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Original title: Link of 5 billion levels of Twin Cities, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will work together to create a “twin city” with global influence in the Greater Bay Area
On December 18, the “Nanfang Daily” published the “Recommendations of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee on Formulation of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of Guangdong Province and the Long-Term Goals for 2035” ( hereinafter, the “Recommendations”)).
The “Proposal” proposes to strengthen the core functions of the motor by deepening the “two-city” link between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Promote Guangzhou and Shenzhen to plan the layout of urban functions and modern industrial development based on the overall situation, improve the development link mechanism, comprehensively deepen strategic coordination and strategic cooperation, and build a “twin city” with global influence in the Bay Area, and amplify the effects of conduction and radiation demonstration.
In the past one or two months, the link between the two cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen has been a hot topic in the regional economy. Guangdong’s “Proposal” for the “XIV Five-Year Plan” this time has a broader description of the link between the two cities. Cooperation has reached a new level.
On December 21, the full text of the “Proposals of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee on Formulation of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Guangzhou National Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Goals for 2035” was published. It was also mentioned that the deepening and industrial planning of Shenzhen The project design is coupled and the industrial chain is complemented to build a financial center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao bay area to form a world-class industrial group .
Also as a first-rate city, the distance between Guangzhou and Shenzhen is only about 100 kilometers, and the economies of scale are similar, but each has its own strengths. The strong combination of the two cities will form the most dazzling “twin cities” in China, which will not only help the two cities to achieve further development, but also enhance their radiation conduction effect throughout the Greater Bay Area. and even in Guangdong province.
High-spec twin cities
In China, Guangshen is undoubtedly the combination of the highest specifications that constitute the “Twin Cities” within a province. In terms of economic scale, the total GDP of Guangzhou and Shenzhen exceeded 5 trillion in 2019, accounting for 47% of the entire Guangdong province.
Due to the proximity of geographical location and economic strength, there is collaboration and competition between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. With the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the construction of the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, government-led exchanges and cooperation between the two places have obviously become become more frequent than ever.
On September 5 last year, Guangzhou and Shenzhen signed the “Guangzhou and Shenzhen Deepening Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement” in Nansha, Guangzhou, marking a new stage of Guangzhou-Shenzhen cooperation. It is worth noting that this moment is only less than a month away from the official promulgation of the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Support for Shenzhen to Build a Pilot Demonstration Zone for Socialism with Chinese characteristics “.
On October 22 of this year, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen “Two-City Links” Forum was held in Shenzhen, which was jointly sponsored by the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal government. On the day of the forum, the relevant departments of the two venues signed cooperation agreements in seven areas, including scientific and technological innovation, smart connected automotive industry, smart equipment industry, biomedical industry, infrastructure, business environment and the free trade zone.
The “Recommendations” clearly established that to comprehensively strengthen industrial cooperation, coordinate the deployment of a series of important technological infrastructures and jointly implement a series of large projects in emerging strategic industries. Accelerate the promotion of deep cooperation in the fields of ecological and environmental protection, medicine and health, education and culture, and social security, and strengthen effective links in the governance of large cities and the creation of a world-class business environment. Work together to strengthen the linkage of national and international dual-cycle functions and jointly enhance the supporting role of the strategic fulcrum to build a new pattern of development.
Sun Bushu, vice president of the South China Urban Research Association, told the 21st Century Business Herald that an opportunity for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen twin city link is for Shenzhen to upgrade to a pilot demonstration zone, and the two places cooperate. , including full support from Guangdong province for the construction of a pilot demonstration zone in Shenzhen. To support Shenzhen with equal efforts to support the construction of Guangzhou as an international metropolis, to some extent, is to rebalance the relationship between Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Lin Jiang, a professor in the Department of Economics at Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University and deputy director of the Pearl River Delta Research Center, Hong Kong and Macao, said the two cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen have a lot of complementary space. In the context of the construction of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, these two leaders Naturally, cities should also be integrated, in order to better promote other cities to accelerate their integration into the industrial belt of the metropolitan area.
