Hong Kong's 25th Anniversary of the Motherland • Focus on the Greater Bay Area ｜ The "One Hour Hour Life Circle" of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area of Hong Kong citizens

On September 23, 2018, the Guangshen and Hong Kong high -speed railway opened the entire operation. The G5711 high -speed rail train flight attendant from Shenzhen North Station to the West Kowloon Station of Hong Kong showed the commemorative card. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian

"The Guangzhou -Shenzhen -Hong Kong high -speed rail is opened to traffic. It is less than 20 minutes from the West Kowloon in Hong Kong to Shenzhen to Futian in Shenzhen. . "Hong Kong youth Zhan Peixun, a Hong Kong young man who is developing unmanned projects in Shenzhen, has remembered the excitement of the opening of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou -Shenzhen -Hong Kong high -speed rail and the Hong Kong -Zhuhai -Macao Bridge.

"Playing the" one -hour life circle "in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area" "Shenzhen Entrepreneurship, Hong Kong Life" ... The prospects of the integration of the two places inspire entrepreneurs like Zhan Peixun. In 2020, he resigned from Hong Kong's work and completed the transformation from investors to founders. His driverless projects are mainly used in the transportation of closed parks. From the laboratory of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to the realization of mass production, the company now has a team of more than 150 people and has obtained three rounds of financing. The product has been in Guangzhou Port. Institute in the park.

Miss Lin, a Hong Kong citizen who graduated from mainland university, has been used to buying and buying online. Affected by the persistence of the epidemic, many Hong Kong citizens, like Miss Lin, experience the convenience between the cities of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area in the "fingers".

"Mask, disinfection wet paper towels, these online shopping is cheap and fast." Mr. Shu, who is old and small, has a deep understanding of the advantages of online shopping in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. He told reporters that as long as Shenzhen has a warehouse, even during the epidemic period, it is only two days from the order to receiving the goods. He even bought rice online, "Mainland's round -grain pearl rice mouth is good, and Hong Kong often cannot be bought during the epidemic."

"I have always hoped to invest in RMB products in the Mainland. The" cross -border financial management "allows me to effectively experience the convenience of financial interoperability in the Greater Bay Area." On October 19, 2021, Ms. Tong, a citizen of Hong Kong with the help of the Nansha Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Contact the ICBC Asian catfish pouring branch near the home and become the first customer of the "cross -border financial management" business.

"The demand for cross -border markets in the Greater Bay Area is too great." Speaking of the market in the Greater Bay Area, Chen Wen, general manager of the personal finance and wealth management department of BOC Hong Kong, is very excited.

"In order to meet the market demand, BOC requires 'All members must do cross -border business', including the front desk service staff at the end of the business. We have a total of 187 branches and 3,500 colleagues in the Greater Bay Area. We must understand the cross -border business. "Chen Wen said.

He recalled that in the past, Hong Kong and Guangdong were mostly simple exchanges between abortion, logistics, and capital flows. There were many single tourists, and only simple currency exchange and loans were exchanged. With the introduction of the "Development Plan for the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area" in 2019, exchanges between the two places are becoming more and more diverse. There are more and more needs such as retirement, medical care, school, and home business, and the demand for integration is getting higher and higher.

For the "one -hour life circle" that appeared between the city of Hong Kong and the mainland of the Greater Bay Area, Chen Wenshen realized: "Sometimes I have to go to the Mainland because of work. In recent years, the Mainland has developed rapidly. Buying things and eating are all electronic payment. "

To this end, BOC Hong Kong launched the "easy opening" service in the Greater Bay Area. After Hong Kong customers bind the mainstream mainstream mobile phone electronic payment applications in the Mainland, they consume and take taxis in the Mainland. Diversified needs such as online shopping, transfer, and remittances.

According to statistics, as of the end of 2021, the number of Hong Kong customers who opened a mainland account in China Hong Kong increased by 41%year -on -year, close to 170,000 households. The Greater Bay Area corporate loans increased by 9.8%year -on -year, and the science and technology enterprise loan increased by 8.3%year -on -year. At present, the number of BOC Pay (electronic wallet) customers has exceeded 1 million.

"These significant growth numbers are enough to illustrate the market prospects of the Greater Bay Area, which is enough to show that Hong Kong residents' recognition of the Greater Bay Area is quite large." Chen Wen's energy was firm.

"The industries I have contacted all the influences of the development of the Greater Bay Area." Li Lingde, the partner of the capital market development of China Hong Kong, said, "Take us as an example. Among them, 7 offices in 6 large bay areas including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Hong Kong, and Macau have set up 7 offices, and 2 offices have been established in the past year. "

According to Li Lingde, the employment trend survey report released by KPMA in April showed that the proportion of Hong Kong interviewees was willing to move to other cities in the Greater Bay Area to increase year by year. It was 52% in 2019 and 72% in 2022.

Similar to previous years, career and industry development prospects (63%), and convenient transportation (62%) are the main reasons why talents move from Hong Kong to other cities in the Greater Bay Area. In addition, higher salary (54%) replaced a broader work vision (50%) in 2022 to become the third main reason.

This is the Liantang/Xiangyuan Port (drone photo) taken on August 26, 2020. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang Photo

Behind the formation of the "one -hour life circle" in the mainland of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, a number of major cross -border infrastructure has been completed and used in recent years: the Hong Kong -Zhuhai -Macao Bridge, the Guangzhou -Shenzhen -Hong Kong high -speed rail, and the provincial provincial channels of the highway to Hong Kong.

Clearance is faster and more efficient.The Liantang/Xiangyuan Port is officially opened, and the Huanggang Port Reconstruction Project has accelerated; the Shenzhen Bay Port Cargo Inspection Channel has achieved 24 hours of customs clearance, and innovative measures such as "cooperation inspection" and "one place and two inspections" have been effective. Hong Kong and the Mainland are moving towards"Seamless connection".Fortunately, Zhan Peixun's original choice, even if there was an epidemic, the complementary advantages of Hong Kong and Shenzhen still made his entrepreneurial project grow rapidly."Shenzhen has a good entrepreneurial space, Hong Kong has the support of scientific research and the advantages of back -end financial services." He believes that the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area will bring more opportunities for growth.

Source: Xinhuanet

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