What happened when experts from the National Development and Reform Commission said that Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area would build a world-class urban agglomeration?

China news agency, Beijing, March 23 (Reporter Yang) The Secretary-General of the Academic Committee of the National Development and Reform Commission recently said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service that urban agglomeration is the main form of China's new urbanization strategy in the future. Studying and formulating the development plan of Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will help to clarify the development orientation of urban agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta region, which is expected to make the region take the lead in building a world-class urban agglomeration and a global innovation center.

During the National People's Congress (NPC) from 2065438 to 2007, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's government work report attracted much attention. It is reported that the regional economic aggregate has surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area. Then, as an important economic growth pole of China, what functions can it be endowed with in the future?

Zhang Yansheng said that at present, the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is based on Pan-Pearl River Delta cooperation, covering nine provinces and regions in the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, accounting for about one third of the national economic output.

Zhang Yansheng pointed out that innovation and development is not only the new normal of China's economy, but also the starting point of supply-side structural reform. As the "highland" of China's R&D investment intensity (the ratio of R&D expenditure to GDP), Guangdong Province has the advantages of capital, technology and talents, which can turn Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into an innovation center in the Asia-Pacific region and even the world.

The 20 15 national statistical bulletin on science and technology expenditure released at the end of 20 16 shows that the R&D expenditure intensity in China is 2.07% and that in Guangdong is 2.47%. Zhang Yansheng said that in this data, Guangdong, led by Shenzhen, has greatly surpassed Hong Kong.

He further analyzed that innovation and development have become a global trend, and Shenzhen has the potential to become a global science and technology innovation center; Hong Kong has developed financial and modern service industries, and other cities in the Pearl River Delta region are famous for high-end manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing and serial manufacturing. The development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is expected to become a gathering place of global innovation, modern services and high-quality resources in the future.

Zhang Yansheng pointed out that from the perspective of global competitiveness, China's new economic normal and supply-side structural reform should introduce Hong Kong's international advantages through regional cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and how Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can effectively combine the high-end value of Hong Kong and Macao with the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta. This is a big article.

To this end, he suggested that in order to build a global platform for high-end talents, high-end resource elements and high-end markets, the central government needs to set up a coordinated mechanism for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to plan the long-term development of the region through the overall situation. Interconnection of infrastructure, smooth financing and trade need communication of local government policies first, and the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is more complicated than the cooperation in this area in the past.

Zhang Yansheng said that this involves the great practice of "one country, two systems", which requires all parties to think hard and solve difficult problems.