The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge connects three places with one bridge. Photo by Qian Wenpan
■Seize the historical opportunity and make new innovations
Editor's Note
Promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, supporting Shenzhen in building a pioneering demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics, building the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone, and promoting the development and opening up of Qianhai are all major national strategies and major decisions personally planned, personally deployed and personally promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and are also major historical opportunities for Guangdong in the new development stage. In recent years, Guangdong has used the strength of the whole province to promote the construction of the "double zone" and the construction of the two cooperation zones in Hengqin and Qianhai, and strive to turn the grand blueprint drawn up by the general secretary and the party Central Committee into a beautiful reality. From now on, Nanfang Daily has launched a series of reports on "Seizing Historical Opportunities and Re-Innovating brilliantly", comprehensively reviewing and presenting the comprehensive results of Guangdong's implementation of the strategic intentions of the general secretary and the party Central Committee in recent years, and vigorously promoting the implementation of the national strategy. Please note.
On October 19, with the official release of the overall development plan of Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City in the next 15 years, as one of the pilot launch areas of the comprehensive national science center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the development blueprint of Songshan Lake Science City was drawn and the construction was accelerated.
New progress has been made every month, and new breakthroughs have been made every year. Since the CPC Central Committee and the State Council officially issued the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning Outline") on February 18, 2019, in accordance with the blueprint drawn up by the General Secretary and the CPC Central Committee, the whole province has adhered to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as the "program" for Guangdong's reform and opening up in the new era, resolutely assumed important responsibilities, made real efforts, and sought great efforts, successively held six provincial leading group meetings on promoting the construction of the Greater Bay Area, specially organized and convened the plenary session of the provincial party committee for deployment, and built a near, central, and small number of provinces. The implementation system combined with long-term cooperation will promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area with the strength of the whole province.
Break the waves and move forward steadily. Guangdong has joined hands with Hong Kong and Macao to accelerate the realization of hard connectivity, soft connectivity, smart connectivity, enterprise connectivity and heart connectivity in the three places, and accelerate towards the goal of a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster.
The innovation network of the Greater Bay Area has initially taken shape
In Dashishan, Jinji Town, Kaiping, Jiangmen, the construction of a national large scientific device located 700 meters underground, the Jiangmen Neutrino Experimental Station, is progressing smoothly. Li Xiaonan, a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Kaiping Neutrino Research Center, is full of expectations for the completion and commissioning of the experimental station: "In many unknown fields, it may bring us surprises! ”
Whether the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can match the world-class bay area, scientific and technological innovation is an important evaluation indicator. The Outline Plan proposes to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into an "international science and technology innovation center with global influence", after which Guangdong has accelerated the gathering of world-class scientific and technological infrastructure clusters, strengthened basic research and coordinated research on key core technologies, and gradually built "four beams and eight pillars".
From the neutrino experimental station to the spallation neutron source phase II, from the human cell lineage to the cold spring ecosystem, in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a large number of scientific and technological infrastructures known as the "heavy weapons of the country" are stepping up construction. It is expected that after 5 years, more than 15 large scientific devices will be completed and operated in Guangdong, attracting more than 10,000 high-level talents.
The rising cluster of large scientific devices provides important support for basic research in the Greater Bay Area to create an original source of innovation. The landing of a national and provincial strategic innovation platform provides a broad stage for guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao collaborative innovation.
"At present, Pengcheng Laboratory has established good cooperative relations with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong and other universities." Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of pengcheng laboratory, believes that with the help of cooperation and sharing of strategic innovation platforms, the mainland and Hong Kong have formed complementary advantages in scientific research, which is more conducive to the output of innovative achievements.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory jointly built by the three places is an important carrier of the in-depth linkage of innovation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in recent years.
