People's Daily: The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a wide sea and a wide sky

Sea and Sky, Striving for Success (Greater Bay Area Greater Future)

——Report from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Part 2)

Macau and Hengqin scenery. Photo by Chen Shuoming (Image China)

"I and my motherland cannot be separated for a moment..." In Shenzhen Bay Park, next to Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, in front of The Ruins of St. Paul's in Macau, under the "little barbarian waist" in Guangzhou... On May Fourth Youth Day, the common melody of "My Motherland and Me" sounded in front of 11 city landmarks in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The faces of youth are full of vitality, the development of the Bay Area is changing with each passing day, and the youth of the Bay Area sing their patriotic enthusiasm through pop-up performances, and also sing their infinite vision for the beautiful future of the Greater Bay Area.

"The vast number of young people in Hong Kong and Macao are not only the hope and future of Hong Kong and Macao, but also the fresh blood of building the country." If the young people of Hong Kong and Macao develop well, Hong Kong and Macao will develop well and the country will develop well. It is necessary to build more platforms and ladders for the development of young people in Hong Kong and Macao, help young people solve practical difficulties and problems encountered in their studies, employment, entrepreneurship, and other aspects, and create a social environment conducive to young people's achievement of their dreams in life. "General Secretary Xi Jinping has placed great expectations on the youth of Hong Kong and Macao and is concerned about the future development of young people in Hong Kong and Macao.

The continuous deepening of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has opened up a broader space for hong Kong and Macao compatriots, especially young people, and brought great development opportunities, and more and more Hong Kong and Macao compatriots have opened a new chapter of hard work and achievement in the Greater Bay Area.

Innovation and entrepreneurship, the "Bay Area Dream" has taken root

Standing on the observation deck on the 45th floor of the Qianhai Shimao Tower in Shenzhen, the busy scene on the construction site of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation Zone is clearly visible in Hong Kong 10 kilometers away.

Located on the 36th floor of the Shimao Tower, Shenzhen Qianhai Hand-painted Technology and Culture Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Laihua") currently has nearly 30% of the 120-person team in Shenzhen, with Hong Kong colleagues accounting for nearly 30%. Liao Zhipeng, a Hong Kong youth who is a senior at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, interned here, "I plan to work in Shenzhen after graduation, so I will come to the painting internship first." Liao Zhipeng carefully counted the places that attracted him in Shenzhen, "Shenzhen has many emerging industries, many opportunities, a good living environment, and the people around him are friendly; to draw flat management, there is a lot of room for development; there are transportation subsidies and housing subsidies for internships here..."

"Many Hong Kong youth engaged in the design industry are very willing to come to Shenzhen to develop, and we plan to recruit more than 100 Hong Kong and Macao youth through the 'Qianhai Hong Kong and Macao Youth Recruitment Scheme' this year, and have received more than 800 resumes in the past three and a half months." Wei Bo, founder and CEO of Laihua, introduced that hong Kong colleagues have received good professional education in design, can use English proficiently in international promotion, have strong pressure bearing ability, and are the company's right-hand men.

The development of the nine cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has its own characteristics and has become a fertile ground for hong Kong and Macao youth to innovate and start a business, internship and employment. In recent years, various preferential policies and supporting measures for Young People from Hong Kong and Macao to work and start businesses in the Mainland have become more and more perfect. According to the public data analysis of the government website, from February 2019 to April this year, the central and local governments at all levels have successively issued 231 relevant policy documents related to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, of which employment and entrepreneurship accounted for 23%, which is the most concerned area.

Ho Chi Wai, a young man from Macau who graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, started his own entrepreneurial path in Zhongshan. "Zhongshan City is located in an important location in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with low entrepreneurial costs, a good entrepreneurial environment and great market opportunities." Before settling in Zhongshan, He Zhiwei did a detailed market research, where there is a Zhongshan Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship cooperation platform, providing Hong Kong and Macao youth with "one-stop" entrepreneurial services including industrial and commercial registration, financial and tax agency, legal advice, entrepreneurial counseling, etc. "I prepared the start-up capital myself, the other is almost zero cost, Zhongshan provides entrepreneurial subsidies and free office space. We can also enjoy local social security and medical insurance. Ho Chi Wai bought a house in Zhongshan, "Compared with Macau, the house price in Zhongshan is very affordable, and it only takes more than 20 minutes to take the light rail to return to Macau." ”

At present, platforms that support hong Kong and Macao youth entrepreneurship and employment like the Zhongshan Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Platform have blossomed everywhere in the Greater Bay Area: in Nansha, Guangzhou, the "Chuanghui Valley" Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Cultural and Creative Community has gathered 74 Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation teams; in Shenzhen Qianhai, Shenzhen, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Youth DreamWorks has incubated a total of 356 entrepreneurial teams with a total financing amount of more than 1.5 billion yuan; in Zhuhai Hengqin, the Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Valley has flourished, accumulatively incubating 433 projects, and introducing and cultivating 50 high-tech enterprises. Each innovation and entrepreneurship base has incubated one entrepreneurial plan after another, and at the same time, it has also incubated the "Bay Area Dream" of Hong Kong and Macao youth.

