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Crossing the Shenzhen River to Create a New World: This Year of Hong Kong’s Youth in the Greater Bay Area
Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, Jan 2, Cable Title: Crossing the Shenzhen River to Create a New World, This Year for YMCA in Greater Bay Area
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Last year, under the double impact of the aftershocks of the “Regulatory Amendment Storm” and the new corona pneumonia epidemic, Hong Kong’s economic development suffered setbacks. Also this year, with political support and encouragement from the state and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, more and more Hong Kong youth can be seen in the Pearl River Delta, where infrastructure and services are becoming more complete.
These Hong Kong youths who have crossed the Shenzhen River and embraced the Greater Bay Area are constantly reaping policy dividends and constantly ushering in development opportunities.
New support
Hong Kong young man Chen Yongkang, who is engaged in the garment business between Guangdong and Hong Kong, is deeply moved by the ever-changing transportation convenience of the Greater Bay Area: the time between Hong Kong and Foshan is has been reduced to “before unimaginable”.
In 2005, Chen Yongkang, who was a clothing wholesaler in Hong Kong, met his girlfriend who was engaged in buying clothes on the mainland via the Internet. Their business is getting bigger and bigger and their relationship is getting warmer, and they eventually become husband and wife. “Little by little we have become members of the family of partners,” he said.
Later, Chen Yongkang, who had a little success in Hong Kong, wanted to continue expanding the mainland market, so he came to Foshan with his wife to settle.
“It used to take 8 hours to get from my home in Foshan to my home in Hong Kong,” Chen Yongkang said. Later, there were more and more buses, and the station even went down the stairs to his house. After the opening of the Nansha Bridge, the number of buses from Foshan to Hong Kong was reduced to three. Many hours by car.
The rapid monitoring of the infrastructure has provided strong support for the construction of the Greater Bay Area. In August 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a response on the construction plan of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Interurban Railway to promote the realization of the “one-hour life circle”; On August 26, Liantang / Xiangyuanwei port was opened to promote the development of Guangdong-Hong Kong. The flow of people and goods increased.
2020 is full of uncertainties and shocks. Under the influence of the epidemic, Hong Kong companies and young entrepreneurs in cities in the Greater Bay Area have encountered some difficulties. However, after the introduction of a series of policies to facilitate Hong Kong businesses, all of them have enjoyed a better and more convenient business environment and gained more room for development.
“The Greater Bay Area has slowly started to form an industrial chain and the business environment has also improved.” Speaking about the feelings of starting a business in the Greater Bay Area this year, said Liang Zibin, a young man who founded Foshan Aixing Intelligent Technology Company.
With the deepening of cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong, local governments at all levels in the Metropolitan Bay Area are also actively optimizing service procedures and improving service levels. Liang Zibin has the most intuitive feeling: “The government has greatly simplified the approval process and it is obvious that mainland China attaches great importance to improving the business environment.”
New opportunities
The year 2020 that has just passed has an extraordinary significance for Mo: Hengli Industrial Park, which has operated for many years in Longgang, Shenzhen, was officially converted into a technological innovation industrial park by the Shenzhen Municipal Government. “Thank the government for recognizing our contribution and supporting the further development of the park. We will cultivate more high-tech companies,” he said.
2020 is the thirteenth year that Wang Guanmo has worked hard in Shenzhen. In the beginning, Wang Guanmo was engaged in the garment trade industry in Shenzhen. In order to follow the trend of industrial transformation, it established a property management company in 2015 to provide park management, security, legal services and other services for companies entering Hengli Industrial Park, and attract high-tech companies to enter the park.
In February 2019, the development plan outline for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was officially published. Wang Guanmo enthusiastically discovered the enormous development potential it contains, so he frequently participated in related activities in the Greater Bay Area and cooperated with Hong Kong youth on the mainland, hoping to attract more young people to the continent to explore opportunities.
Today, the construction area of the industrial park operated by Wang Guanmo is about 120,000 square meters, and more than 20 well-known domestic and foreign high-tech enterprises have been established.
Compared to Wang Guanmo, Liang Zibin’s time on the mainland was much shorter. In 2017, recommended by a friend, he came to Foshan as CEO of a technology company and then decided to start his own business in Foshan.
“At first I thought it was easy to start a business,” he said with a smile, but soon discovered that the laws, finances and policies in mainland China are completely different from those in Hong Kong. You need to learn to digest and understand government documents and train to operate. Companies, while studying various regulations on the continent.
Talking about the original intention to start a business, Chen Yongkang said: “I had never thought of starting a company before. Later, Nanhai district, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and the youth entrepreneurship and innovation base abroad They helped me a lot. Now I have a business license and can do more in the future. Top. “
The innovation incubator in Foshan helped Liang Zibin, who was just starting out. Nanhai District, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Base for Foreign Students helped him get in touch with experts in various fields, and provided consultation and assistance in the areas where he was most concerned about government policies, laws and regulations. “With their help, starting a business has become more convenient,” said Liang Zibin.
Zhou Wengang, deputy director of the Department of Chinese Economic Research at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said that local governments at various levels in Bay Area cities have introduced a series of measures to help Hong Kong residents and Macau to start business on the mainland and improve the business environment, which has boosted Hong Kong companies and young entrepreneurs. Confidence to explore the domestic market on the continent.
New expectations
For the future, Hong Kong youth who started their businesses in the Greater Bay Area expressed their expectations and visions. They firmly believe that once the shadow of the new corona pneumonia has passed, the development of the Greater Bay Area will usher in a better tomorrow.
As a person of the past, Chen Yongkang believes that there is still a problem of “dislocation” in the perception that young people have of the mainland. “It’s difficult for young people to appreciate the speed of development in mainland China if they don’t come here.”
In order to bring convenience to young Hong Kong entrepreneurs in Shenzhen, Wang Guanmo transformed a building in Hengli Industrial Park into a business base of approximately 7,000 square meters and built a cultural and creative park in Longgang. “Once the epidemic is over, we will invite young people to settle in.”
“The unique advantages of Hong Kong and Macao in foreign trade allow us to promote products developed in mainland China to the international market more quickly and conveniently. I am full of confidence in the future of the company,” said Liang Zibin.
Liang Zibin also has his own expectations: “The qualifications obtained in Hong Kong were not universal on the mainland. Now some of them can be used in Shenzhen. I hope to be able to pass in Foshan and other parts of the Greater Bay Area in the future. “.
Huang Jinhui, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is fully confident in the joint development prospects of Hong Kong and the cities of the Greater Bay Area. He said that in terms of innovation and technology, Hong Kong has a strong basic scientific research capacity and can attract many international talents; it has advantages in professional services such as finance and law. The entire Bay Area has broader space and stronger scientific research transformation capabilities.
“As Hong Kong and the cities of the Greater Bay Area develop hand in hand, it will promote the vigorous development of more new industries and new business formats, and inject more vitality into the country’s economic development,” Huang Jinhui said.
Wu Xueming, chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Association, said that in the future, Hong Kong companies and youth will continue to focus on business opportunities in the mainland market and take advantage of the advantages unique to Hong Kong to find a setting with more room for development. (Reporters Zhou Wenqi, Zhu Yuxuan, Hong Zehua, Liu Haodong, Xu Xintao)
【Edit: Bai Jiayi】
