China News Agency, Guangzhou, February 8th, title: The advantages of Guangdong and Hong Kong "go to both directions" and new highlights in the Greater Bay Area emerge one after another

  China News Agency reporter Chen Jian

  On the first day of comprehensive "customs clearance" between Guangdong and Hong Kong (February 6), there were about 220,000 people coming and going by land. People familiar with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (hereinafter referred to as the "Great Bay Area") quickly felt that Guangdong and Hong Kong The core advantages built over the years are "going in both directions" with this upsurge.

  In the eyes of seasoned observers and investors, Hong Kong, the most internationalized world financial center in the Greater Bay Area, and nine manufacturing cities in Guangdong, how to cooperate and develop in the "two-way travel" is the most important thing. Valuable point of view.

  After the Spring Festival, the officials in Guangdong and Hong Kong are very busy.

On January 28, the first day of work in the Lunar New Year, Guangdong held a provincial high-quality development conference, announcing that the promotion of high-quality development must be pragmatic and pragmatic, and all localities must "compare determination and drive".

At present, Guangdong, which pursues the "manufacturing industry", has ranked first in GDP in China for 34 consecutive years, and has focused on the development of 20 strategic industrial clusters.

  Coincidentally, on the first day of the comprehensive "customs clearance" between Guangdong and Hong Kong, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Li Jiachao, was not in Hong Kong. Unique advantages under the development of the Greater Bay Area.

  Hong Kong continues to maintain its status as an international financial center.

On January 11, the 16th Asian Financial Forum opened in Hong Kong.

High-level government officials and business leaders from more than 70 countries or regions attended the meeting, with a total of more than 7,000 people.

  Li Jiachao believes that Hong Kong is a bridge to the mainland. As an international metropolis, he will actively promote the unique advantage of "relying on the motherland and connecting the world" to different countries.

  Guangdong promotes high-quality development, while Hong Kong connects the world.

Some outsiders believe that the core advantages of Guangdong and Hong Kong are increasingly complementary.

  On the first day of the comprehensive "customs clearance" of Guangdong and Hong Kong, there is another important development: On February 6, a Hong Kong delegation consisting of 80 members launched a two-day investigation in Nansha, Guangzhou.

  The first stop of the delegation chose Nansha Qingsheng Hub Complex Project.

It turns out that this is the first Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation project in the Nansha Free Trade Zone Qingsheng Hub Block, and it is also the first pilot project to try out the Hong Kong engineering construction management model.

Guo Jihui, a member of the delegation and executive director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, revealed that the project provides important support for the construction of the "half-hour traffic circle" in the Greater Bay Area.

  The work of the "half-hour traffic circle" in the Greater Bay Area has started.

Guangzhou's official media disclosed about two months ago that the key construction project in Nansha District - the rapid transformation project of Wanhuan West Road in Nansha, which connects the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage, officially started.

This project is a major transportation project to open up the overall blockchain of Nansha and create a "half-hour traffic circle" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  Observers also noticed that a message was sent out by Guangdong and Hong Kong before the full "customs clearance", reflecting the mutual views of the business circles and people of the two places.

  Jiangmen, known as "China's No. 1 Hometown of Overseas Chinese", held the first China Overseas Chinese Capital (Jiangmen) Coffee Culture Week on February 3.

After 2000, many retirees from Hong Kong came to Guangdong to live, and they also brought coffee drinking habits.

Jiangmen took the lead in introducing a number of coffee companies from Hong Kong and Macau by virtue of its geographical proximity to Hong Kong and Macau.

After more than 20 years of development, Jiangmen, the capital of overseas Chinese, has become an important coffee processing and production base and trade center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  The Hong Kong Productivity Council recently released the survey results of the "Standard Chartered Hong Kong SME Leading Business Index" for the first quarter of 2023.

The results show that 11% of the interviewed SMEs already have sales in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area. In addition, 24% of the interviewed SMEs indicated that they have already expanded or are considering further expanding their business to mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area or increasing investment.

  To put it simply, Guangdong and Hong Kong are fully "cleared through customs", and the two-way travel is not only the flow of people, goods, capital, technology and information, but more importantly, the cooperation and exchange of core advantages between Guangdong and Hong Kong.

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