Scitech Zone To Spur GBA

Shenzhen, Hong Kong aims to pool resources and talents to raise the level of development.

China's latest development plan for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Park will create a new impetus for cooperation between the two cities, which will support the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, he said. .

He said the project proposed by China's Cabinet in the State Council will allow Shenzhen and Hong Kong to play key functional roles in the Greater Bay Area, thus helping to transform the region into a global innovation hub and global automotive hub. Engine development

His comments came after the State Council developed a plan to develop a high-quality Shenzhen Park in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Hetao Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone.

The park will create an effective integrated technology innovation system between Shenzhen and Hong Kong by 2025, and the open cooperation in technology innovation between the two cities is expected to bring positive results. By 2035, according to the plan, the joint innovation structure of Shenzhen and Hong Kong will be fully established, which will become a world-class scientific research center.

Guo Lanfeng, a senior official of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "The new program will enable Shenzhen to establish a science and technology management system, comply with international innovation laws and promote international collaborative innovation."

"It is also important to link the advantages of Hong Kong's technological innovation and financial openness with the entire industrial chain of the Pearl River Delta region, thereby contributing to the establishment of Hong Kong as a global innovation and technology hub." He said at the press conference. Press release at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

To fully implement the newly released development plan, Sun Qiang, vice governor of Guangdong Province, said the province will speed up the creation of a list of key tasks and responsibilities.

Secretary-General of the HKSAR Government Administration Chan Kouqi said Hong Kong will continue its active cooperation with Shenzhen by carrying out cross-border activities to promote the flow of talents, goods and information. Thus enabling the collaboration zone to act as a bridge for high innovation and technology collaboration between the two cities.

“Having strong support from the mainland and connecting to the world will allow Hong Kong to take full advantage of its unique advantages. This, in turn, will help develop an international technology and innovation hub in the Greater Bay Area,” he said. .

The Cooperation Zone is located on the border of Shenzhen's Futian District and Hong Kong, covering an area of ​​3.02 square kilometers in Shenzhen Heto and one square kilometer in Hong Kong.

Regarding the Hong Kong part of the Cooperation Zone, Chan said preliminary planning for the first phase has been completed and the first three buildings of the first phase will be completed on schedule by the end of 2024.

Ji Leifeng, deputy director of the Regional Development Department of the China Development Institute in Hong Kong (Macau), hopes to see detailed implementation plans for the new document, adding that more efforts should be made to promote and promote initiatives such as creating and promoting cross-border creative projects. Financing technology and accelerating the planning and construction of Hong Kong's parks in a collaborative environment.