Today is the fifth anniversary of the official release of the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area". Over the past five years, the Greater Bay Area has continued to add bricks and tiles to the blueprint drawn by the General Secretary of the People's Republic of China, and has become an important part of the national strategic development pattern. Where the Pearl River is flowing and the South China Sea is holding pearls, the world-class urban agglomeration in the Greater Bay Area is shining with vigor and prosperity, and the people of the Greater Bay Area are chasing development opportunities with a positive and high-spirited appearance.
As early as the early days of reform and opening up, the industrial cooperation system of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has begun to take shape. With the same historical geography and more than 40 years of experience in cooperation and exchanges, concepts such as "Greater Pearl River Delta", "Pan-Pearl River Cooperation" and "One Bay and Three Zones" have long been included in the local and even national strategic planning agendas. In October 2018, the general secretary of the first class emphasized during his inspection in Guangdong that the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should be regarded as a great opportunity and a big article for Guangdong's reform and opening up, and it should be done well. On 18 February 2019, with the promulgation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the development of the Greater Bay Area began to be comprehensively promoted under the planning of the Party and the state, and the ties between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have become closer. For residents living in the 11 cities of the Greater Bay Area, compared with the rapid economic and social development, the more tangible experience is the improvement of their sense of identity, and they now have a common identity - people in the Greater Bay Area.
In order to make it easier for people in the Greater Bay Area to work and live, over the years, the Greater Bay Area has paved roads and bridges, moved mountains and reclaimed the sea, and built super projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor. 23 high-speed railways and 40 major intercity railways have shortened and shortened the distance between cities, and countless people and goods have realized internal circulation in the Greater Bay Area on the track. At the same time, through the world's bay area, which has the strongest throughput of 100 million tons of regional ports and three international aviation hubs, the Greater Bay Area has accelerated regional exchanges with foreign countries and formed an economic external circulation. With the support of 360° three-dimensional "hard connectivity" of sea, land and air, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are gradually integrated in physical space, and people in the Greater Bay Area can freely move south and north, and work and live across cities and borders in the "one-hour living circle". It can be said that this is the new era of the Greater Bay Area version of "If you want to get rich, build roads first".
In the special context of "one country, two systems, three customs territories and three currencies", in order to make the development of the Greater Bay Area smoother and the life of the people in the Greater Bay Area more comfortable, in addition to "hard connectivity", "soft connectivity" is also needed. Over the years, mainland cities, Hong Kong and Macao have been trying to break down institutional barriers, deepen exchanges and cooperation, and strive to advance from mutual benefit to true connectivity. In order to start a business and do things more intelligently, the commercial registration of Hong Kong and Macao enterprises has realized "one network"; In order to make it more efficient for patients to seek medical treatment, drugs and medical devices listed in Hong Kong and Macao can be used in accordance with regulations; In order to facilitate cross-border consumption, undifferentiated payment services have been popularized in the three places.
In addition to software and hardware connectivity, a better life is inseparable from intelligent manufacturing and scientific innovation. The Greater Bay Area is not only a free and inclusive frontier of openness, a happy place to work and live, but also a treasure land for science and technology innovation to gather wisdom and talents. At present, more than 50 State Key Laboratories have been established in the Greater Bay Area, and major scientific research platforms and enterprise innovation centers have been gathered in the "Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao" science and technology innovation corridors. Here, Huawei continues to break through the technological blockade and proudly put China's "5G" on the screen, driverless taxis drive on the streets of Nansha, Guangzhou, and the fastest pure electric supercar with "zero hundred acceleration" was born in GAC Aion. The improvement of the level of scientific and technological innovation has not only brought about the transformation from "Made in China" to "Intelligent Manufacturing in China", but also the lives of people in the Greater Bay Area have become better and better in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
From hard-core infrastructure to institutional docking, to in-depth scientific and technological innovation cooperation, the rapid development of the Greater Bay Area has not only brought about industrial transformation and upgrading, scientific and technological progress and innovation, but also the increase in every data and indicator has been implemented in all aspects of production and life, and transformed into bits and pieces that benefit the people. Hard, soft and intelligent connectivity complement each other, so that the people living here in the Greater Bay Area can truly realize the connection of hearts.
With the common yearning for a better life, the future of the people of the Greater Bay Area will be more splendid in the ordinary life of sunrise and sunset, and the prospects of the Greater Bay Area will be more magnificent in the changes of the times.