The second survey of youth in Guangdong,Hong Kong and Macao in the Greater Bay Area
With the advancement of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the cooperation between the three places has become more extensive and in-depth, and more and more young people from Hong Kong and Macao have come to Guangdong for development. How do Hong Kong and Macao youth who go to school, start a business, and live in Guangdong view the Greater Bay Area strategy, and how do they evaluate Guangdong's livable environment and cultural environment? Nandu PollIng Center recently released the "Survey Report on the Recognition of Youth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Greater Bay Area", following the first interpretation of the situation of Hong Kong and Macao youth coming to Guangdong and the attractiveness of Guangdong, this article will present the recognition of Hong Kong and Macao youth in Guangdong to the Greater Bay Area from the perspective of value identity, cultural identity and livable environment identity.
The report shows that in terms of value recognition, more than 90% of the young people surveyed from Hong Kong and Macao agree that the Greater Bay Area strategy is more conducive to giving full play to the location advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and can promote the coordinated development and sharing of achievements between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao; in terms of cultural identity, 90% of the respondents agree that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are of the same origin, and nearly 80% of the adults are satisfied with the cultural environment of the Greater Bay Area; in terms of livable environment, the satisfaction of young people in Hong Kong and Macao is more than 80%, and the satisfaction with social security, living conditions and ecological environment is the highest.
Livable environment:
80% of the respondents expressed satisfaction with the livable environment in the Greater Bay Area, with the highest satisfaction with social security, living conditions and ecological environment
Creating a high-quality living circle that is livable, workable and travel-friendly is an important goal of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and it is also an attractive factor to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of Young People in Hong Kong and Macao in the Mainland and attract high-end talents. How do Hong Kong and Macao youth in Guangdong view the livable environment in the Greater Bay Area? In the survey, 80.84% of the young people surveyed from Hong Kong and Macao expressed satisfaction with the livable environment in the Greater Bay Area. Among them, the respondents currently living in Shenzhen have a better evaluation of the livable environment, with a satisfaction rate of 85.85%, and 47.47% of the very satisfied, which is significantly higher than that of other cities.
Specific to all aspects of the livable environment, the respondents had the highest satisfaction with social security, living conditions and living facilities, respectively, 80.03%, 78.90%, 76.81%, followed by the ecological environment and public transportation, with a satisfaction rate of more than 70%. Interactive analysis found that respondents in Shenzhen and Huizhou were more satisfied with social security, living conditions, and living facilities, and the proportion of respondents who expressed great satisfaction was more than 45%.
For Huang Wenxuan, a young Hong Kong youth interviewed, what impressed him most about the Greater Bay Area was the rapid development of the city in recent years, and the efficiency of life, travel and other aspects has improved significantly, "Now you don't have to bring a wallet when you go out, you can solve problems such as payment and travel with a mobile phone." "He said that the convenience of life and the stability of social security are the reasons why he is willing to stay in Foshan to start a business and live." Compared with more than a decade ago, the sense of security in life in the mainland has now increased geometrically, and it is very happy to see the development of the Greater Bay Area, with a beautiful and livable environment. ”
Lin Guangjian, who is also from Hong Kong, has lived in Guangzhou for 5 years, and he believes that living in Guangzhou is quite convenient, and electronic payment, high-speed rail, etc. have greatly improved their living efficiency. "Compared with Hong Kong, the mainland's 'new four major inventions' (namely high-speed rail, scan code payment, shared bicycles and online shopping) are really cool, and now you don't have to bring cash when you go out, you can do it with a mobile phone."
Ye Jingyi (right) and entrepreneurial partners (courtesy of interviewee)
Ye Jingyi, who stayed in Shenzhen to develop, spoke highly of Shenzhen. She believes that shenzhen, as a smart city, is at the forefront of intelligent, informatized and electronic life. In terms of medical treatment, the government has increased investment in the construction of hospitals, docking Hong Kong's high-quality medical resources, so that the people's medical care is more secure. At present, Ye Jingyi has already done a good job of the mainland identity card, she said, "the process is very fast, the id card can be universal, the brush card is inbound, and there is no difference between Hong Kong and Macao personnel and mainland personnel." ”
Cultural Identity:
More than 90% of the respondents agree that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have the same origin, and Cantonese cuisine, Cantonese and morning tea are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are geographically close and have the same culture. According to the survey results, 90.50% of the respondents agree with the same origin in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. From the perspective of different academic qualifications, the higher the academic qualifications, the higher the recognition of the same origin in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, among which the respondents with master's and doctoral degrees expressed "very much consent" the proportion of respondents were more than 70%.