Hong Kong young Man Chan Hyun Han has achieved personal success in serving the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. After the steady development of his own start-up company, Chen Xianhan and the Government of Tianhe District of Guangzhou Jointly built the Headquarters Entrepreneurship Base of Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home in Tianhe District and served as the general manager. In just three years, Chan has hosted thousands of young people from Hong Kong and Macao, providing them with a lot of help in starting a business in the mainland. "The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made me now and created my future. I will also continue to help young people in Hong Kong and Macao understand the Greater Bay Area and break out of their own world in the Greater Bay Area. Chen Xianhan said.

Livable and suitable for work and travel, a high-quality living circle has gradually formed

"I'm fascinated by the slow life here, where I can go to the beach after work and enjoy a meal in the ancient city on weekends." Zhang Xinyi, a Hong Kong girl who has just arrived at Shenzhen's Dapeng New Area to work, has fallen in love with it. At the end of 2019, she became the first batch of Hong Kong civil servants through the recruitment of Guangdong Province's 2020 selection and transfer of students and urgently needed professional civil servants, and is currently working in the Science and Technology Innovation and Economic Service Bureau of Dapeng New District.

"At that time, when I saw the news, I thought the opportunity was good, and I wanted to challenge myself." Zhang Xinyi said that the role of policy demonstration in recruiting Hong Kong civil servants for the first time is particularly important.

In fact, since 2019, Guangdong has recruited civil servants in batches of targeted Hong Kong and Macao people, and it is not unusual for Hong Kong and Macao residents to become civil servants in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area. In June 2020, Guangdong promulgated the Administrative Measures for the Public Recruitment of Hong Kong and Macao Residents by Public Institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Mainland) (for Trial Implementation), and the first batch of more than 10,000 public institutions open recruitment positions were open to Hong Kong and Macao residents; in October 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the Pilot Measures for Hong Kong Legal Practitioners and Macao Practicing Lawyers to Obtain Mainland Practice Qualifications and Engage in The Legal Profession in Nine Cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Eligible Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers can engage in a certain range of mainland legal affairs; in 2020, the "Zhuhai Special Economic Zone Hong Kong and Macao Tourism Practitioners in Hengqin New Area" was promulgated, and Hong Kong and Macao tourism practitioners can practice in Hengqin New Area... Up to now, Guangdong Province has promoted two-way mutual recognition with unilateral recognition in 8 fields such as doctors, teachers and tour guides, and it has become normal for Hong Kong and Macao professionals to facilitate their practice in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, and the corresponding policy support is becoming more and more perfect.

Open the "Guangdong Tax Pass" Mini Program real-name authentication login, in the "House Sale" module to supplement the certificate number, handle the declaration and pay taxes... "Very convenient, less than 10 minutes to get it done." Ms. Leung, a Macao resident, recently bought a new house in Zhuhai's Hengqin New Area and completed the deed tax payment through her mobile phone, "In the future, if the people around me need it, I can teach them how to do it." ”

"At present, macao residents have purchased more than 40% of Hengqin properties." Rong Mei, deputy director of the Taxation Bureau of Zhuhai Hengqin New District, said, "After technical research and coordination with the real estate registration department, Hong Kong and Macao people can now purchase first-hand houses to achieve online self-service tax payment." In addition to online purchase of housing and tax payment, Hong Kong and Macao residents can also handle Zhuhai social security business online "enough not to leave the country". As of February 2021, more than 20,000 Hong Kong and Macao residents have participated in the basic old-age insurance in Zhuhai, and more than 30,000 Hong Kong and Macao residents have participated in the basic medical insurance.

With the deepening of the integrated development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and the gradual formation of a high-quality living circle that is livable, workable and travelable, the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area have gradually become the first choice for many Hong Kong and Macao elderly people. According to 2020 data from the Census and Statistics Department of the HKSAR Government, about 90,000 Hong Kong permanent residents over the age of 65 are living in Guangdong.