In December 2019, the first batch of 10 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories were officially awarded, laying out key areas of industrial development in the Greater Bay Area such as artificial intelligence, new materials and advanced manufacturing, and jointly built by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao or universities, scientific research institutions, enterprises and other legal entities with cooperation bases in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Guangdong.
"The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory is a new attempt. The members are all scientific and technological workers who have been engaged in biotechnology and health research for a long time in the three places, which is conducive to integrating the advantages of the team and strengthening forward-looking basic research. Guan Yi, director of the Joint Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Guangdong and Hong Kong, said.
So far, 20 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories have started construction. In the recently released "14th Five-Year Plan" for scientific and technological innovation, Guangdong proposed to build about 40 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratories by 2025.
The unprecedented close cooperation in science and technology innovation has made the innovation elements flow more smoothly in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and accelerated the realization of "money transit, people exchanges, and tax balance".
On July 30, 2019, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology successfully disbursed 3,169,600 yuan of financial funds for provincial-level scientific research projects undertaken by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which was the first provincial-level scientific research fund successfully allocated through transit. Up to now, the province's financial scientific research funds have directly allocated more than 100 million yuan.
High-frequency joint research has spawned more and more cutting-edge and basic scientific research results in the Greater Bay Area. In order to promote the transformation of scientific research achievements out of the laboratory and in the front line of the industry, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has explored the formation of a coordinated development model for the science and technology industry of "Hong Kong and Macao universities - Hong Kong and Macao scientific research achievements - Pearl River Delta transformation", and major scientific research achievements of Hong Kong and Macao such as DJI unmanned aerial vehicles and Yunzhou unmanned ships have been smoothly transformed and landed in the Pearl River Delta.
In the first half of this year, the Construction of the National Technology Innovation Center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was launched, and the transformation mechanism of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao became smoother. "The center will focus on the major needs of the Greater Bay Area, inject fresh impetus into the cultivation and development of strategic pillar industries and strategic emerging industries in the province, and create a strategic node of the national technological innovation system." Gong Guoping, director of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, said.
With the connectivity of scientific and technological facilities, the smooth flow of scientific and technological elements, and the integration of scientific and technological innovation chains, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has initially formed an innovation network and accelerated the construction of a global highland of scientific and technological innovation and an important source of emerging industries.
Large platforms and large projects promote large industries
In hengqin and Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Valley, young people from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao often conduct project roadshows in cafes, and the language of communication is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, which has become a hot spot for young people in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Across the Pearl River estuary, In Qianhai, Shenzhen, a network technology company co-founded by entrepreneurial youth Liu Chaofeng and friends has gone through 7 years and occupied a place in the field of digital payment. "Shenzhen is my favorite city and where my dreams began." Liu Chaofeng said.
About 60 kilometers to the northwest, Nansha, Guangzhou, a place called "Xiangjiang Unicorn Ranch", attracted more than 100 science and technology enterprises to settle in, with a cumulative total valuation of more than 60 billion yuan: Yuncong Technology, Xiaoma Zhixing, and Hechuang Automobile have successively settled in, making it gradually become an artificial intelligence headquarters agglomeration area.
Not only in the free trade zone, looking around the Greater Bay Area, the cooperation and development platform of the three places has blossomed everywhere. Foshan Sanlong Bay, Huya global R & D headquarters, Han's robots and a number of major projects have settled; Dongguan Marina Bay, artificial intelligence industry chain and health high-end medical industry project system prototype appeared; Zhongshan Cuiheng New Area, biomedicine, high-end equipment, high-end service industry and other multi-point force, emerging industries booming.
Since the release of the Outline Plan, with the construction of major cooperation platforms as the starting point, Guangdong has accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system in the Greater Bay Area, continuously promoted the upgrading of the industrial base and the modernization of the industrial chain supply chain, and accelerated the construction of an internationally competitive advanced manufacturing base.
According to the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list, 25 Greater Bay Area companies, including Huawei, Tencent and Midea, are on the list, an increase of 8 over 2017.
