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In February of the Chinese New Year, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao ports are bustling, and passengers from "north to south" pass through this cross-border to visit relatives, travel and shop. "In the morning, I met friends and had morning tea in Guangzhou, in the afternoon I bought gift boxes in Shenzhen, in the evening I watched a fireworks display in Hong Kong, and the next day I went to Macao to watch the parade ......Jiang Ying, who works in Guangzhou and calls herself a "Bay Area native", introduced her itinerary during the Spring Festival to reporters.
This is a vivid epitome of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's "smooth roads, prosperous people, and prosperous wealth". According to the data, more than 2 million Hong Kong and Macao residents visited Guangdong via Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai in the first five days of the Spring Festival holiday (the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), and about 2.1 million mainland tourists visited Hong Kong and Macao in the first seven days of the holiday (from the first day to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year). With the continuous expansion of soft and hard connectivity in the Greater Bay Area, the two-way flow of "northbound and southbound", and the interweaving of capital flow and logistics, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is increasingly showing a new scene of deep integration.
Landscape of Zhongshan urban area in Guangdong. Photo by Zhang Jianlai (Xinhua News Agency).
Hard connectivity" is getting better and better.
At the beginning of the new year, the construction site of the Shenzhong Passage is in full swing. Workers are in full swing to put the finishing touches on the project, accelerating towards the completion and opening to traffic in 2024. The world-class cross-sea project connects both sides of the Pearl River and will reduce the commuting time from Zhongshan to Shenzhen from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
Not only the Shenzhong Channel, but also the Shiziyang, Huangmaohai and other cross-river and cross-sea passages are also stepping up construction. At present, "connectivity" has become the theme of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the interconnection of transportation infrastructure has provided strong support for the efficient and smooth economic circulation of the Greater Bay Area.
In 2018, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway was put into operation, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, the Nansha Bridge was put into use in 2019, and the Guangzhou-Shantou-Shantou high-speed railway was officially put into operation in 2023. The policies of "Macao cars going north" and "Hong Kong cars going north" have been implemented one after another, and the interconnection and integrated development of the Greater Bay Area has taken a key step. Gongbei Port, Hengqin Port and Qingmao Port have implemented facilitation measures of "one queuing, one inspection, and one release", allowing customs clearance to enter a new stage of "30 seconds of cross-border Zhuhai and Macao" ......Today's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with more than 2,500 kilometers of railways and 5,000 kilometers of expressways, is becoming more and more dense in high-speed rail, intercity, subway, high-speed and other transportation networks.
Now you can take the high-speed train for 15 minutes to Shenzhen's bustling business district, shopping, eating and drinking experience is very good, and occasionally we will go to enjoy a massage and watch a movie. Mr. Li, who lives in Hong Kong and takes his family to Shenzhen from time to time on weekends, said.
"Soft Unicom" is accelerating.
While the "hard connectivity" is improving, the "soft connectivity" of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is also accelerating, achieving a great leap forward in five years.
In the financial sector, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect, Cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect, Southbound Bond Connect and Swap Connect have been implemented, the financial markets of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have been interconnected, and the two-way opening up of the market has been continuously improved. In terms of standard convergence, with the recent announcement of the second batch of "Bay Area Standards" list, the "Bay Area Standards" have covered 183 items in 32 fields such as food, transportation, and elderly care, and "integration" has further entered residents' lives; In terms of business environment, the construction of the "Digital Bay Area" has been launched, 108 government service items have been implemented in cross-border communication between Guangdong and Hong Kong, the "Bay Area Connect" project has been implemented in depth, the "one thing, three places, one policy, and one regulation" has been further promoted, and the business registration of Hong Kong and Macao enterprises has been implemented through "one network". In the field of people's livelihood, in 2021, the "Bay Area Social Security Connect" was launched, allowing Hong Kong and Macao residents to enjoy Guangdong's social security services "without leaving the country", and in the same year, the "Hong Kong and Macao Medicines and Medical Devices Connect" policy was implemented to realize the ...... of resource exchange in the Greater Bay Area in terms of medical care
According to the data, 34 Hong Kong and Macao residents are currently insured in Guangdong670,000 person-times, receiving 4720,000 people. By the end of 2023, there are a total of 67 banks in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao920,000 investors participated in the Cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect pilot, and a total of 128 related funds were remitted100 million RMB. As of January 8, 2024, a total of 19 designated medical institutions have been approved through the "Hong Kong and Macao Medicines and Medical Devices Connect" policy, and 56 drugs and medical devices from Hong Kong and Macao are urgently needed for clinical use, benefiting a total of 4,509 people.
Integrate into the overall development of the country.
Wearing a mainland lawyer's robe and a lawyer's badge, since obtaining a lawyer's practice certificate (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) in 2022, Hong Kong young Xie Qingmian has started a new career, "There is a huge legal service market here, and the future development will be very good." ”
More than 380 Hong Kong and Macao lawyers like Tse have been admitted to practise in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area. They are familiar with the different legal systems of Hong Kong, Macao and the Mainland, and are able to play an active role in handling cross-border legal affairs. In eight fields, including doctors, teachers and tour guides, more than 3,200 professionals from Hong Kong and Macao have obtained registered practice qualifications in the Mainland.
Lo Wai-kwok, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that Hong Kong young people have limited space for local development, and the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area will bring them more development opportunities, which will also help to deeply solve the livelihood problems of Hong Kong and Macao, broaden the living space of Hong Kong and Macao residents, and deepen the identity of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots as the motherland.
With the deepening of the convergence of rules and mechanisms in the Greater Bay Area, the exchanges and exchanges between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have never been closer, and the development of the Greater Bay Area has shown a thriving scene. Zhu Wei, deputy director of Guangdong Province and executive deputy director of the Provincial Greater Bay Area Office, said that in 2023, about 53 million Hong Kong residents will go north to the mainland, and Hong Kong and Macao residents' sense of identity with the Greater Bay Area will be further enhanced.
Zhu Wei said that he will further promote cooperation in education, medical care, social security and other fields in the Greater Bay Area, break the bottleneck of integrated development, and enhance the sense of gain and happiness of the people in the three places. "In particular, we will do our best to facilitate Hong Kong and Macao residents to come to Guangdong for development, whether it is to buy a house, see a doctor, go to school, buy social security, employment, practice or start a business, so as to enrich the practice of 'one country, two systems' and support the integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall development of the country." ”
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