Ouyang Liang, a silver-haired man from Hong Kong, is 87 years old and runs around the nursing home a few times a day. He is one of the many Elderly people in Hong Kong and Macao who choose to retire in jiangmen Happy Four Seasons Home Care Center. Ouyang Liang said: "The environment here is good, the space is large, and the running is very comfortable. ”

"Jiangmen was identified by the state as the first batch of pilot cities for the integration of medical and nursing care in 2016, and at present, all 101 pension institutions in the city are equipped with medical services, and the coverage rate of medical and nursing care is 100%." According to the person in charge of the Jiangmen Civil Affairs Bureau, we will make full use of the good opportunities in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, adapt to local conditions, build Jiangmen into a pension base for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and provide more secure and high-quality old-age services for Hong Kong and Macao compatriots.

With the same roots and the same origin, the humanistic bay area blooms with vitality

"Straddling the two sides of the Pearl River, a bridge flying on the lingling ocean..." The Cantonese rhyme singing voice of Hong Zhong came out of the small theater of the Cantonese Opera Art Museum in Guangzhou, and The 82-year-old famous Cantonese opera performance artist and provincial inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Cantonese opera Sang the winning work of the Global Micro Cantonese Opera Competition "A Bridge Flying Frame Lingling Yang".

In 2009, upon joint application by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Cantonese opera was inscribed on unesco's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In recent years, Cantonese opera has increasingly become an important link between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. "Cantonese opera is a local drama genre that was born and developed in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, witnessing the blood connection of the culture of the Greater Bay Area. If we want to build a world-class bay area, we must jointly inherit and promote first-class traditional culture. Ni Huiying, president of the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Promotion Association, said, "Inherit and develop the cantonese opera art well, and help build a common spiritual home in the Greater Bay Area." ”

The Lingnan culture represented by Cantonese opera, dragon boat, martial arts, and waking lions has become the common cultural language of the three places, highlighting the unique charm of the humanistic spirit of the Greater Bay Area and opening up new space for the exchange and cooperation of the cultural industries of the three places.

In the early morning, hundreds of top racehorses from the Hong Kong Jockey Club breathe in the fresh air of Guangzhou Conghua and gallop freely on the grass – this is the Hong Kong Jockey Club Conghua Racecourse. Surrounded by mountains, Guangzhou Conghua relies on its superior natural environment and joins hands with the Hong Kong Jockey Club to create a horse racing industry, which has become a bright business card for the integrated development of the cultural industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Also feeling the charm of the Humanities Bay Area is Hong Kong's post-95s youth player Chen Junle. "After joining Guangzhou R&F for more than two years, the Chinese Super League is very close to the fast pace of my international competition in Hong Kong, China." In order to have a better performance in the 2021 Chinese Super League, Chen Junle was busy arranging additional training for himself a while ago, he said, with the continuous advancement of the construction of the Greater Bay Area, sports exchange activities in the three places, including youth football exchange matches, have become more frequent, and he hopes that more Hong Kong players will seize the opportunity and improve themselves.

Lingnan buildings such as arcade buildings and tile ridges are scattered, and hong Kong and Macao time-honored brands and characteristic cultural and creative shops are embedded in them... Foshan Lingnan Tiandi inherits the historical and cultural style and urban context of Lingnan, and has become a living model for the development of Foshan's cultural tourism industry and the transformation of the old city. Lee Kwok Ming and Ip Wai Chun are natives of Hong Kong who run a specialty restaurant here. "We came to Foshan in 2016 to travel, was attracted by the historical and cultural features here, after several surveys found that the local policy support is in place, strong spending power, we did not hesitate to come to Foshan from Hong Kong to start a business." Today, the "three elements" catering brand stores founded by the two have been laid out to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhuhai and other cities in the Greater Bay Area.

From the East River Column in southern Guangdong to the secret rescue of Guangdong and Hong Kong at the East Lake Hotel, from the Dongguan Humen Fort that inspired the strong to spread the legend of Bruce Lee in the world, from the delicious Guangzhou boat boy porridge to the smooth and soft Macao Portuguese egg tart... These unique cultural symbols all tell the historical and cultural origins of the Greater Bay Area, and the humanistic spiritual connotation of the Bay Area is also constantly enriched in the process of integrated development.

