**: Xinhua Daily Telegraph, December 3
Author: Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Zhou Qiang, Ma Xiaocheng, Zhou Ying, Xie Yikun.
On December 2, the 5th World Summit kicked off in Nansha, Guangzhou, with more than 450 representatives from nearly 200 countries, think tanks, international organizations and other institutions from more than 100 countries and regions around the world. This is also the first time that the summit has been held in a Chinese city other than Beijing since its inception.
Why did the world's first summit, which has gone through 14 years, choose Nansha?A year ago, Guangzhou Nansha was entrusted with a new mission by the state to build a major strategic platform based in the Bay Area, cooperating with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world. This time, Nansha stood in front of the world and accepted the focus of the world.
Fu Hua attended the signing ceremony between Xinhua News Agency and foreign ** institutions. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Bin The world** gathered in the "Heart of the Bay Area".
Standing on the 7th floor of the Administration Building of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in Nansha, you can see the entire campus at a panoramic view. Mohammad Hesham Haidarzadeh from the Public Relations Department of The Tehran Times took the first photos of the campus. The construction of this school took only about 20 months, and the completed campus is about twice the size of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
On the 2nd, the school, which officially opened in September last year, welcomed guests to participate in the world's first summit. The astonishing construction speed, modern teaching buildings, rich scientific and technological achievements, and flexible school-running mechanism attracted the amazement of the guests.
I have been to China many times, but this is my first time in Guangzhou, and it is also the first time I have come to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). "This university is very good, there are a lot of modern technological achievements, such as artificial intelligence health monitoring systems, applications similar to those used in news editing, which are very interesting and can teach students the importance of technology in social life." ”
On December 2, delegates to the World Summit visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Xinhua News Agency issued "The holding of the world's first summit allows the world to see Guangzhou and understand China. Feeling impressed by the energetic spirit of Chinese students, China's development and modern education model in recent years, this is her first visit to HKUST(GZ), and she is very interested in the framework of "HKUST as one, the two universities complement each other" and the novel academic structure of "hub-academic domain", and looks forward to more opportunities to understand the operation mechanism of the university's integrated discipline structure and the international enrollment and admission model.
In addition to HKUST (Guangzhou), on the same day, the guests who participated in the World Summit also visited Guangzhou Foreign Chinese School and GAC Science and Technology Museum, and left a deep impression on the guests with on-site explanations, dialogues, and interactive experiences.
In Guangzhou Foreign Chinese School, in the first class of students playing the guzheng, the guests experienced intangible cultural heritage courses such as tea tasting, crochet, paper-cutting, calligraphy, and dough sculpture one by one. In the exhibition hall, they carefully copied and copied, wrote the word "Fu" one stroke at a time, and cut it into a "red flower" paper-cut. The guests communicated with the teachers and students in their native languages, and the teachers and students demonstrated the skills of paper-cutting, Chinese herbal medicine and cloisonné to the guests, and also presented Chinese herbal sachets to the guests.
On December 2, the participants of the World Summit visited the GAC Science and Technology Museum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua Flying cars, super parking systems, and ultra-fast battery technology ......In the GAC Science and Technology Museum, the guests experienced various automotive "black technologies" through on-site interaction and interactive game experience, appreciated the high-level intelligent manufacturing in Guangdong, and felt the charm of Guangzhou's "smart car city".
Nansha is green and technological, very cool. Felix Michael Osik from Uganda's New Vision newspaper said of his impression of Nansha.
Overlooking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Nansha is located in its geometric center. As an important platform for comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Nansha has always undertaken an important mission. In June 2022, the "Overall Plan for Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in Nansha, Guangzhou" was issued, giving Nansha a new mission: to build a major strategic platform based in the Bay Area, cooperating with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world.
At present, Nansha is making every effort to deepen the comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao facing the world. Zheng Yongnian, chairman of the Guangzhou Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute, believes that the advantages of Nansha are not only in geographical space, but also in realizing the convergence of rules and mechanisms, and creating a market-oriented, law-based and international business environment. Nansha should take the lead in exploring and accumulating experience in key areas and key links, and lead the way to deepen cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in an all-round way.
On December 2, the staff prepared for the opening ceremony at the Nanshawan Binhai Convention Center in Guangzhou. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liwang From the geographical geometric center to the super hub of the Bay Area.
Since the establishment of Guangzhou Nansha Economic and Technological Development Zone in May 1993, after 30 years of development, Nansha has developed into a regional functional center. Today, Nansha's strategic position is constantly rising, and it is growing into a functional hub center in the Greater Bay Area, transforming into a highland for technological innovation and opening up.
