Kaifeng from the south, Yusi for the sheng!
This is a hot land of construction in south China, and it is also a place to realize ambitions. The 56,000-square-kilometer Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, under the personal planning, personal deployment and personal promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, has achieved remarkable results in stages after nearly four years of construction.
During the rainy season of the valley of sowing hope, and when the vibrant early summer was about to make a warm debut, the Nandu Reporting Team of the "Greater Bay Area Greater Future" divided into two roads and went deep into nine cities on the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary. A large amount of cutting-edge information about the construction of the Bay Area is coming, like the tide of the Pearl River, constantly stirring people's hearts.
Standing at the intersection of the "two hundred years" and looking at the Greater Bay Area, we continue to feel the youthful atmosphere, construction passion, surging power and great opportunities that fill the land of the Bay Area. For the centennial good fortune of the country, I have a deep understanding of the past.
From now on, Nandu has launched a series of special reports to take everyone to "understand the Greater Bay Area and understand China's great future".
On 1 July 2017, the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland. Under the personal witness of President Xi Jinping, the National Development and Reform Commission and the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao jointly signed the Framework Agreement on Deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation and Promoting the Construction of the Greater Bay Area in Hong Kong. With this as a symbol, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has officially begun.
The train of the times thus opened the "door of destiny". A group of young People from Hong Kong with dreams rumbled through Shenzhen's Luohu Lake and quickly rushed to different cities in the Bay Area.
Break the circle
Grew up in Hong Kong, studied in Australia, returned to Hong Kong, and directly entered the job market. Before coming to Foshan, Guangdong, Li Guoming and Ye Weijun's life footprints, like many young people born in the middle class of Hong Kong, have simple lines and simple beauty.
Li Guoming, one of the co-founders of Foshan Lingnan Tiandi THREE DROPS.
Perhaps even they themselves did not expect that a trip to Foshan would make their future life trajectory so colorful. They may not have expected that many years later, they would stand in the quaint laneways of Lingnan Tiandi in Foshan, as the co-founder of the Internet celebrity creative restaurant, facing the long guns and short cannons, telling the outside world the story of their "breaking the circle".
Ye Weijun is one of the co-founders of THRE DROPS Three Color Restaurant in Lingnan Tiandi, Foshan.
"When we play basketball together, we talk about entrepreneurship." Opening a creative restaurant bar is a dream that Li Guoming and Yip Wai-joon planted together when they studied hotel management at Griffith University in Australia.
After returning from studying abroad, they often met each other and never gave up their engagement with each other. "At that time, we often went to some exhibitions, and we also learned about the opportunities for entrepreneurship in the mainland, so I suggested that it would be better to go to the mainland to see it." Ye Weijun said.
Under the guidance of Ye Weijun's cousin, they came to Lingnan Tiandi in Foshan. "Several" glyph-shaped wok-ear eaves, sliding doors, Manchurian windows, water-milled green bricks... Standing on the clean cobblestone road, as far as the eye can see through the bright alleys, it seems that time is turned back. This piece of heaven and earth, the most core area of Foshan Chancheng District, was once a place where famous and prestigious people and dignitaries of Foshan lived a hundred years ago, and the ancestral temple is not far away.
Mo Dao pedestrians early, there are more early pedestrians! What helped this area to regain its vitality and vitality turned out to be the help of Shui On Properties, a well-known enterprise in Hong Kong. After "love at first sight", Li Guoming and Ye Weijun, a good partner (partner), began a rational investigation. Choosing a café, sitting from morning to night, tasting carefully, and watching slowly, they were amazed by foshan's spending power, "I think it has exceeded the consumption level of young people in Hong Kong." "At the same time, they are keenly aware that the mainland has a strong consumer market! This judgment immediately became the biggest motivation for them to continue to investigate the local market in the Bay Area.
"Hong Kong and Foshan share a common language, an understanding of culture and an identification with ideas that make us boldly take the first step in entrepreneurship." After half a year of further investigation and deliberation, they calculated another account: "The area of our store is about 300 or 400 square meters, and the rent is close to six figures, but it is only 1/3 of Hong Kong." ”
The advantage of rent makes the risk of starting a business a lot less. In 2016, Foshan Lingnan Tiandi finally became the first world for Li Guoming and Ye Weijun to bravely enter the Greater Bay Area! What the brothers did not expect was that after a few years, they ushered in a broader "world": the restaurant expanded to 11, and the brand covered Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan and other places.
