The launch of the "Bay Affairs" mini program, the release of the report on the development of the digital economy in the Greater Bay Area, and the launch of the developer competition... Recently, the three-day 3nd Digital Government Construction Summit and "Digital Bay Area Development Forum" was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. As China's first summit focusing on the construction of the "Digital Bay Area", this summit was co-hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Hong Kong and Macao SAR Governments, with the theme of "Innovation Drives the Construction of the Digital Bay Area, Data Empowers High-quality Development", and set up summit forums, thematic forums and achievement expos, attracting more than 3000,<> guests, including experts, scholars and entrepreneurs, to provide suggestions and build consensus for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to accelerate the digital construction and promote the high-quality development of the Greater Bay Area.
Facilitate the flow of data across borders
For the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, how to accelerate the promotion of digital development? The key is to smooth the efficient flow channels of production factors such as data, talent, technology, and capital. "Facilitating cross-border data flow is a necessary measure to promote the high-quality development of the Greater Bay Area." In June this year, the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Cyberspace Administration of China signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Promoting Cross-border Data Flow in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to jointly promote the cross-border data flow in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, providing a convenient channel for the orderly and safe flow of important data from the Mainland to Hong Kong.
Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry of the Hong Kong SAR Government, revealed that Hong Kong is cooperating with Guangdong to simplify the compliance arrangements for the flow of mainland personal data to Hong Kong in the Greater Bay Area by the end of the year, so as to promote the development of the digital economy and smart city in the Greater Bay Area.
Zheng Yongnian, chairman of the Guangzhou Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute, believes that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have their own advantages and have a good foundation for the development of the digital economy. ”
"The governments of the three regions need to strengthen policy coordination, build a digital governance system through the top-level design of policies, and formulate common norms and standards. Strengthen technical cooperation and R&D, introduce data talents, and provide more accurate talent policies; Strengthen data security and risk management, and promote data sharing and trust building. Feng Wentao, chairman of Macau Rongguan Investment Technology Co., Ltd., suggested.
Leading enterprises are actively arranged
At the forum, PwC, an accounting firm, released the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Development Report 2023". According to the report, in 2022, the added value of Guangdong's digital economy reached 6.4 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for six consecutive years, and the scale of Hong Kong's digital economy exceeded HK$6 billion. PwC China Regional Economy and Southern Market Leader Zhang Lijun said that the development of the digital economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a solid foundation, and with the development of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone in the Loop pressing the "acceleration button", a new wave of technology and new industrialization will sweep through the Greater Bay Area on a larger scale and at a deeper level, and innovative technologies and innovation clusters will continue to emerge and proliferate.
In order to promote the digitalization process of the Bay Area and seize the "new track" of the digital economy, leading enterprises have actively deployed. "Digital-real integration" and "empowering industry" have become high-frequency words in this forum. "We have launched more than 130 industrial scenarios covering industry, energy, transportation, government affairs, exhibitions, etc., and provided solutions for more than 400 industries." Yang Chen, vice president of Tencent Cloud and president of Tencent Government Affairs, said.
Wang Shuai, vice president of Lenovo Group, believes that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has created a good ecological environment for the rapid growth of intelligent technology enterprises, and more and more world-class technology companies will emerge here. "I am very much looking forward to the birth of technology giants such as OpenAI and Gemini in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and I believe that such a 'new force' will drive the development of a city and a Bay Area."
Zhang Xiaoguang, deputy general manager of China Unicom International Co., Ltd., said that computing power has become the core productivity of the development of the digital economy. "To accelerate the development of the digital economy with data as the key element, it is necessary to build a new data infrastructure that adapts to the characteristics of data elements, promotes the circulation and utilization of data, and gives full play to the value and utility of data." Zhang Xiaoguang said.
Build a high-quality living circle in the Bay Area
Ip Guiping, Vice President of City University of Macau, believes that achieving better connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area through digital development and making it easier for residents in the Greater Bay Area to enjoy the services of a digital "smart city" will help promote the flow of people and people-to-people bonds.
At present, the construction of the "Digital Bay Area" has taken the lead in making breakthroughs in the "cross-border communication" of government services in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the joint construction of smart city clusters, and the mutual recognition of digital identity authentication, and the sense of gain of residents in the Greater Bay Area has been continuously improved.
As one of the first achievements of Guangdong Province's implementation of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of the "Digital Bay Area", at the forum, the "Bay Affairs" mini program was simultaneously launched at the three ends of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, focusing on the scenarios and Xi of enterprises in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, such as travel, communication, payment, job hunting, elderly care, medical care, education, food, accommodation and tourism, etc., to provide senseless and convenient cross-border services, and to help "one platform to travel the Bay Area" with digitalization, and jointly build a high-quality living circle in the Greater Bay Area.
The first phase of the "Bay Affairs" mini program has a total of more than 9 services. For example, in terms of transportation services, the Bay Affairs Mini Program brings together two major scenarios: intra-city transportation and cross-border travel. Intra-city transportation QR code scanning travel covers 2+<> city buses and subways in the Bay Area, mainland residents can scan the QR code to take public transportation in Hong Kong and Macao, and cross-border transportation covers a variety of cross-border modes such as Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail, cross-border buses, ferries, etc., without currency exchange procedures.
Lin Zhilong, Director of the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Justice of the Macao SAR Government, said that in order to serve the construction of the Greater Bay Area, Macao and Guangdong have worked together to carry out a series of cooperation in government data exchange and joint construction of a smart Bay Area. In September this year, Macao added seven commonly used business counter appointment services at the Government Affairs Service Centre of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin under the "One Account Account" to facilitate residents to apply for government services on the spot. (People's Daily Overseas Edition)