In December 2020, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Tourism Development Plan was issued, which put forward specific goals and development paths for the integrated development of culture in the Greater Bay Area. Liu Wei, head of the expert group for the preparation of the planning research, said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will become a window for the world to understand China, and it is also a big platform for civilization exchanges and mutual learning between China and the world.

Co-construction and sharing, contributing to the construction of a first-class bay area

The Shenzhen River flows from east to west and flows into the Lingling Ocean, like an umbilical cord connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong, witnessing the connection between each other's blood. The southern part of Shenzhen's Futian District, which borders Hong Kong, has a new name, the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone.

Small places have big things, and they breed big hope. This area, which is only 3.89 square kilometers in size, is an important platform for scientific and technological innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a fulcrum for Shenzhen to build a pioneering demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Zhu Junwen, founder of Leyi Culture and Sports Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., is one of the many Hong Kong and Macao people who are optimistic about this cooperation zone. In 1997, 16-year-old Zhu Junwen attended the handover ceremony of the Chinese and British governments in Hong Kong, and he still remembers the excitement and pride of the rain that did not die at night. Nowadays, his life has ushered in a new historical node, "in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, we Hong Kong and Macao young people, as a fresh force, have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders, and we should find our own positioning in the long river of history and undertake the mission of the times." "In 2020, Zhu Junwen's entrepreneurial team settled in the Hong Kong Youth Futian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community on the banks of the Shenzhen River, and his entrepreneurial dream blossomed in the Greater Bay Area.

In Shenzhen Qianhai, in Guangzhou Nansha, in Zhuhai Hengqin... A number of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao in-depth cooperation platform construction continues to advance, one by one innovation and development engines are fully launched, many Young people from Hong Kong and Macao like Zhu Junwen are optimistic about the development prospects of the Greater Bay Area, and are full of enthusiasm to devote themselves to the construction of the Greater Bay Area, participating in and witnessing the rapid changes and progress of the Greater Bay Area.

Hong Kong's post-80s entrepreneur, Tse Chi Heng, aims to contribute to the construction of a healthy bay area. Founded in Hong Kong Cyberport, and developed and grown in Shenzhen and Dongguan, Xie Zhiheng's "Miaozhi Technology" product has landed in more than 60 hospitals, providing doctors with quantitative surgical parameters and guidance systems. "I hope to do my best to make cost-effective medical devices that meet the needs of the Greater Bay Area and China, and help improve the domestic medical level and reduce costs." Speaking about the bright prospects of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Xie Zhiheng is full of confidence: "I hope that my newborn child can be proud to live in the Greater Bay Area. ”

"Born in a prosperous world, we should live up to the prosperity." Recently, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in a message to the youth of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area that he hoped that the young people of Hong Kong and Macao would play a better role in such a good development platform as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Dr. Zhang Yunfei of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology founded an unmanned boat enterprise in Zhuhai to build the world's leading independent innovation technology system for unmanned boats, he said: "The youth of the Bay Area should be the backbone of the development of the Greater Bay Area. ”

Post-80s Hong Kong youth Huang Huiming gave up a comfortable job to build a green pastoral complex in Dongguan, he said: "I hope to bring my own learning and high-quality resources to the Greater Bay Area, and contribute to the construction of a world-class bay area." ”

Liang Anli, a post-90s Hong Kong girl, took root in the mountains of Guizhou to plant flowers to help local farmers get rid of poverty and help rural revitalization, she said, "I hope to drive more young people in the Greater Bay Area to understand the needs of the country and contribute to their own strengths." ”......

Before the historical opportunity and mission of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, groups of young people from Hong Kong and Macao have taken the initiative to seize the opportunity, give full play to their own advantages, and sweat and contribute to the construction of a world-class bay area.

The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and other universities have laid out the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, the Songshan Lake Campus of the University of the Greater Bay Area has begun construction, the construction of higher education in the Greater Bay Area has entered the fast lane; the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been completed and opened to traffic, the Extension of the Macao Light Rail Hengqin Line is accelerating, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor is progressing smoothly, and the "Greater Bay Area on the Track" has accelerated its landing; the Cantonese Opera Art Museum has a melodious Cantonese rhyme, and the cultural blocks such as Yongqingfang, Nantou Ancient City, and Dapeng City that have been revitalized and transformed have new charm...

The sun jumps out of the horizon, and the morning sun spreads on the hot land of the Greater Bay Area. A world-class bay area and world-class urban agglomeration with great vitality and competitiveness is accelerating. More and more Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, especially young people, realize that the sea and the sky are wide, and they are energetic and promising!

(Source: People's Daily)