It can be seen that the young people from Hong Kong and Macao interviewed have a strong sense of belonging and identity to the common cultural origins of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. So, how familiar are you with the traditional culture of Guangdong? Survey data shows that 86.63% of the respondents said they were familiar, of which 47.50% were very familiar. The interaction analysis found that the higher the respondents' familiarity with Guangdong's traditional culture, the stronger their sense of belonging and identity with the Greater Bay Area.
In terms of cultural environment, the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area proposes to "jointly build a humanistic bay area", emphasizing the need to cooperate in holding various cultural heritage exhibitions and performances, protect, publicize and make good use of cultural relics and monuments, world cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage in the bay area, and support the promotion of Lingnan culture represented by Cantonese opera, dragon boats, martial arts, and waking lions, highlighting the unique cultural charm.
In the survey, the cantonese cultural symbols that the respondents are most familiar with are Cantonese cuisine (92.11%), Cantonese (84.06%), and morning tea (82.77%). For the intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Waking Lion, the familiarity of respondents showed an age difference: the older respondents had a higher degree of familiarity with Guangdong Waking Lion, of which 30 (inclusive) to 40 years old and 40 (inclusive) to 45 years old accounted for 54.05% and 51.79% respectively, while 25 (inclusive) to 30-year-old respondents accounted for only 37.14%.
Ye Jingyi said that she came to Guangzhou from Hong Kong in 2016 to study, and after graduation, she stayed behind to start a business. In the past, her impression of Guangdong was mainly "developed trade, heavy business, and everyone actively making money", and only after coming did she feel the humanistic atmosphere and rhythm of life in Guangdong, "especially the morning tea culture of Guangdong". She believes that compared with her ancestral hometown of Fujian, Cantonese people know how to enjoy life better and have more calm and elegant. She said that Guangdong has both a modern city with high-rise buildings and a small restaurant with old streets, on the one hand, Guangdong's economic vitality is very strong, the work and life are efficient, the business environment is very good, and there is a service-oriented government, on the other hand, the life of Guangdong people is full of interest, and it is very convenient and fast to work and live in Guangdong. Ye Jingyi said that she has always paid attention to the traditional culture of Guangdong, including ancient poetry, traditional customs, Lingnan gardens and so on. She especially loves Lingnan gardens, "unlike the exquisite and delicate Gardens of Suzhou, Lingnan Gardens embody a pragmatic spirit, and Cantonese people do not stick to form and attach importance to practicality." ”
Many interviewees also said that the traditional cultural atmosphere in Guangdong is stronger than that in Hong Kong and Macao. Lin Guangjian believes that Guangzhou and Hong Kong do not have much difference in diet and language, and they have the habit of "eating Cantonese food, drinking morning tea, and speaking Cantonese". A little different is that Lin Guangjian feels that the atmosphere of celebrating traditional festivals in Guangzhou is more intense, "the inheritance of traditional customs and traditional etiquette here will be more important than in Hong Kong, and the atmosphere is stronger." Macao youth Tam Ka Man said that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday she returned to Macao, "the traffic between the two places is very convenient, brush fingerprints to pass the customs, 5 minutes to get rid of." She said that the language and food culture of Guangzhou and Macao are similar, but the traditional festival atmosphere is stronger, "just like the Mid-Autumn Festival just past, I feel that Guangzhou people pay more attention to it, and relatives and friends will send mooncakes to each other as gifts." ”
In general, young people in Hong Kong and Macao have a strong sense of belonging and identity with Chinese culture, and more than 80% of the respondents are satisfied with the cultural environment of the Greater Bay Area. The interaction analysis found that the higher the respondents' familiarity with Guangdong's traditional culture and the higher their integration into the life of the Greater Bay Area, the higher their satisfaction with the cultural environment of the Greater Bay Area.
Value Recognition:
More than 90% of the young people surveyed from Hong Kong and Macao agreed that the construction of the Greater Bay Area is conducive to giving full play to the geographical advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and promoting the coordinated development of the three places
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is an important spatial carrier for the country to build a world-class city cluster and participate in global competition, which is of great strategic significance. In the survey, the young people from Hong Kong and Macao interviewed have a high degree of recognition of the strategy and development value of the Greater Bay Area. According to the data, 92.60% of the young people surveyed in Hong Kong and Macao agreed that the strategy of the Greater Bay Area is more conducive to giving play to the location advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao; in terms of the coordinated development of the three places, 92.59% of the young people surveyed in Hong Kong and Macao agreed that the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and the construction of the Greater Bay Area can promote the coordinated development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao; at the same time, 93.56% of the young people in Hong Kong and Macao believe that the future development direction of the Greater Bay Area is suitable for living and working in peace and contentment. The proportion of respondents who said that the above three views is generally about 6%, and those who disagree with them are less than 1%.