"The development now has completely exceeded our expectations, and at first we did not expect such rapid growth." The two partners can't help but lament the size of the Greater Bay Area market.
Bonding
Stepping out of the comfort zone is not an easy task for many young people in Hong Kong. In their first year in Foshan, when their Hong Kong friends came to visit them, they "all took a wait-and-see attitude to see if you could survive." Five years on, those Hong Kong friends who follow them see their growing strength, but also see opportunities in the mainland, and even want to join together.
As a person who has come over, Li Guoming's advice is: you can't just listen, just watch! Be sure to experience and feel it yourself, "such as feeling the communication and interaction between people, to feel their living habits, before you can say that you know the city." ”
The power of demonstration is infinite. And behind every "circle-breaking" person, it is because they "see it with their own eyes" and "feel it with their own eyes".
In the course of interviews in the nine cities in the Bay Area, Nandu reporters found that young people like Li Guoming and Ye Weijun, who came from Hong Kong to start a business in the mainland, as long as they have the opportunity to "get along" with the mainland, the motivation to "break the circle" is like "planting grass" and slowly growing.
The most direct way to get together is to choose to come to the mainland to go to university. Guangdong is the province with the largest number of Hong Kong students enrolled in the mainland, with about 8,000 Hong Kong students coming to Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Jinan University and other universities every year to study. Four years or more of university can allow them to slowly become familiar with the mainland, but also give them more opportunities to learn about the various advantages of the state supporting them to stay in the mainland for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Zheng Jiawei, who was born in 1998, slowly fell in love with the mainland and was willing to stay and develop.
Gary, Assistant to the President of Shenzhen Wei'ai Intelligence. The 23-year-old Young Hong Kong is one of them. After four years of undergraduate studies at Jinan University, he, like many young people, faced a lot of employment confusion. "(Shenzhen) Qianhai came to our school to preach, mentioning a lot of entrepreneurial subsidies and preferential policies for Hong Kong youth, and housing can also be solved. Shenzhen is also close to Hong Kong, so I decided to try it here. It is not that I have no worries, but Zheng Jiawei told the Nandu reporter: "After all, I am still very young." ”
lighting
Youth is indeed a kind of capital. But trial and error still comes at a cost. Not to mention those young people in Hong Kong who have no opportunity to contact the mainland, even if they have a certain understanding of the mainland, it still takes a certain amount of courage to make up their minds to go north to develop.
But how can we make young people in Hong Kong and Macao understand that bravery is the passport of the brave, and prejudice is the tight curse of the prejudiced? And how to give them the strength to let these young people get a "pass" to break into the Greater Bay Area? In recent years, from the state to Guangdong to the Hong Kong SAR government and even to the enterprise level, unremitting efforts have been made to this end.
And all this also allowed some young Hong Kong people who went to the mainland first to see it. "Hong Kong Ah Hing and Ah Xuan (Exploring the Motherland)" Douyin operators Leung Liu Xuan and Huang Huaxing are also one of the representative figures.
In the beginning, the purpose of Ah Xing's registration of TikTok was mainly to share life in Hong Kong and attract mainlanders to play and consume in Hong Kong. But a few months later, he decided to make a 180-degree shift from "exploring Hong Kong" to "exploring the motherland." Ah Xing's partner Ah Xuan said that because after returning to Hong Kong to work after four years of university in Beijing, he saw that under the instigation of Hong Kong rioters, many young People in Hong Kong fell into a blind spot of cognition, and he hoped to do something about it.
Douyin has been operating for more than a year and has welcomed 330,000 fans. Backstage data shows that more than 20,000 of the fans are 24-30-year-old Hong Kong youths. "Some of these people work and live in the interior. On the one hand, they live in the mainland to witness the changes in the motherland, and on the other hand, they feel the pressure from Hong Kong. ”
In Ah Xuan's view, this group of people in Hong Kong belongs to the "sandwich layer", and they lack the courage and opportunity given by the outside world in the process of making choices. So they hope that in the process of disseminating content, they can provide more practical information for this group to make the next choice.