Guangshen “dismantle the wall”
With the top-level design, what is the specific path or breakthrough for the link between Guangzhou and Shenzhen?
At the aforementioned Guangzhou-Shenzhen “Two-City Linkage” forum, Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Secretary Wang Weizhong once said that he will promote docking and cooperation in the fields of industry, technology, education, healthcare. , finance and infrastructure in a comprehensive way to build a closer and more efficient link development mechanism; Zhang Shuofu, secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, said Guangzhou took the initiative to accept the radiant momentum of Shenzhen’s reforms and improve the reform linkage mechanism to facilitate the flow of personnel, goods, capital, technology and other elements to jointly build a world-class business environment.
The “Proposal” proposed this time to promote the construction of Shenzhen pilot demonstration zone with reform and innovation, and to support Guangzhou’s construction of an international metropolis with equal strength in supporting Shenzhen. Prior to this, the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission had proposed to promote the provincial authorities to assign the provincial management authority granted to Shenzhen to Guangzhou in accordance with the law.
Song Ding, deputy chairman of the China Committee of Experts on Urban Economics, told the 21st Century Business Herald that this is actually a link implemented within the policy framework.
In Song Ding’s view, the starting point and the advancing point of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen link lies in “removing the wall.” This is mainly reflected in two aspects. One is transportation. Guangzhou is the largest transportation hub in southern China. The input city value is very prominent. However, Shenzhen is also a very large city with a population of more than 20 million. It is connected to various high-speed rail and aviation locations. There are still many “blocking points”.
The second is the industry. Shenzhen has performed well in the new economy in recent years. Guangzhou is relatively inferior and lacks innovative leading companies with leadership and leadership roles. In this case, Shenzhen can play a certain role in driving new industries.
“The demolition of the wall means breaking the respective barriers of both sides, passing on the industrial advantages from Shenzhen to Guangzhou and the entrance advantages from Guangzhou to Shenzhen,” said Song Ding.
Lin Jiang believes that high-quality development includes both the transformation and improvement of traditional industries and the formation of emerging industries. There is an inherent connection between the two. Shenzhen is stronger than the latter, while Guangzhou, as the trading capital of the millennium, has a relatively complete supply chain. A solid and solid foundation of traditional industries, with enormous upgrade potential.
“The cooperation between Guangshen and Shenzhen should not be limited to the introduction of one or two projects, but to the realization of the interaction of the industrial chain. The advantages formed by this cooperation may not be matched by other cities in the Bay Area. Lin Jiang said.
Sun Bushu cited several specific suggestions to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter. For example, the establishment of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Industrial Cooperation Park in Nansha, Guangzhou, the implementation of mutual recognition of the establishment of points between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the promotion of medical institutions in Guangzhou to open branches in Shenzhen. Shenzhen joins the tender to host major national and global conferences and competitions.
Sun Bushu said the two places can explore multi-level cooperation. In some respects, Guangzhou and Shenzhen may have little chance of winning a single-soldier combat, but the joint strength between Guangzhou and Shenzhen will increase their competitiveness.
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen link will not only promote the further development of the two cities, but will also inevitably boost other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, whether in transportation, industry or other areas. The aforementioned “Proposal of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on the formulation of the fourteenth five-year plan for the national economic and social development of Guangzhou and the long-term goals for 2035” proposed to promote the development of ties with the metropolitan area of Shenzhen and deepen cooperation with Zhongshan, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Cities such as Zhuhai, Dongguan and Huizhou have cooperated to promote the coordinated link between the east and west sides of the Pearl River estuary.
Song Ding said that Guangzhou-Shenzhen and the surrounding cities will form a shared and co-prosperous bond, and the overall improvement will eventually achieve the community-style development of the Greater Bay Area. This is a general direction.
(Author: Wang Fan Editor: Qi Week)
