China News Service, Guangzhou, September 27 (Reporter Guo Jun) The "2022 Fifth Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Forum" organized by the Economic Observer and Jingguan Media was held in Guangzhou on the 26th.
With the theme of "Creating a New Era of Prosperity and Development Together", this forum was held for the first time in a mixed mode of live broadcast and online + offline. development prospects.
Guo Hongchao, deputy editor-in-chief of the "Economic Observer", said in his speech that this year is the year of staged achievements in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The combined GDP of Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta has exceeded 40% of the national total, playing an important role as a national economic ballast, a source of high-quality development, and an experimental field for reform.
Throughout the past few years in the Greater Bay Area, as a whole, the coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area has undergone various changes to varying degrees. In the future, the Greater Bay Area will emerge with a richer new ecological pattern.
In the keynote speech of the first chapter "New 'Voice' of Policy", Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has begun to accelerate.
In recent years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has cooperated to build a world-class bay area. It is entering an era of technological innovation and institutional innovation, an era of narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, regional gaps and social distribution gaps, an era in which green development has become a common form, and an era of building The era of a new system of higher-level open economy, a new era that promotes the integrated development, inclusiveness and sharing of high-level market connectivity and regional integration.
In such a new era, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area must seize new opportunities, innovate new models, transform kinetic energy into the primary productive force, and promote the link between China and the West and the world economy.
Zhang Jun, a senior professor of liberal arts at Fudan University and dean of the School of Economics, said in his keynote speech that compared with the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is probably the city group with the best economic division of labor.
Hong Kong is a financial center, Guangzhou is a business center, Shenzhen is a science and technology center, Dongguan and Foshan are manufacturing centers, and Macau is a leisure and tourism center.
However, the construction model of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is not to form a "province and city", but to better play the role of Hong Kong and Macao in deepening the pattern of opening up.
Zhang Jun mentioned that Hong Kong should also emancipate its mind and make full use of the hinterland of the Bay Area.
The construction of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone should focus on the two key points of "expansion" and "reform and opening up"; the main line of promoting the moderately diversified development of Macao's economy should be accelerated, and the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone should be accelerated.
In 2022, the 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Forum will be held in Guangzhou.
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In the second chapter forum with the theme of "'Sound Level' Bay Area", the guests focused on the construction progress, opportunities and challenges, technological innovation, and financial opening of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under the framework of the new development pattern. The topic was discussed vigorously.
Yuan Yiming, a professor at the China Special Economic Zone Research Center of Shenzhen University, believes that how to make the mechanism of the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area connect with Hong Kong and Macao, form a flow combination of technological innovation elements between the two places, play the role of Hong Kong, and make it internationalized. Conditions and international influence play out very important.
Hu Weixing, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau and Director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Center at the University of Macau, believes that in the past five years, great achievements have been made in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, especially the development of hardware.
However, on the soft side, there are still many aspects that need to be done in terms of institutional arrangements, institutional connection, and policy communication.
In the keynote speech of the third chapter, "The Sound of Industry", Wang Zhongmin, chairman of the Shenzhen Institute of Financial Stability and Development, said in his keynote speech that finance, digitalization, and low-carbon green constitute the three-dimensional structure of the pyramid, which has a triangular shape. Stability, so there is a unified market, and the development of each dimension is unlimited. The Greater Bay Area is striving for the depth, breadth and new dimensions of development along such a three-dimensional pyramid structure.
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