Domestic and foreign enterprises voted with their feet and firmly optimistic about the broad prospects of the Greater Bay Area.
"I hope to be able to work with customers and partners to expand the industrial space and create a smart Greater Bay Area." Zhou Jianjun, Vice President of Huawei China, is full of expectations for the future.
"We hope to use advanced technology to produce sustainable high-performance products and actively participate in the development of China's manufacturing industry." Wan Lifan, chairman of ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co., Ltd., is full of confidence that the Huizhou ethylene project, which was invested by the company last year with an investment of about US$10 billion, was built in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Major projects, such as surging super engines, provide strong momentum for accelerating the transformation and upgrading of advantageous industries in the Greater Bay Area.
A month ago, at the project site of Shenzhen Guangming Gas Turbine Power Base, Guangdong held a concentrated start-up of major projects in the third quarter of this year. After the Guangming Gas Turbine Power Base Project is put into operation, it will provide better power guarantee for key areas in the Greater Bay Area such as Shenzhen Guangming Science City and Qianhai.
Read the "general word recipe" well and create the "dividend" of the system
"Brush documents, press fingerprints, customs clearance in seconds", a major cross-border people's livelihood project opened not long ago - Guangdong-Macao-New Zealand Channel (Qingmao Port), innovatively adopts the customs clearance mode of "cooperative inspection, one-time release", and passengers can complete customs clearance within 20 seconds at the earliest.
The interconnection between Guangdong and Macao has made the flow of resource elements more rapid than ever.
Within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, there are two systems, three currencies and three independent customs zones. These unique institutional arrangements, on the one hand, allow the three places to give full play to their respective strengths and achieve complementary advantages; on the other hand, they also bring practical difficulties in the flow of resource elements.
Open up the construction situation in the Bay Area, and first promote the "tongzi recipe". Guangdong takes the in-depth implementation of the "Bay Area Pass" project as the starting point, the infrastructure is "hard connected", and the rule mechanism is "soft connection". A number of major interconnection projects have been accelerated to speed up construction, and a number of major institutional mechanism innovation and reform have been continuously promoted, promoting the accelerated circulation of people, logistics, capital and information, and bringing new opportunities for the coordinated development of the three places.
In recent years, the high-speed rail mileage of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has exceeded 1,200 kilometers, especially with the completion and opening of landmark projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway, it takes only 30 minutes to drive from Hong Kong to Zhuhai and Macao, and the travel between Hong Kong and Guangzhou is shortened to less than 1 hour, making it more convenient to travel between the three places.
On both sides of the Pearl River Estuary, a world-class airport cluster and port cluster have risen, with the passenger throughput capacity of the airport in the Greater Bay Area exceeding 200 million passengers and the port container throughput exceeding 80 million TEUs, ranking first in the world's four major bay areas.
Construct high-standard rule convergence and mechanism docking, accelerate the coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area at a deeper level, and further enhance the level of market integration in the three places.
Guangdong regards the convergence of rules as the key to breaking down barriers and obstacles, actively explores "one thing and three places, one policy and three places, one rule and three places", and strives to turn the difference in the system into the benefit of the system.
With the issuance and implementation of the implementation plan for promoting the evaluation of professional titles and the recognition of vocational qualifications in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the three places have promoted the "one-test multi-certificate" vocational skills appraisal in 8 professional fields such as architects, physicians, teachers and tour guides.
"In less than a year, more than 100 Hong Kong and Macao professionals and dozens of Hong Kong and Macao professional enterprises have filed and practiced in Hengqin New Area." Yan Shu, general manager of Huazhong Lianchuang Design Consultant (Hengqin) Co., Ltd., deeply appreciates the talent blowout brought about by the favorable policies.
This reform has benefited more than 2,000 Hong Kong and Macao professionals who have opened a door to a broad market by obtaining mainland registration qualifications.
