China News Agency, Beijing, February 23 (Reporter Zhang Xiaoxi) The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Li Jiachao, led a delegation to visit Guangzhou and Shenzhen on the 23rd, starting his first visit to mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area after taking office.
Many experts said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that the full resumption of customs clearance between Hong Kong, Macao and the Mainland is conducive to the efficient and convenient flow of personnel, funds, and information. The construction of the Bay Area explores new models and new paths for Chinese-style modernization.
After arriving in Guangzhou on the 23rd, Li Jiachao posted on social platforms that the SAR delegation will take advantage of this trip to actively promote the facilitation of two-way talent flows, innovation and technology cooperation, and financial service cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as the promotion of Hong Kong institutions of higher learning in the Greater Bay Area. Cooperation projects in inland cities, etc.
He firmly believes that the team will make good use of Hong Kong's advantages to make new and greater contributions to the high-quality construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Bi Yanying, deputy dean and professor of the School of International Relations, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that with the full recovery of personnel exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, the social order is good, and the economic engine of the Greater Bay Area will surely accelerate.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is the best area to combine the frontiers of domestic reform and economic globalization. We look forward to exploring and forming a new model of Chinese-style modernization in the Greater Bay Area.
Bi Yanying believes that the connotation of economic construction in the new era points to high-quality development. The Chinese economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. The optimization of economic structure and the transformation of growth momentum have become important goals of economic construction.
"One country, two systems" is the biggest feature of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and it is also a unique advantage. In the future, Hong Kong and Macao can further leverage the advantages of Hong Kong and Macao, which are backed by the motherland and connected to the world, such as systems and geography, and connect with the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area National development strategies such as the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, make full use of the support policies of the central government, and carry out broader and closer exchanges and cooperation with all parts of the world.
She also pointed out that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can give full play to the advantages of influential universities, scientific research institutions, high-tech enterprises and large-scale national scientific projects in the region, attract and gather the world's cutting-edge scientific and technological talents, fully utilize global scientific and technological innovation resources, and improve Innovate the cooperation system and mechanism, optimize the development model of cross-regional cooperation and innovation, and lead the direction of the world's technological innovation and development.
It is hoped that the Greater Bay Area will strengthen its opening orientation, actively build a new open economic system, and establish a high-level open platform.
Xie Laifeng, deputy director of the Institute of Hong Kong, Macau and Regional Development of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, believes that the original intention of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is to ensure the stability and long-term development of "one country, two systems", support Hong Kong and Macau to better integrate into the overall development of the country, and also support Hong Kong and Macau Consolidate and enhance competitive advantages and play a better role in national development.
As a strategic fulcrum for the country to build a new dual-cycle development pattern, the construction of the Greater Bay Area is conducive to the country's integration into the global economic and trade system and docking with global rules and standards; at the same time, the Greater Bay Area has advantages in technological innovation, strategic industries, and international talents. It can explore models and paths for the country to realize Chinese-style modernization and high-quality development, and gather various high-end element resources.
Liang Meifen, deputy to the National People's Congress of the Hong Kong District and associate professor of the School of Law of the City University of Hong Kong, believes that cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should find their own characteristics and give full play to their advantages.
Hong Kong's strength lies in the institutional advantages of "one country, two systems", and it can provide professional services in finance, law, accounting, insurance, etc.
"Many international companies that have set up their headquarters in Hong Kong are interested in the opportunities in the Greater Bay Area." Liang Meifen expressed the hope that Hong Kong can continue to play the role of "bringing in" and "going out" to open up new prospects for the development of itself and the country .
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