Soft and hard connectivity, collaborative integration - Side notes on the fifth anniversary of the public release of the Development Plan Outline for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area
2024-02-21
Five years ago, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council publicly released the Outline of the Development Plan for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. In the past five years, as one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest economic vitality in China, the Greater Bay Area has accelerated the development of its science and technology innovation industry, continuously expanded its soft and hard connectivity, and deepened its coordinated and integrated development, effectively promoting the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall development of the country. This new era is a new attempt to form a new pattern of comprehensive opening up and a new practice to promote the development of the "one country, two systems" cause, and is achieving fruitful results. The accelerated development of the science and technology innovation industry in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area includes Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, as well as nine cities in the Pearl River Delta, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai in Guangdong. Last year, the Shenzhen Hong Kong Guangzhou cluster ranked second in the world for the fourth consecutive year in the 2023 Global Innovation Index "Technology Cluster" ranking released by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Gong Guoping, Secretary of the Party Group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, stated that joining the world's top science and technology cluster relies on the continuous improvement of the "basic research+technological breakthroughs+achievement transformation+technology finance+talent support" innovation ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area, continuous optimization of the regional innovation system, and efforts to promote the construction of the International Science and Technology Innovation Center. At present, the R&D investment intensity in the Greater Bay Area exceeds 3.4%, and the main scientific and technological indicators such as R&D funding, effective number of invention patents, and PCT international patent applications remain at the top in the country. Relying on continuously improving innovation capabilities, the industrial competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area is also constantly improving. On the banks of Lingdingyang, in the Zhongshan factory of Honglida, a Hong Kong funded enterprise located adjacent to the Shenzhen Zhongshan Channel, the indicator lights of the operating machines flicker frequently, and several machine trucks shuttle between injection molding equipment. By relying on digital technology, autonomous mobile robots operate in an orderly manner along the planned route within the factory area, enabling this "light out factory" to achieve unmanned production throughout the entire process from material loading, parts processing to logistics. Honglida has been cultivating in Guangdong for many years. With the rise of Guangdong's manufacturing industry and the development of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Honglida has collaborated with its partner, the Hong Kong Productivity Council, to develop a digital management system based on artificial intelligence, achieving the full process digitization of product development to mass production. Deeply participating in the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong and Macao enterprises represented by Honglida are gaining dividends in their development. "The per capita revenue of the company in 2023 has increased by about 138% compared to 2018, with a significant increase in output value and a significant increase in profits," said Cai Junjie, founder and CEO of Honglida Group. At present, the Greater Bay Area has 8 trillion yuan industrial clusters, including the new generation of electronic information, green petrochemicals, smart home appliances, and automobiles. Emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, new energy storage, and solar photovoltaics are accelerating their development. Driven by the vigorous development of various industries, the total economic output of the Greater Bay Area is expected to exceed 13.6 trillion yuan in 2023, and the economic scale has reached a new level. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of soft and hard connectivity, the interconnection of infrastructure in the Greater Bay Area is accelerating with the connection of rapid transportation. According to data released by the border inspection station of the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge on February 14th, the port reached a new high in passenger and vehicle flow during the Spring Festival period: the daily inbound and outbound passenger flow reached 144000, and the daily inbound and outbound vehicle flow exceeded 18000 for the first time, both breaking records. With the "Australian car heading north"
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
Source：Xinhua
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