The express train of the times, there is no "wrong ride", only the difference between morning and evening. The forerunners can grab the "head soup", and the latecomers can also shoot the horse and chase it. Ah Xing and Ah Xuan said that they hope to become a positive energy voice, to be the "lighter" of Hong Kong young people, to influence more Hong Kong people.
Into
Hong Kong people help Hong Kong people, not only Ah Xing and Ah Xuan are in action. As early as 2017, there was a Hong Kong person who built another warm "home" for Hong Kong and Macao youth in Guangzhou, which was also the first Hong Kong and Macao youth home in Guangdong Province.
Lin Huibin is the director of Guangzhou Tianhe Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home.
His name is Lin Huibin. After more than three years of operation, more than 800 young people from Hong Kong and Macao have been attracted to it, of which more than 180 Young Enterprises from Hong Kong and Macao have been successfully incubated here. The impact is so great that it is eye-catching.
May 1 this year marks Lin Huibin's 21st year in Guangzhou. "I came to Guangzhou with uneasiness. At that time, I didn't know Guangzhou, I didn't have any friends, and I ran to Hong Kong on weekends. ”
It was this kind of loneliness and helplessness when he first arrived that made him think of "Hong Kong people helping Hong Kong people". "The reason why we call it Youth Home, not Junior Chamber of Commerce, is because we hope that young people from Hong Kong and Macao can find the feeling of home and the warmth of home when they come to Tianhe District." Recalling the footprints of his father's generation from Quanzhou to Hong Kong and his own from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Lin Huibin said emotionally that this step taken by young people is not easy.
Lin Huibin said that he has seen many young people in Hong Kong think about this for a long time, and some even inspected it for three years before making up their minds. He also knows deeply that once he takes this step out of Guangzhou, it will not only change their personal lives, but may even be the lives of the next generation. In his view, teaching young people from different professions how to start a business is beyond his ability. He hopes to help these young people from Hong Kong and Macao integrate into the city of Guangzhou and find opportunities for development.
In this young man's home, Lin Huibin said he did not want to play the role of "parent". On weekdays, like his brother, he will not only listen carefully to the complex inner demands of Young People in Hong Kong and Macao, but also help them change some cognitive problems. For example, he would teach young people to "look at both sides of everything" and that institutional differences are not black and white. He will also teach young people to understand the cultural differences between the two places, and how to pay attention to switching the "air conditioner" thinking of Hong Kong dialect to the "air conditioning" thinking of Mainland Mandarin when communicating.
What makes Lin Huibin happy is that it generally takes a year for Young People from Hong Kong and Macao to adapt to life in Guangzhou, and with the help of the Youth Home, this adaptation period has been shortened to 3 months, and the longest is only half a year.
pride
Compared with the Young People from Hong Kong and Macao who came to Lam Wai Bin's Youth Home for help, Hong Kong girl Liang Anli was obviously much luckier. Her mother came to Guangzhou in the 1990s to work hard, which gave her more opportunities to know Guangzhou and the mainland than her friends.
Liang Anli, one of the founders of Guangzhou Ganghua Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. and Ganghua (Guangzhou) Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd., is the leader of the poverty alleviation project of Guangzhou Ganghua Company.
When Lin Huibin decided to create the Guangzhou Tianhe Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home, Liang Anli's mother, as a representative of the company, was invited to visit Bijie City, Guizhou. Liang Anli, who accompanied her, found a business opportunity to start a business in Bijie, and also met a Zhou Qiao who was about the same age as her, but was already a mother of three children. "A family of 7 huddled in a small house, using a washbasin to receive rainwater." Liang Anli, who has lived a good life since childhood, has a vibration in her heart.
Because she helped the local people in Bijie to generate more than 7 million yuan in income, Liang Anli was awarded the advanced individual in Guizhou Province to overcome poverty.
