On the afternoon of February 18th, Guangdong held a talent sub forum for the Provincial High Quality Development Conference. Multiple experts and talents from different fields had in-depth exchanges and discussions on the theme of "Strengthening Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Talent Cooperation and Strengthening Industrial Science and Technology Talent Support". 20 universities, laboratories, and enterprises held a signing ceremony on strengthening industrial science and technology talent cooperation. The forum sincerely invites talents at home and abroad to enter Guangdong, choose Guangdong, start businesses in Guangdong, and take root in Guangdong. In the upsurge of promoting industrial scientific and technological innovation and promoting the construction of Chinese path to modernization, the forum will display passion for struggle, burst out innovation vitality, and write brilliant chapters. In recent years, Guangdong has insisted on taking talents as the most important support for modernization, giving full play to the role of talents as the first resource, deepening and expanding the institutional advantages of talents leading development, the innovative advantages of industrial technology, the opening advantages of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao talent cooperation, and the environmental advantages of supporting talent innovation and entrepreneurship, which has painted a magnificent picture of talent flooding into the the Pearl River. Especially in the just concluded year 2023, the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area has utilized its regional advantages to promote coordinated development of talents. New breakthroughs have been made in introducing, cultivating, and utilizing talents, forming a favorable situation for coordinated development of talents in the Greater Bay Area and jointly building an industrial highland. At the just concluded third Hengqin International Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the "Macau Track" and "New Qinglian Award" were specially established, and the scope of enterprise landing was expanded from Hengqin to Macau. The project recruitment attracted 1359 projects from 17 countries and regions around the world to participate, including 278 projects from the "Macau Track", a year-on-year increase of twice. "Since its establishment, the Hengqin Guangdong Macao Deep Cooperation Zone has carried out talent cooperation based on industrial and technological innovation through innovative policy connections between Hengqin and Macao, exploring collaborative talent attraction paths between Qinzhou and Macao, and jointly building an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem." said Su Kun, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of the Hengqin Guangdong Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. Cao Jianlin, director of Jihua Laboratory, introduced that the laboratory has strengthened resource integration with universities and enterprises in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions, and actively carried out joint talent training. Guided by scientific research exchange and project cooperation, actively exploring the co construction of innovation centers with universities in the Bay Area, and horizontally expanding the joint training base for engineering master's and doctoral degrees, outstanding engineers, and skilled talents with universities and vocational colleges in the Bay Area. In the view of Mao Junfa, an academician of the CAS Member and president of Shenzhen University, the talent collaboration and exchange in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area has pressed the fast forward button. Chen Xiangsheng, an academician of the CAE Member and dean of the School of Civil and Traffic Engineering of Shenzhen University, set up the first Hong Kong academician workstation of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Hong Kong, which is of pioneering significance for promoting the exchange and integration of high-end talents in engineering, science and technology and other fields between Hong Kong and the mainland. Mao Junfa stated that there are over 2200 talents from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao working at Shenzhen University. The talent collaboration and facilitation policy represented by talent endorsement has further accelerated the progress of Shenzhen University in building a world-class comprehensive university, which is conducive to promoting the transformation and upgrading of the science and technology industry in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, enhancing the level of scientific and technological innovation in the region, and strengthening talent cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. Through a series of mechanism innovations, the technological achievements of talents from Hong Kong and Macao have been promoted for transfer and transformation in Guangdong. According to members of the CAS Member