At the same time, the docking of business environment rules between the three places has also made new breakthroughs, exploring the implementation of a shorter negative list for Hong Kong and Macao under the CEPA framework, and basically realizing the liberalization of trade in services with Hong Kong and Macao; relying on the "digital government" platform, the Pearl River Delta has realized the commercial registration of Hong Kong and Macao enterprises "One Netcom Office". In the past three years, Guangdong has introduced more than 50,000 Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises, and the actual utilization of Hong Kong and Macao funds is more than 340 billion yuan.
The converging living and working environment attracts more Young People from Hong Kong and Macao to study, work and live in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area. To capture this new trend, Guangdong has accelerated the construction of the "1+12+N" incubation platform carrier layout, introduced Hong Kong and Macao professional incubation institutions and social groups to provide special services, and created a youth innovation and entrepreneurship paradise. Relying on these entrepreneurial bases throughout the province, nearly 600 Hong Kong and Macao youth entrepreneurial teams and more than 4,000 people have gone to Guangdong to pursue their dreams.
Soft and hard connectivity accelerates the connection between people and people, and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao draw larger concentric circles.
First-line cases
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect" was launched for sale
Hundreds of Residents of the Greater Bay Area Drink "Head Soup"
"I have always hoped to participate in the investment in the mainland financial market and share the dividends of the mainland's economic growth, and when I learned of the release of the 'Cross-border Wealth Management Pass', I immediately contacted the bank for consultation." On October 19, Liu Zhilong, vice president of the Macao Youth Federation and chairman of the Qin'ao Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Association, was the first customer of the "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the first financial interconnection mechanism set up for individual investors, and became the first customer of ICBC Hengqin Branch to handle the "Northbound Pass" business.
The "Cross-border Wealth Management Connect" is divided into "Northbound Connect" and "Southbound Connect", and with the help of this special channel, Hong Kong and Macao investors and mainland investors in the Greater Bay Area can purchase eligible investment products sold by each other's banks across borders through local banks. This is another financial innovation measure of the central government to support the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On that day, there were hundreds of residents of the Greater Bay Area who drank "head soup" with Liu Zhilong. According to the data, on October 19 alone, the mainland sales bank handled 180 remittances of "Northbound Connect" investment funds for Hong Kong and Macao investors, with an amount of 15.387 million yuan. The Mainland Cooperative Bank, in conjunction with the Hong Kong and Macao Sales Bank, handled 128 remittances of "Southbound Connect" investment funds for mainland investors in the Greater Bay Area, amounting to 17.733 million yuan.
"The launch of the 'Cross-border Wealth Management Connect' will not only help residents in the Greater Bay Area to allocate household assets more flexibly, but also help financial institutions in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to expand their business, deepen cooperation, and accelerate the regional economic integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao." Su Yun, vice president of the Guangzhou branch of the People's Bank of China, said.
In the context of China's expansion of two-way financial opening-up, the "cross-border wealth management connect" has a more far-reaching strategic significance - to open up a new path for the internationalization of the renminbi. In the view of Yi Xingjian, vice president of Guangdong University of Finance, the "closed-loop capital pipeline", "qualified pilot bank", "qualified investor threshold" and "product risk restriction" of the "cross-border wealth management pass" reflect the intention of the pilot, "so that the cross-border flow of capital risks can be controlled, investor risks can be controlled, and in order to promote deeper interconnection of the financial market in the Greater Bay Area, further open up capital projects, and accumulate richer preliminary experience".
Expert opinion
Zhang Yansheng, Chief Researcher of China Center for International Economic Exchanges:
The Greater Bay Area explores ways for the innovation of national institutional mechanisms
"The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made great achievements in terms of institutional mechanisms and innovative development, and the next step is to strengthen the docking of mechanisms to the greatest extent possible and create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international business environment." Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said in an exclusive interview with Nanfang Daily that Guangdong should continue to deepen reform, strive to break through the obstacles of administrative divisions in the Greater Bay Area to the flow of market factors, create a better investment environment, market environment and innovation environment with all-round international cooperation, and comprehensively promote high-quality development.
