The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Greater Bay Area Office that the total economic volume of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will exceed 14 trillion yuan in 2023. With less than 0.6% of the country’s land area, it will create 1/9 of the country’s total economic volume, and its comprehensive strength will be once again Go up the steps.
Zhu Wei, executive deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Greater Bay Area Office, said that the total economic output of the Greater Bay Area in 2018 was 10.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.2 trillion yuan in five years. With the in-depth implementation of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan", especially since 2023, focusing on the new positioning of "one point, two places", Guangdong has joined hands with Hong Kong and Macao to accelerate the construction of a world-class Greater Bay Area and the best-developed bay area. The construction results obvious.
Scientific and technological innovation capabilities continue to improve. The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, comprehensive national science center, and high-level talent highland has been comprehensively advanced, and "national treasures" such as Pengcheng Laboratory and Guangzhou Laboratory have been laid out one after another. The Greater Bay Area already has more than 75,000 national-level high-tech companies, including a number of technology leaders such as Huawei, Tencent, BYD, Midea, and Gree. The "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" technology cluster has ranked second in the world for four consecutive years.
The internal and external communication network has been accelerated and improved. The "Greater Bay Area on Track" has become more complete. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been completed and put into operation, and one-hour connectivity between major cities in the Greater Bay Area has basically been achieved. The annual passenger throughput capacity of the Greater Bay Area airport group exceeds 280 million, and the annual container throughput capacity of the port group exceeds 85 million TEUs. The route network covers major cities around the world and major trade ports in the world.
The construction of major cooperation platforms was accelerated. Hengqin officially closed its customs operations on March 1 this year. Qianhai promulgated the country's first investor protection regulations and actively promoted cooperation with Hong Kong in modern service industries such as finance and law; Nansha has established three major exchanges for futures, shipping, and data, and the "Going Global" comprehensive service base for Chinese enterprises has been inaugurated; Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong scientific and technological innovation cooperation has gained momentum.
The level of market integration is gradually improving. A number of landmark projects such as the "Hong Kong and Macao Medical Device Connect", "Bay Area Social Security Connect", "Cross-border Financial Management Connect" and the "Cross-border Access" for government services have been implemented. Since the implementation of the "Macau Cars Going North" and "Hong Kong Cars Going North" policies, the number of Hong Kong and Macao single-plate vehicles entering and exiting through the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has exceeded 2 million. The three places jointly announced a total of 183 "Bay Area Standards" covering food, traditional Chinese medicine, elderly care and other fields. (CCTV News Client)