China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Zeng Yue) Talking about the development of Hong Kong's digital economy, Yang Debin, a representative of the National People's Congress and a member of the Digital Economy Development Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government, suggested during an interview during the National Two Sessions that we should learn from the Eastern Digital and Western Counting and pilot " "Hong Kong counts with the Mainland" to promote the linkage of computing power between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
This year's government work report proposed to further promote the innovative development of the digital economy when deploying to accelerate the development of new productive forces.
Yang Debin said that data centers are the infrastructure for the development of the digital economy. "Hong Kong counts with mainland China" can alleviate the adverse impact of high land and electricity prices on the construction of data centers in Hong Kong and achieve large-scale development of data centers.
On March 8, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
The picture shows Yang Debin, deputy to the National People's Congress of Hong Kong, being interviewed by the media after the meeting.
Photo by China News Service reporter Jiang Qiming
The "Shenzhen Park Development Plan of the Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone" issued in 2023 clarifies that by 2025, the Shenzhen Park supervision model will be mature and the Hong Kong Park will basically achieve smooth flow of factors, integrated innovation chains, and smooth personnel exchanges; by 2035 In 2017, innovation elements flowed freely and orderly across borders.
Yang Debin emphasized that Hong Kong’s development of digital industry must be deeply linked with Shenzhen.
He suggested rationalizing the flow of people, logistics, capital and information in the "one district and two parks" in the Loop, setting up a white list of technology companies and scientific researchers, establishing a dual-currency investment venture fund and a data zone, and promoting the organic cooperation between the two places to develop key technologies. .
Li Huiqiong, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a member of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council, suggested that the central government introduce more supportive policies to promote the development of the Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, and allow mainland scientific research and clinical trials to collect samples and related data across the border while ensuring good risk management. Circulation enables data exchange between the mainland, Hong Kong and other regions.
Yang Debin suggested that starting from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, based on the implementation of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Mainland, Hong Kong) Standard Contract for Cross-border Flow of Personal Information", add certification mechanisms and the formulation of negative lists, and at the same time benchmark international certifications mechanism to attract international companies to conduct cross-border data processing in Hong Kong and help Hong Kong become an international data port.
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