Talk about achievements
Radiation drives the high-quality development of the surrounding areas
Nanfang Daily: How to evaluate the construction effectiveness of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in recent years?
Zhang Yansheng: I think the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made great achievements in institutional mechanisms and innovative development in recent years, which are mainly reflected in the following three aspects.
First of all, useful explorations have been made in promoting high-quality development, especially the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. On the one hand, the institutional mechanisms of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have accelerated the docking and the flow of elements; on the other hand, Guangdong has proposed the construction of five major metropolitan areas, taking the Guangzhou Metropolitan Circle as an example, covering not only Guangzhou, Foshan and Zhaoqing in the Pearl River Delta, but also Qingyuan, Yunfu and Shaoguan in the northern ecological development zone, which plays an important role in realizing the coordinated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area itself and radiating the surrounding areas.
Second, the recent linkage development of Shenzhen and Hong Kong has attracted strong attention, the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone has comprehensively deepened reform and opening up, hong Kong proposed to build a "northern metropolitan area", and the economic and social exchanges between the two major cities will be closer in the future, which is a new vivid practice of "one country, two systems".
Third, the expansion of the Qianhai Area and the "upgrading" of Hengqin have made major breakthroughs in the docking of institutional mechanisms and the deepening of reform. In the process of achieving high-quality development, it is difficult to take into account the three goals of innovation, green and coordinated development, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made a series of important explorations in coordinating the three, especially in promoting the quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development, achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, and promoting common prosperity.
Talk about the future
Gather global talents with a high level of openness
Nanfang Daily: In the new journey, how can the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area better help comprehensively deepen reform and opening up and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern?
Zhang Yansheng: Next, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should maximize the strengthening of mechanism docking between the three places and jointly create a convergent market-oriented, rule-of-law and international business environment, which is of great exemplary significance for exploring a high-standard market economic system with Chinese characteristics and a new system of a higher-level open economy.
From the city level, Shenzhen and other cities are deeply integrated into the international economic cycle, in recent years, they have continuously promoted the industrial chain to move towards the middle and high-end, accelerated innovation-driven, and the future focus should be on better promoting transformation and upgrading; Guangzhou and other cities have accumulated deep accumulation in docking the domestic cycle, and on the one hand, they must improve the level of economic internationalization in the future, and on the other hand, they must work together to become an important node of the domestic cycle.
Nanfang Daily: What suggestions do you have for Guangdong to further promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area?
Zhang Yansheng: Based on the new stage of development, Guangdong's first priority is to promote economic development more driven by technology and innovation, so that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will become a highland of scientific and technological innovation. Actively explore the low-carbon transformation of high-energy-consuming industries, and explore a new model of efficient and fair green development for the whole country and even the world. At the same time, efforts should be made to promote coordinated development and narrow the development gap between urban and rural areas. Finally, it is necessary to strengthen opening up and cooperation, strengthen the overall coordination of the five major metropolitan areas, and place more emphasis on the formation of synergy between the government, the market and society to jointly promote high-quality regional development.
Looking forward to the future, we should promote the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to radiate at the same time to drive Guangdong East Guangdong West Guangdong North to walk in the forefront of China's high-quality development, further enhance the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, drive the whole country to a higher level of opening up, and play a more important role in the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
To achieve this goal, Guangdong not only requires Guangdong to accelerate the attraction of world-class talents, build a world-class innovation chain, accelerate the realization of key breakthroughs in major scientific research bottlenecks, but also pay attention to the development of high-end productive service industries such as finance.
Written by: Southern Daily reporter Li Fengxiang Bian Delong He Liyuan Wang Biao Tang Liuwen Chen Ying Ma Fang Liang Han
Coordinator: Wu Zhe Luo Xiaohua