With new missions being given and new platforms being built, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is striving to promote systematic opening-up. In order to further promote the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area opening up and cooperation, September 14-15, the first Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area Development Business Conference was held in Macao, the theme of the conference is "big bay area, big strategy, big exchange, big development", the conference by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, The conference was co-organized by CCPIT, Guangdong Provincial People's Government, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and Macao Special Administrative Region Government.

CCPIT spokesperson Sun Xiao said at the regular press conference in August that CCPIT conscientiously implements the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important instructions on building the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area into a strategic fulcrum of the new development pattern, a demonstration site for high-quality development, and a leading site for Chinese modernization, and that it is willing to work together with the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in an effort to make the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Business Conference on the Development of the Greater Bay Area into an important forum for the global business and industry community to discuss the construction of the Greater Bay Area, investment and development, and to discuss the development of the Greater Bay Area. It is a high-level, high-level, internationalized exchange and cooperation platform for the global business community to plan for the construction of the Greater Bay Area, invest in the development of the Greater Bay Area, and create the future of the Greater Bay Area together.

According to the introduction, this conference includes opening ceremony, results release, topic discussion, city promotion, business forum (negotiation), welcome dinner and visit research and other 7 links, focusing on digital economy, green finance, cultural tourism exhibition, connectivity and other hot topics of concern to the Chinese and foreign business community for exchange and discussion, and released "further promote the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area international business cooperation Macao Initiative".

"All along the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area is an important window and high ground for China's reform and opening up, and the promotion of systematic high-level opening up is an important impetus for building the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area into a strategic pivot point of the new development pattern." Xie Laifeng, deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Regional Development Institute of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said in an interview with China Trade News.

In recent years, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have made frequent moves to open up to the outside world. The Overall Program for the Construction of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, the Program for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening-up of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, the Overall Program for Deepening the World-Facing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Comprehensive Cooperation in Nansha, Guangzhou, and the Development Plan for Shenzhen Park of Loop-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone have been released one after another. With Hengqin, Qianhai and Nansha, the Loop, mainly in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area major cooperation platform system framework gradually built, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao policies, systems, rules of docking deepen, the integration of the three places continue to deepen the development of the three places to go, the Greater Bay Area opening up the vitality of the surge of the surge of vitality.

In terms of strategic positioning, each of the four platforms focuses on opening up to the outside world. For example, Hengqin closely focuses on the original intention of promoting the moderate and diversified development of Macao's economy, bases on the service of Macao, promotes the integrated development of QIN and Macao for planning and design, focuses on building a new system of high-level opening up with Macao, and continuously improves the new system of common business, common construction, common management and sharing between Guangdong and Macao; Qianhai mainly focuses on the modern service industry, which is the advantageous industry of Hong Kong, and supports the deepening of the cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in Qianhai, and joins hands to build a comprehensive deepening of reform and innovation test platform and high-level opening up Nansha highlights the two keys of "comprehensive cooperation among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao" and "facing the world", and lays out a batch of industrial projects to synergize with Hong Kong and Macao, and public service facilities to serve Hong Kong and Macao, so as to join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to expand their opening to the outside world. The two keys are "comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao" and "facing the world".

At the end of August this year, the release of the "Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone Shenzhen Park Development Plan" puts forward the Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation Zone three major positioning is the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation and Open Cooperation Pilot Zone, the pilot zone of international advanced science and technology innovation rules, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, the pilot transformation of the agglomeration area. Guo Wanda, executive vice president of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said the three major positioning reflects the relationship between science and technology innovation and open cooperation, science and technology innovation and institutional innovation, and science and technology innovation and industrial innovation, respectively.

"Although the Loop Cooperation Zone is a very small space, only 3.89 square kilometers, it is of great strategic significance. The construction of the Loop Cooperation Zone, which is a national platform focusing on science and technology innovation, is an important initiative to promote openness and cooperation in the field of science and technology innovation. Through Hong Kong's internationalization advantage, it will strengthen international cooperation in science and technology as well as pilot the reform of the institutional mechanism for science and technology innovation. In this way, it will attract global science and technology innovation resources to gather in the Loop Cooperation Zone, and can also provide a strong impetus for the construction of the entire Greater Bay Area as well as China's high-quality development." Xie Laifeng said that the Shenzhen Park of the Loop Cooperation Zone should give full play to its unique role as a channel and platform, take the lead in promoting the integrated development of science, technology and innovation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, take advantage of Hong Kong's strengths in basic research, the business environment, and internationalized scientific research resources, and gather global high-end elemental resources and international top talents, so as to create a hub for the Greater Bay Area and even for the country to promote international scientific and technological cooperation, and to become one of the most active nodes in the global innovation network. It will also become one of the most active nodes in the global innovation network.

At the same time, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have strengthened synergy and continuously released the vitality of opening up. In terms of opening up and cooperation in the service industry, Guangdong is now vigorously promoting the comprehensive pilot project of expanding the opening up of Guangzhou's service industry, focusing on the docking of service industry rules with Hong Kong and Macao, promoting high-level opening up, and forming a batch of reforms and innovations in the areas of science and technology innovation, specialty finance, and "integration of two industries" between the service industry and the manufacturing industry. In terms of attracting foreign investment, at the end of last year, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area for the first time jointly organized the Global Investment Promotion Conference, and reached 853 cooperative projects, with a total investment of 2.5 trillion yuan. Among them, 48 major projects involving Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hyundai Motors, Siemens and other investment entities were signed on-site, involving advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, new-generation information technology, food and big health and other industrial sectors.

The continued opening up of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has also injected more confidence into enterprises. In the first half of the year, Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other 24 countries invested 12.02 billion yuan in Guangdong, an increase of 74.3% year-on-year, accounting for the proportion of the province's actual foreign investment rose to 12.4%, 5.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Among them, the EU invested 3.75 billion yuan in Guangdong in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 1 times. Gao Zhihao, vice president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) and chairman of its South China chapter, said, "With a huge market, competitive supply chain and more opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the future is promising for European companies to develop here."

Xie Laifeng talked about the four platforms of Hengqin, Qianhai and Nansha, Loop Cooperation Zone, which are staggered and synergized for linkage development. Enterprises should precisely find the right platform for themselves according to their business situation and future development strategy needs, and lay out in multiple points to give full play to the policy advantages of each platform. For example, they can set up their innovation and R&D centers in the Loop Cooperation Zone and other branches in Nansha. For Chinese and foreign enterprises, both the improvement of their R&D capability and the expansion of market space will have a positive promotion effect.

In order to further promote high-level opening-up, experts suggest that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area should deeply participate in the global industrial division of labor and cooperation, deepen practical cooperation with countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road, and continue to plough into the markets of developed countries in Europe and the United States. It should continue to expand the opening up of commodity and factor flows, enhance the ability of integrating the industrial chain supply chain externally, and realize a virtuous cycle in the domestic and international markets, resources and industries by pulling the domestic and international cycles with the domestic cycle, as well as expanding and supplementing the domestic cycle with the international cycle, so as to provide effective assistance for unimpeded domestic cycles. It will give full play to the role of Hong Kong and Macao and the early and pilot implementation of major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai and Nansha, and actively explore the rules, regulations, management and standards of high-standard economic and trade agreements, so as to enhance the quality and level of participation in the international cycle.