Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center: "Fusion" inspires surging scientific and technological innovation power

　　◎Our reporter Ye Qing and Luo Yunpeng

　　Long Yuemei

　　"In February 2019, the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" was officially released. In April, I signed a contract with the Fok Ying-tung Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Fok Ying-tung Research Institute) and decided to come to Nansha, Guangzhou, to study in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Work in the Greater Bay Area." Zhu Longqian, manager of the Building Energy Research Center of the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute, told reporters recently.

　　After receiving his doctorate from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhu Longqian stayed at the school to work.

"I participated in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Million Dollar Prize (International) Entrepreneurship Competition Guangzhou Division. After winning the prize, I hope to transfer the technology of the transformation laboratory." Zhu Longqian said that the release of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" prompted He made up his mind to come to Nansha, Guangzhou to pursue his dream.

　　The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" proposes to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into an "international science and technology innovation center with global influence."

The release of the outline promoted the flow and integration of innovative elements and triggered a "fusion" of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

Over the past five years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made steady progress, building a "two points and two corridors" scientific and technological innovation space layout, making the scientific and technological innovation ecosystem more open, with frequent exchanges and cooperation among scientific researchers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" science and technology cluster in Ranked second in the Global Innovation Index for four consecutive years.

　　Accelerate the construction of scientific and technological infrastructure

　　Building an international science and technology innovation center is a major strategic positioning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

As global science and technology competition intensifies, strengthening basic research and cutting-edge research is particularly important for the construction of an international science and technology innovation center.

In order to enhance its original innovation capabilities, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area actively promotes the construction of strategic scientific and technological capabilities and plans to build 9 major national scientific and technological infrastructures, prompting the Pengcheng Laboratory and Guangzhou Laboratory to be launched and fully operational.

World-class major science and technology infrastructure clusters have emerged in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Here, all technical needs can be met.

　　In Guangzhou, the Aviation Tire Science Center has completed the entire chain of aviation tire localization technology and achieved original technological breakthroughs in bionic synthetic rubber and digital tire industry software.

"The Aviation Tire Science Center has been initially completed. This year we will not only accelerate the gathering of talents, but also increase investment in infrastructure." said Wang Jie, deputy director of the Huangpu Materials Research Institute in the Guangdong Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

　　In Dongguan, Professor Huang Mingxin of the University of Hong Kong has benefited a lot from the commissioning of the China Spallation Neutron Source.

"It's so convenient to do experiments at your doorstep!" Huang Mingxin said.

Using the universal powder diffraction spectrometer of the China Spallation Neutron Source, Huang Mingxin's team discovered the microscopic principles of "super steel" with high strength and good toughness. The research paper has been published twice in Science.

　　In Shenzhen, Guangming Science City currently has 24 major scientific and technological innovation carriers.

In November 2023, two large scientific facilities, the major scientific and technological infrastructure for brain analysis and brain simulation and the major scientific and technological infrastructure for synthetic biology research, will be officially put into use.

　　Relying on the major scientific and technological infrastructure for synthetic biology research, Li Hanjie's team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen University of Technology (in preparation) and other units have achieved the major achievement of "mapping the development of the human immune system."

　　Through these large scientific devices and experimental platforms, scientists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao can carry out research "at their doorstep".

More importantly, relying on the continuously improving innovation capabilities, the industrial competitiveness of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is also constantly improving.

　　Facilitate the cross-border flow of innovation elements

　　The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area includes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and nine Pearl River Delta cities including Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong.

Under the "two systems", how can Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao turn "system differences" into "system advantages"?

The answer given by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is to continue to deepen the connection of scientific and technological innovation rules and mechanisms between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and actively promote the transit of money, people, tax balance, and logistics.

　　In February 2018, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Several Provisions on Encouraging Higher Education Institutions and Scientific Research Institutions in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region to participate in the organization and implementation of central fiscal science and technology plans (special projects, funds, etc.) (for trial implementation)", which will Scientific researchers and institutions from Hong Kong and Macao are included in the central government’s fiscal science and technology plans.

