Share opportunities and create a better future

Source: Xinhua News Agency

The picture shows Shenzhen Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Factory. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian

"I am fortunate to have come to Shenzhen to work through the Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Program." Li Cheuk-hee, a 26-year-old Young Man from Hong Kong, looks back on 2021 that has just passed.

A native of Hong Kong, Lee cheuk-hee said that his past ties with the mainland have been basically "dragonfly-dotted' travels." During his postgraduate studies in the UK, he slowly became interested in the mainland in his exchanges with mainland students. "The mainland has developed very well in recent years, and I think young people will have more development opportunities in the Greater Bay Area."

In September last year, Li Joined PwC through the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme and came to Shenzhen to engage in consulting work. His daily job is to help domestic and foreign companies understand each other's needs, provide feasible solutions to meet each other's compliance requirements, and promote business cooperation.

"Consulting is a high-end service industry, which is Hong Kong's dominant industry and one of the directions that Shenzhen is now vigorously developing." Li Zhuoxi said, "When you come to Shenzhen to work, you can contact many mainland enterprises and increase your personal experience. ”

At the beginning of last year, the Hong Kong SAR Government announced the Youth Employment Scheme for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Graduates of the University of Hong Kong who are employed through the Employment Scheme will be stationed to work in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area and will receive a monthly subsidy of HK$10,000 for a maximum period of 18 months.

Shenzhen encourages employers to implement the Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme, and Hong Kong youth who are employed in Shenzhen can enjoy a living allowance of RMB 1,000 per person per month. So far, about 530 young people in Hong Kong have come to shenzhen through the scheme.

Like Li Zhuoxi, Wang Zhaocong, a young Hong Kong youth who just completed his university studies in 2021, also joined Tencent through the Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Program and came to Shenzhen to work, responsible for the promotion of WeChat Pay in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Although he has only been working for 3 months, Wang Zhaocong feels that he has learned a lot of new things.

"My idea is simple, go wherever you have the opportunity." Wang Zhaocong said, "Finance has always been Hong Kong's strength, and technology is Shenzhen's strength. The work I'm doing now is related to finance, and it's also related to technology, which can expand my future career options. ”

Shenzhen has built 10 municipal Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases, provided entrepreneurship support subsidies and entrepreneurial guarantee loans to Hong Kong and Macao residents, continued to promote the convergence of rules in practice and social security system, and provided a series of convenient conditions for the development of Hong Kong and Macao youth. In order to enrich the lives of young people in Hong Kong and Macao, Shenzhen also organizes exchange activities to build a platform for Hong Kong and Macao youth to expand their circle of friends.

Under a series of measures, more and more Hong Kong youth are developing in the north. Data from the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau shows that the number of Hong Kong residents participating in the pension insurance of enterprise employees in Shenzhen has increased year by year.

As young people from Hong Kong and Macao continue to pour into the Greater Bay Area, mainland cities are also actively exploring new models of in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao. The "Overall Plan for the Construction of hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone" and the "Plan for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening Up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone" released in September 2021 inject new impetus, provide new space and create new opportunities for the long-term development of Hong Kong and Macao.

In order to provide support for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to pursue their dreams in the north, Qianhai has built platforms such as the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Factory, with an entrepreneurial space of 120,000 square meters. Today, DreamWorks has incubated a total of 549 entrepreneurial teams, including 286 teams from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Qianhai enterprises attracted a total of 3,652 Hong Kong talents.

"For hong Kong youth, Qianhai is a window into high-tech industries." "Post-95s," said Luo Yuanli, a Hong Kong youth and assistant to the president of Shenzhen Baimai Technology Co., Ltd. When working for an accounting firm in Hong Kong, Luo Yuanli felt the "pulse of science and technology" of the times, so he chose to go north to Qianhai and switch tracks into the field of machine vision.

"The future is the era of science and technology, the era of innovation." Luo Yuanli said. In the past four years since he entered DreamWorks, his Shenzhen Baimai Technology Co., Ltd. has grown from 7 people to more than 100 people.

Each of the nine cities in the Greater Bay Area has a dream footstep left by young people from Hong Kong and Macao.

Lam Wai Bin, a Hong Konger who has worked hard in the mainland for more than 20 years, has witnessed the rapid economic and social development of the mainland, and more and more young people from Hong Kong and Macao have gone to the mainland for development. The Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, which he founded, has provided entrepreneurial support to nearly 200 Hong Kong and Macao enterprises.

In August this year, the National 14th Five-Year Plan Publicity Team, composed of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Bank and other departments, went to Hong Kong for exchanges and issued an invitation to Hong Kong youth, welcomed Hong Kong youth to study, work and live in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, and encouraged them to actively participate in the construction of the country. This greatly encouraged Lin Huibin.

"The fact that the state sent a propaganda team to Hong Kong is not only an emphasis on Hong Kong youth, but also an expectation of Hong Kong youth." Lin Huibin said, "Young people in Hong Kong and Macao should understand the strategic goals of the country's medium- and long-term development, find points that are integrated with their career development in many directions, and take advantage of the momentum." ”

Five years ago, "post-90s" Hong Kong maker Wu Jiahui came to Guangzhou to start a career in the mainland. Today, the Guangzhou TIMETABLE Greater Bay Area Incubator he founded has become one of the four entrepreneurial bases of the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home in Tianhe District. In Wu Jiahui's eyes, the unique advantages of the Greater Bay Area are huge market potential, perfect supply chain and emerging new business models.

While studying in Hong Kong, Wu Jiahui began to start a business, opening a physical education center and an online education platform. It didn't take long for him to feel the "ceiling" of development. "The Hong Kong market is relatively small and stable, and there are stable industry leaders in every industry, leaving not many opportunities for entrepreneurs."

After graduation, seeing the rapid development momentum of the mainland, Wu Jiahui made up her mind to go to the Greater Bay Area. At present, TIMETABLE mainly focuses on discovering and cultivating technology start-ups, and some of the projects incubated have been landed. He said: "New industries and new formats call for more creative and motivated young people to participate more. ”

The Macau Yellow Book Fair has been struggling for 20 years in several cities in the Greater Bay Area. From being employed in Dongguan by a Hong Kong-funded IT company to open a network line for hong Kong-funded and Taiwan-funded enterprise customers with cross-regional offices, to founding Fnetlink Group to provide communication service support for mainland enterprises to expand across the country, HuangShuzhan has achieved a transformation from employment to entrepreneurship.

Seeing the rising volume of business, Huang Shuzhan made a bold decision in 2017: abandoning its original overseas hardware and software partners and joining hands with mainland enterprises to use software-defined WANs to serve customers.

This decision once caused the company's performance to fall to the bottom. Looking back on the transformation decision of that year, Huang Shuzhan did not regret it: "Chinese mainland market is the largest market in the world, so I decided to mainlandize all service enterprises and focus on providing services for mainland enterprises." ”

Today, Fnetlink Group has become an important enterprise communication technology service enterprise in the Greater Bay Area. Huang Shuzhan believes that the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has injected new momentum into the take-off of Fnetlink Group.

"The Greater Bay Area is characterized by the integration of Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland, and we are also looking for opportunities to see how we can use our technology to help enterprises reduce the cost of cross-border network services." Huang Shuzhan is leading the team to expand its business to Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen and other places, and he looks forward to more opportunities in the Greater Bay Area in the future. (Reporters Zhao Ruixi and Hong Zehua)