finance, settlement, and people's livelihood, providing services for Hong Kong people and Hong Kong enterprises to develop in Qianhai. Full support.
At the same time, the North District of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Workshop was built, expanding the space for youth entrepreneurship to 139,000 square meters, and accumulatively incubating 335 Hong Kong entrepreneurial teams.
The development of the cooperation zone has made the communication between Qin and Macao more convenient, and it only takes 5 minutes to clear customs every day.
In addition, the cooperation zone has implemented the "cross-border handling, one-place, two-note" mechanism for commercial registration. This mechanism provides investors with business handling services on the spot by setting up service points in the Macao Special Administrative Region and the Hengqin Cooperation Zone to realize the realization of the Mainland Complete business (business) registration with Macao investors without leaving the country (Macao).
The facilitation measures have promoted the continuous growth of Australian-funded enterprises in Hengqin. As of the end of August this year, there were 54,331 enterprises in the Hengqin Cooperation Zone, of which 5,012 were Australian-funded enterprises, accounting for 64.47% of the total number of foreign-funded enterprises.
At present, the Hengqin Cooperation Zone has become the area with the highest concentration of Australian-funded enterprises in the Mainland.
Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha and other major cooperation platforms have once again added wings to the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Guangzhou and Shenzhen are "linked with each other", the core engine functions are continuously enhanced, and the central city's radiating and driving role has been effectively brought into play.
The data shows that in 2021, the total economic volume of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be about 12.6 trillion yuan, an increase of about 2.4 trillion yuan over 2017; 25 of the world's top 500 companies have entered the Greater Bay Area, an increase of 8 over 2017; Guangdong Province is now There are more than 60,000 high-tech enterprises, most of which are in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a net increase of more than 20,000 over 2017...
After five years of construction, the 56,000-square-kilometer Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, covering a population of over 80 million, is accelerating toward its goal of becoming a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster, showing unprecedented vigor.
(Wei Min, reporter from China Economic Net)