The interactive analysis found that the Hong Kong and Macao youth groups who started and worked in Guangdong had a higher degree of recognition of the strategy and development values of the Greater Bay Area, and the proportion of respondents who chose "very much agreed" was 10-20% higher than that of the student group. In terms of age, the 25-35-year-old Hong Kong and Macao youth surveyed had the highest recognition of the value of the Greater Bay Area, with about 70% of the respondents expressing "strong agreement" with the three views listed in the questionnaire.
Zhuhai Xuemeng Education Technology Co., Ltd., co-founded by Tan Hangyu (second from right) and Zhen Siming (first from right), opened in June 2019. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Tan Hangyu from Macao is a post-95, after returning from studying in the UK three years ago, he did not choose to "follow the rules" of the office life, but went to the Greater Bay Area to start a business and established Zhuhai School Meng Education Technology Co., Ltd. He shared that after the release of the 2019 Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the topic of the Greater Bay Area has attracted widespread attention. "When I study abroad, teachers often discuss this topic with us, and I think [the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area] is a good development direction." Tan Hangyu had the idea of starting a business since then, and happened to meet his classmate Zhen Siming from Hong Kong, who also saw the development opportunities created by the Greater Bay Area for the youth of Hong Kong and Macao. Tan Hangyu smiled and said, "I was in the same class as Siming when I was studying for a master's degree in the UK. He was an undergraduate at Jinan University's Zhuhai campus and was familiar with many aspects of Zhuhai, so we decided to try it in Zhuhai after returning from the UK. "They settled in Zhuhai Dahua Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Center, and the preferential rent greatly saved the cost of starting a business."
Tan Hangyu was most impressed by the rapid development of electronic payment, online car travel, high-speed rail, highways and other aspects, which have greatly improved the efficiency of life. On the other hand, Tan Hangyu also said: "Everyone pays great attention to our group of Bay Area entrepreneurial 'post-students', such as in various entrepreneurial competitions, training and other occasions, we have a lot of opportunities to be exposed and recognized, and also let everyone know more about our entrepreneurial projects." He believes that the construction and development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has made all sectors of society pay more attention to Hong Kong and Macao youth, which is a good opportunity for entrepreneurs to create personal IP or company publicity.
Survey Overview:
The survey was conducted by the Nandu Polling Center from September 10 to October 16, 2021, and the questionnaire was conducted by contacting relevant Hong Kong and Macao youth organizations and youth innovation institutions, and using snowball sampling to conduct questionnaire surveys and interviews. A total of 621 valid questionnaires were collected, all of whom were young people from Hong Kong and Macao who were studying, working, starting a business and living in Guangdong, of which 76.49% and 23.51% were respondents from Hong Kong and Macao, respectively. Affected by the survey location, the proportion of respondents living in Guangzhou was the highest, at 57.17%, followed by Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan, accounting for 15.94%, 6.44% and 6.28% respectively, in addition, respondents living in other cities in the Pearl River Delta and other Guangdong cities accounted for 10.14% and 4.02% respectively. The respondents were all between the ages of 18 and 45, of which the respondents aged 18-25, 25-30 and 30-35 were relatively high, with 40.10%, 22.54% and 16.43% respectively. From the perspective of the gender of the respondents, men and women accounted for 56.52% and 43.48% respectively. From the perspective of education level, the proportion of respondents with bachelor's/bachelor's degrees was the highest, at 57.81%, followed by college/higher college and master's degrees and above, accounting for 22.71% and 10.63% respectively, and some respondents were secondary schools and below or associate degrees. From the perspective of the industries engaged in by the respondents, the Internet industry, culture/sports/entertainment industry, industrial manufacturing industry and domestic trade or import and export trade accounted for a relatively high proportion, all of which were about 10%.
Research topics in social surveys and public opinion
Social Group and Public Psychology Studies
Project Producer: Nandu Poll Center
Project Producer: Xie Bin Zhang Chun
Project Host: Wen Yiran
Project Execution: Nandu Researcher Wen Yiran, Mai Jieying, Zheng Yunan
Intern Chen Ziying Luo Yidan Wen Yiting
Support platform: Southern Metropolis Daily official WeChat public account
Supporting organizations (in no particular order):
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Incubator
Home for Young Students from Hong Kong and Macao in the Mainland
Guangdong University Macau Students Association
Guangzhou Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base Alliance
Headquarters of Hong Kong and Macao Youth Home in Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (Nanshacheng) International Youth Innovation Community
Guangdong-Macao Youth Innovation International Industry Accelerator
Macao Youth Innovation Tribe
Dedicated co-creation space
Huilong Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base
Guangzhou Airport Zhihui Huadu (International) Qingchuang Base
Home for young people from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese in Conghua
Shenzhen North Railway Station Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center
Foshan Hong Kong and Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Incubation Base
Zhuhai Dahua Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Center
Huizhou Zhongkai Hong Kong and Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Base