After BiJie returned, Liang Anli met the relevant personnel of the Guangdong Provincial Counterpart Helping Guizhou Working Group through friends. After exchanging with them, she had a more comprehensive understanding of Guizhou and poverty alleviation.
In 2018, Liang Anli decided to start a business with Bijie's unique flower variety "Leek Ping" as the entry point. Born in Hong Kong, studying in the United States, although Liang Anli, who was "brainwashed" by her parents, knew very well that she would enter the business world sooner or later. However, as a post-90s generation, she never expected that one day, she would use the platform of the Greater Bay Area to develop her personal career and be closely linked with the development of the motherland.
Two years have passed, Liang Anli initiated the "Yunhai Flower Field" pastoral complex project and the blacksmith flower breeding and seedling planting base two projects, covering nearly 3,000 people from more than 500 poor households, helping the local people to generate more than 7 million yuan. As a result, she won the honors of Guizhou Province Poverty Alleviation Advanced Individual, Guangdong Province March 8 Red Banner Bearer and so on. Zhou Qiao also joined Liang Anli's project and grew into management.
In 2019, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is also the second year of Liang Anli's entrepreneurship. To this day, she is still impressed by that year's National Day military parade. "When the phalanx of poverty alleviation came over, I felt that I was related to it."
On February 25 this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly announced to the world that China had won a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, Liang Anli was even more excited. "I feel more and more integrated into the development of the country. I'm proud that I'm able to be involved in something so meaningful. ”
Yan Shu is the general manager of Huazhong Lianchuang Design Consultant (Hengqin) Co., Ltd. His firm is the first joint venture engineering consultancy in Guangdong Province between the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao.
During the interview, Nandu reporters have heard the "proud" voice of Young People in Hong Kong more than once. In Hengqin, Zhuhai, Yan Shu from Hong Kong was also extremely proud to tell Nandu reporters: "When we did this in 2019, we were like Sun Wukong, who stabbed a hole in the sky with a golden hoop stick. ”
Yan Shu said that "something unprecedented" is not only because huazhong Lianchuang Design Consultants (Hengqin) Co., Ltd., where he works, is the first joint venture engineering consulting institution in Guangdong Province between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao. Most importantly, as the company's general manager, he led the team to participate in the legislative process of promoting the "cross-border practice" of the engineering community in the Greater Bay Area. What makes Yan Shu even more proud is that this temptation or this reform in their engineering community has also led the financial community in the Greater Bay Area to step forward to carry out innovative services. Some areas in Guangshenguan also asked them for guidance and wanted to keep up.
Yan Shu said that this is the market demand forcing local legislative reform. However, they do not know that this is bringing new practices and demonstrations to the maintenance of stability of "one country, two systems." As participants and promoters of the construction of the Bay Area, their deeds have been given extraordinary historical significance by themselves.
The tide that came to the sea is now standing at the head of the tide!
Nandu Observation
The "Lion Rock Spirit" quietly surged through the Greater Bay Area
In 2015, a "to youth" film in Hong Kong went public, asking more than 7 million Hong Kong people: When will we fly?
Many years later, this group of hong Kong's future generations, borrowing their own stories of bravely breaking through (creating) the Bay Area, made a resounding answer to the times: The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is not a place of exile for youth! It is a place where beautiful dreams are placed! With empathy, they also issued a sincere invitation to their peers: Hurry up and get on the bus!
From bravely "breaking the circle" to becoming a "promoter of the construction of the Bay Area"; from "Hong Kong people helping Hong Kong people" to "integrating into the overall situation of national development". Nandu reporters deeply felt that with the planning and construction of the Greater Bay Area, with the arrival of this batch of hong Kong's aspiring young people, those "Lion Rock Spirit" that once made Hong Kong take off also flocked to the vibrant and steaming mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area.
When will these young people soar? No one knows. But dreams are always like shadows; struggle is becoming the background of their lives, setting off the youth even more dazzling!
Chief planner: Rong Mingchang
Executive planner: Wang Haijun Wang Weiguo
Coordinator: Huang Haishan
Written by: Nandu reporter Huang Haishan Li Xin
Photography: Li Menglin Lin Yaohua
Poster design: Lin Junming
H5 Technology: Deng Jiemin