　　"Opening up the 'fund crossing' channel has greatly facilitated Hong Kong's science and technology workers to participate in mainland science and technology projects." said Qian Peiyuan, director of the Hong Kong branch of the Guangzhou Marine Laboratory and founding director of the Department of Marine Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

His laboratory received the largest one-time grant in the science and technology exchange process between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

　　Applications for major projects in Guangdong are open to Hong Kong and Macao scientific research institutions, and a collaborative development model of the science and technology industry of "Hong Kong and Macao universities - Hong Kong and Macao scientific research results - transformation in the Pearl River Delta" has gradually taken shape.

　　"Now the types of scientific research cooperation projects between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are slowly increasing." Zhu Longqian said happily, "Take my Fok Ying Tung Research Institute as an example. We have introduced more than 100 professors from Hong Kong and Macao. These professors go to the mainland to undertake responsibilities The frequency of projects has become higher, and the focus of scientific research has gradually shifted to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."

　　He also mentioned that the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau took the lead in piloting the reform of cross-border free flow of scientific research materials, which has cleared the cross-border blockage of scientific research materials.

　　In July last year, the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau and five departments jointly issued the first cross-border positive list of scientific research materials in Guangzhou, and introduced a series of customs clearance facilitation measures with Guangzhou Laboratory and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as pilot projects.

　　If rules are connected, people, things, and innovation elements will be connected.

As blockades in the cross-border flow of innovative elements continue to be cleared, the coordinated innovation energy of science and technology in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao is being released at an accelerated pace.

　　Expand the scale of collaborative innovation platform

　　When Gao Yibo from Hong Kong graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2017, he faced two options: stay in school and work, or start a business in Shenzhen.

After careful consideration, he chose the latter.

　　Shenzhen Shangwei Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. founded by Gao Yibo focuses on the development of semiconductor microfluidic biochips and point-of-care molecular in vitro diagnostic technology.

With the continuous advancement of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Gao Yibo's company has also grown into a national high-tech enterprise.

　　In 2020, after learning in detail about the industrial space, development prospects, and policy support of the Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Loop), he moved his company to the cooperation zone.

"We're right. The Loop Cooperation Zone is a blessed place for us to start a business. We hope to use this blessed land to realize our own innovation and entrepreneurial value." Gao Yibo said, "Nowadays, more and more young people in Hong Kong regard the Loop as a blessed place. The first stop for innovation and entrepreneurship.”

　　"In Shenzhen, close to Hong Kong", this is the unique geographical advantage of the Lantao Cooperation Zone.

At present, the Shenzhen Park of the Loop Cooperation Zone has gathered more than 160 high-end scientific research institutions and projects, including 7 R&D centers of Fortune 500 companies, 10 national-level major scientific research platforms, and 10 scientific research projects of Hong Kong universities. It is becoming a close cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in science and technology. One of the areas with the highest degree of integration and the strongest degree of integration.

　　Over the years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has continued to optimize the regional layout of international science and technology innovation centers, relying on major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and Hetao to deepen cooperation in science and technology innovation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao.

　　"After several years of technology accumulation and market research, we have formed our own technology and plan to put the product on the market this year. We are very optimistic about the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market." Zhu Longqian is full of confidence.

　　Entering 2024, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center is making frequent moves.

The Hetao International Industry and Standards Organization Gathering Area was officially unveiled; the list of the third batch of 11 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories was released, bringing the total number of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories to 31, and the scale of the collaborative innovation platform among the three places continues to expand; starting from March 1, The Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone has officially implemented separate line management and closed customs operations.

　　According to reports, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will deepen scientific research collaboration between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, optimize the implementation of the Guangdong-Hong Kong and Guangdong-Macao scientific and technological innovation joint funding plan, actively explore joint reviews, and further strengthen Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao scientific and technological cooperation, with Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and Hetao and other major cooperation platforms as fulcrums to link global innovation resources.

　　Gong Guoping, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that in the next step, we will accelerate the construction of a full-process innovation chain, solidly promote the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a higher-level science and technology innovation province, and insist on placing innovation in enterprises, In terms of industry and development, we should better leverage the role of scientific and technological innovation in leading the construction of a modern industrial system, accelerate the formation of new productive forces, and create a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence.