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　　This year marks the fifth anniversary of the release and implementation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Over the past five years, the Greater Bay Area has developed rapidly. Regional development has become more coordinated, factors have flowed more smoothly, and innovation momentum has gradually emerged. The goal of building a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster is moving from blueprint to reality.

　　During the National Two Sessions, many NPC deputies and CPPCC members from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao were concerned about the development of the Greater Bay Area. They believed that the Greater Bay Area can be continuously improved in terms of regional integrated development and scientific and technological collaborative innovation to accelerate the development of new productive forces. , to promote high-quality development and Chinese-style modernization.

Accelerate the integration of the Bay Area

　　On March 1, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone was officially closed for operation.

Since then, goods, as well as personal luggage and delivery items entering Hengqin from Macao can be exempted from tax if they meet certain conditions.

"This provides convenience for Macao residents to travel to Hengqin to study, live, start a business, and find employment, and is conducive to accelerating the integration of Hengqin and Macao." said Wu Xiaoli, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Macao Federation of Neighborhood Associations.

　　How to extend Macao's social services to Hengqin and deepen the integration of Hengqin and Macao in the field of people's livelihood are issues that Wu Xiaoli is concerned about.

She suggested that under the mechanism of consultation, joint construction, co-management and sharing, a new pattern of social services and community governance in Qintao and Macau should be built, and the relevant mechanisms for participating in community governance and social services in the mainland should be improved; Many Macau social organizations have participated in the construction of Hengqin and the Greater Bay Area, and have supported Macau universities, middle schools, primary schools and kindergartens to open schools in Hengqin.

　　In the five years since the construction of the Greater Bay Area, transportation infrastructure has been continuously improved, customs clearance facilitation measures have been introduced one after another, and rules and mechanisms have been optimized and connected. Professionals from Hong Kong and Macao in various industries such as teachers, doctors, and lawyers have obtained mainland practice qualifications. Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao have jointly announced 110 "Bay Area Standards"... These all lay the foundation for the flow allocation of factors and regional integrated development in the Greater Bay Area.

　　Hu Jianjiang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and executive member of the Hong Kong Economic and Livelihood Alliance, saw that the Greater Bay Area has integrated nine cities in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong into a regional economy with large economic scale and rich resources, and the construction of the Greater Bay Area has further enhanced regional integration. level, promoting industrial cooperation and talent flow.

Based on the overall development of the Greater Bay Area, Hu Jianjiang suggested jointly building and co-governing smart cities, industrial brains and public data pools in the Bay Area to promote the interconnection of urban systems in the Greater Bay Area, improve local society and people's livelihood, and promote industrial and economic development.

　　"In recent years, Macao has been closely connected with mainland cities, and many Macao residents have gone to mainland cities to study and buy property." Zhang Zongzhen, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Executive Council of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, suggested using technology to facilitate customs clearance and further simplify Macao. Vehicle customs clearance procedures will be implemented to maximize the convenience of vehicle customs clearance for personnel from Qin, Macao, Hong Kong, Macao, and Macao and Zhuhai.

"The ideas for building Hengqin must be further opened up to achieve the integration of Hengqin that benchmarks Macau and is in line with international standards." Zhang Zongzhen said that in accordance with high-standard international economic and trade rules such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, cross-border services should be explored Trade list management will build Hengqin into a model room and demonstration area for institutional openness.

Leveraging advantages to achieve collaborative innovation

　　"Zhanjiang has an excellent port, Maoming has a complete petrochemical industry, Jiangmen has a new energy automobile industry and a dual-carbon laboratory, and Zhaoqing has a biomedical industry foundation." During the survey in western Guangdong, the complete industrial layout of the Greater Bay Area gave the country Ling Youshi, a representative of the National People's Congress and an honorary researcher at the Center for Contemporary Chinese Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was deeply impressed. "Hong Kong is also actively participating in the construction of the Bay Area. From biomedical technology to the International Court of Arbitration, Hong Kong's shadow can be seen."

　　According to Wu Yihuan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, the nine mainland cities in the Pearl River Delta have rich populations, industrial resources and huge market demand; Hong Kong and Macao have rich scientific and technological innovation resources, industrial capital advantages and mature overseas exchange platforms - —To build an international science and technology innovation center with global influence, the Greater Bay Area has natural advantages.

　　Zhou Bin, a deputy to the National People's Congress and chief engineer of the Guangdong Greater Bay Area Aerospace Information Research Institute, who has been in Guangzhou for five years, has witnessed the development and progress of scientific and technological innovation in the Greater Bay Area.

　　With the construction of major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and Hetao, as well as the successive launch of the three major science cities of Guangming, Songshan Lake, and Nansha, scientific and technological innovation in the Greater Bay Area has pressed the "accelerator button."

Today, the Greater Bay Area has more than 60,000 national high-tech enterprises, many of the world's top 50 universities, 9 major national science and technology infrastructures and 50 national key laboratories.

　　In the past year, Zhou Bin's research institution has made certain technological breakthroughs in the terahertz field.

"The development of new productive forces is inseparable from technological innovation and technological empowerment." Zhou Bin suggested accelerating the construction of the commercial aerospace industry chain in the Greater Bay Area and accelerating the deployment of low-orbit commercial satellite Internet covering the Greater Bay Area to serve the rapid economic development of the Greater Bay Area.

　　Wu Yihuan further suggested to support the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in building a future industrial innovation network and improve corresponding policy support and institutional guarantees; build a collaborative innovation platform for real estate, academic and research funding in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and coordinate and guarantee innovation in funds, data, R&D, projects, markets, etc. cross-border flow of elements; strengthen the construction of university networks in the Greater Bay Area, support universities to jointly build advantageous disciplines, laboratories and research centers, share subject resources and research facilities; and create a sustainable base for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

(Reporters Zhang Wenxiao, Gong Liang, Li Ruichen, Wu Chunyan, Tang Yige) (Source: Guangming Daily)