Open up the "main artery" and base yourself on the key points of transportation in the Bay Area. The key to location is transportation. Nansha is focusing on opening up the "main artery" and accelerating the integration of cities in the Greater Bay Area with transportation links.
Just a few days before the opening of the 5th World Summit Summit, the main line of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor was officially opened, and the countdown to the official opening of the channel in 2024 has begun. This Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area super project will be seamlessly connected to Nansha through the South-Central Expressway, and the access time from Nansha to Shenzhen, Zhongshan and other cities will be compressed to less than half an hour.
Peng Wenli, head of the Nansha District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, said that Nansha Station, one of Guangzhou's "five main and four auxiliary" railway passenger auxiliary hubs, is under planning and construction, and the "one-hour traffic circle in the Greater Bay Area" will radiate outward with this as the center of the circle. "We strive to achieve efficient and direct connectivity between Nansha and cities in the Greater Bay Area, and continue to consolidate and enhance Nansha's dominant position as a transportation center in the Greater Bay Area. ”
Starting from Nansha Port, 153 international liner routes connect more than 200 cities and more than 400 ports around the world, as the first automatic terminal in the Greater Bay Area, Nansha Port brings together river, sea and rail multimodal transport, last year's foreign trade import and export scale of nearly 300 billion yuan, cross-border e-commerce online shopping bonded import business scale accounted for 1 5 in the country, and the radiation influence of the gateway hub has been significantly improved.
String beads into a chain to create a highland for science and technology innovation industry. As a traditional manufacturing town, Nansha is moving towards the "new", accelerating the cultivation of high-tech industries, promoting the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and creating a highly intensive "Silicon Valley effect" of talents, technology, information and capital.
This is the drone show of the world's first summit filmed at the permanent site of the Nansha International Financial Forum in Guangzhou on the evening of December 2. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liwang In Nansha, large courtyards, universities, large scientific installations, and large scientific and technological innovation platforms continue to converge. The Lijian-1 Yao-2 carrier rocket "Yijian 26 Satellite" was successfully launched, and the construction of the first deep-sea multi-functional scientific research and archaeological ship began. With the Pearl Science Park as the center, Nansha has initially formed a scientific and technological innovation platform with Nansha Science City as the main position.
At present, 25 companies have been selected into the list of unicorn enterprises in Guangzhou, and there are more than 900 high-tech enterprises. At the same time, the pilot high-end equipment industrial park and the Xinxin Industrial Park of Nansha Science and Technology Innovation Center started construction, and a number of emerging industry projects such as Nansha Wafer and Xinju Energy were completed and put into operation.
We look forward to more launch vehicles being manufactured in Nansha in the future, starting from the Greater Bay Area, to build a southern spaceport home port aimed at the 'Belt and Road' space service, and to meet the launch needs of offshore and far sea." Li Qinfeng, deputy general manager of Zhongke Aerospace (Guangzhou) Equipment Industry, said.
Cooperate with Hong Kong and Macao to build a new model of integrated development. Bay Area Youth Hub, Hong Kong-style community ......Education, life, medical care and other aspects will be concentrated in the Qingsheng hub, and a new model for the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the new stage will be promoted in depth.
Taking the "Fuxing" train, it only takes more than half an hour from Hong Kong Kowloon Station to Nansha Qingsheng High-speed Railway Station, Hong Kong young Sun Hongrui has taken root in Nansha, from an entrepreneur in cross-border e-commerce, finance and other fields to a helper, serving more entrepreneurial Hong Kong and Macao youth. "Nansha is a blessed land for Hong Kong and Macao young people to start their own businesses, and 'going north' to start a business has become a trend and trend. ”
Gold medal doctors" remote consultation, prescribe "Hong Kong medicine", Nansha residents can enjoy the strong combination of Hong Kong-style medical services. Mak Kam Kin, a family doctor who is a gold associate consultant of the Greater Bay Area Medical Group, said that the cooperation between the specialists of Nansha Hospital of Guangzhou First People's Hospital and Hong Kong doctors can provide better medical services for Hong Kong and Macao residents in Nansha.
Expand opening-up and gather global high-end development factors. The "Nansha Offshore **10" was introduced, the Nansha "Offshore Easy" comprehensive service platform was launched, and the first batch of global commodity traceability standard ...... was releasedWith the goal of institutional opening-up, Nansha is promoting a higher level of opening-up, enhancing the ability to gather global high-end resource elements, deepening international exchanges and cooperation, and continuously building a global dialogue platform. Pearl Bay International Climate Investment and Financing Conference, 2023 Young Asian Leaders Forum, International Finance Forum (IFF) 20th Anniversary Global Annual Conference, Guangzhou International Investment Annual Conference ......This year alone, global politicians, experts and scholars have gathered in Nansha many times to discuss global governance issues in new landmarks, collide with sparks of thinking, and attract global attention.
Escorting enterprises to "go to sea", Nansha is building a first-class business environment and service system. The relevant person in charge of the Nansha District Investment Promotion Bureau said that the institutional innovation index of the Nansha Free Trade Zone ranked among the top three in the country, and the investment liberalization index ranked first for two consecutive years. The relevant preferential policies have been effective, and the tax reduction and exemption amount for Hong Kong and Macao residents and enterprises in encouraged industries has exceeded 5300 million yuan.
Lin Qidi, head of the "Belt and Road" Extraterritorial Law Identification (Guangzhou) Center Platform located in Nansha Chuangxiang Bay, is the first extraterritorial law identification platform in Guangzhou, and the business covers more than 80 countries and more than 180 regions around the world, helping to improve the "soft connection" level and service efficiency of Nansha's foreign-related laws, and striving to provide high-quality legal services for Nansha to the world.
On December 2, the landmark electronic screen in Nansha, Guangzhou was lit up to welcome the world's first summit. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Hanxin to create a city of the future that everyone yearns for.
Recently, the Nansha wetland ushered in the season of large-scale migration of migratory birds. As an important migratory stopover and wintering habitat for migratory birds in the world, the black-faced spoonbill and egret are ......Tens of thousands of birds perch and forage on the tidal flats, fly and play, outlining a beautiful ecological picture.
Wandering in Nansha, citizens can feel the beauty of this ecology at all times. As the foothold of "Future Guangzhou", Nansha is unleashing the vitality of reform and the charm of innovation, and building a future city that everyone yearns for.
Here are samples of livable, workable and beautiful lives. Thanks to the affordable rent of Hong Kong and Macao youth apartments, Xiao Huiping, a young man from Hong Kong, works with peace of mind in Nansha and has no worries about housingBenefiting from the implementation of the policies of "Hong Kong cars going north" and "Macao cars going north", Hong Kong and Macao residents can come to Nansha to do business and discuss business, and they can come back in the morning and back in the evening, which is very convenient.
Outside of work, there is also the most comfortable life here. Go surfing or yachting with friends, check in at attractions such as Tianhou Temple, or take your children to experience the joy ......of urban farming picking
This is the Lingdingyang Bridge of the Shenzhong Passage taken on November 28. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua -- There is a practice of deepening reform and opening up and working hard to make progress. Seizing the major opportunity of being included in the pilot program of institutional opening-up, Nansha has deepened the docking of the rules convergence mechanism with Hong Kong and Macao, strengthened the innovation of systems and mechanisms, and promoted comprehensive integrated development.
Building a community with Hong Kong and Macao compatriots has become a reality in Nansha;The Nansha Minxin Hong Kong Children's School was opened to solve the worries of the children of Hong Kong and Macao residents working in the local areaHKUST(GZ) breaks away from the traditional setting of faculties and promotes interdisciplinary integration with an academic structure of "hub" and "domain".UMP Medical Group has set up a general outpatient clinic in Nansha to provide a more convenient ...... of Hong Kong-style medical servicesTogether with Hong Kong and Macao, Nansha is promoting the comprehensive and integrated development of education, medical care and talents through institutional innovation.
There is the capital of the future, a dynamic and innovative plan. Recently, Pony.ai, a unicorn company in Nansha District, announced that it has obtained the first autonomous driving truck platooning test license in Guangzhou, and is allowed to conduct L4 platoon autonomous driving tests on Guangzhou's open roads. According to Mo Luyi, vice president of Pony.ai, Nansha is a highland for policy innovation in the development of the domestic autonomous driving industry, which creates a good environment for enterprises to innovate technologies and promote product applications.
A large number of strategic emerging industries aimed at the future are thriving here. Geely Technology Group's commercial aerospace headquarters settled in Nansha, and the first phase of the Zhongke Aerospace Flight Technology Industrialization Base was delivered ......According to the data, the added value of Nansha's strategic emerging industries in 2022 will be 8305.9 billion yuan, accounting for 36 percent of regional GDP9%。
The newly approved Guangzhou Nansha space plan clearly states that the development vision of Nansha will integrate the ocean city, the hub city, the people's city and the future city. Guo Yonghang, Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that Nansha is the future of Guangzhou and the future of the Greater Bay Area. Guangzhou will cooperate with Hong Kong and Macao to build Nansha into the main position of Guangzhou's high-quality development, a new engine, a shining pearl of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the essence of Chinese-style modernization.