Experts discuss Greater Bay Area’s construction: from "small incision" breakthrough to "big change"

 

  On August 6th, half a year after the release of the Outline of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan, the 2019 Guangdong Forum for Promoting Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s High-quality Development was held in Guangzhou. Experts from national think tanks and representatives from government, enterprises and academic circles of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao gathered to offer suggestions and suggestions for accelerating the high-quality development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The theme of the forum is "innovation-driven, open and leading", which is guided by the Guangdong Provincial Leading Group Office for Promoting the Construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and sponsored by Southern Newspaper Media Group.
 
  The meeting was packed. Liu Shijin, deputy director of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Economic Committee, former deputy director of the State Council Development Research Center, director of the Academic Committee of Southern Economic Think Tank, Huo Jianguo, former president of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce and vice president of the China WTO Research Association, Wang Jun, director of the Economic Committee of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference and former president of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, and other experts brainstormed on the key issues of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s development.

  Spark of wisdom, seize "innovation+manufacturing" and make good use of industrial advantages

  The forum brought together a number of heavyweight experts, and the sparks of wisdom frequently appeared. How to give full play to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s advantages and speed up the flow of factors in Greater Bay Area has become a topic of concern for experts and scholars.

  Liu Shijin said that Guangdong has been at the forefront of the country since the reform and opening up, and its economic and social development has been at the forefront of the country, relying on pioneering, reform and opening up, and industrial transformation and upgrading. "At present, we are in a great change that has never happened in a hundred years. Guangdong has the conditions and ability to undertake the historical mission of demonstrating first."
 
  "I have noticed many industries recently, ‘ Huawei style ’ Our company is growing. China has many good advantages in innovation, such as large market, many innovative business models, especially strong industrial supporting capacity. There have been cases in which innovative products in Silicon Valley in the United States could not be solved, and finally a solution was found in Shenzhen Huaqiang North. " Liu Shijin said that Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has the most competitive and complete industrial supporting system in the world, which is the advantage of its future development. "The construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area must firmly grasp the core positioning of international science and technology innovation center and world-class advanced manufacturing center, and grasp ‘ Innovation+manufacturing ’ " .
 
  "The ultimate fulcrum of high-quality economic development is the enterprise. In Greater Bay Area, more enterprises become bigger and stronger, and more enterprises go international, which is an important support for the high-quality development of China’s economy. " Huo Jianguo believes.
 
  "To reduce the cost of coordination this ‘ Small incision ’ Key breakthroughs will drive Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area ‘ Great changes ’ 。” Wang Jun suggested.
 
  In the round-table discussion session of the forum, Deng Jiangnian, deputy director of the Institute of International Economics of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, Gong Yongde, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation Promotion Association, Lin Xinqiang, president of Qianhai Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and managing partner of Shiwen Law Firm, Gu Huinan, general manager of Guangzhou New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., Yuan Yuyu, chairman and general manager of Guangzhou Maipu Regenerative Medicine Technology Co., Ltd., and many other experts and entrepreneurs discussed "Greater Bay Area’s high-quality development enterprise responsibility". "I look forward to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area becoming a world-class Bay Area at an early date and building a number of world-class enterprises." Gu Huinan, general manager of GAC New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. is full of confidence.
 
  Concentrate on Greater Bay Area’s story of seeking common development
 
  Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest economic vitality in China, and has an important strategic position in the overall development of the country. Building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a national strategy planned, deployed and promoted by the Supreme Leader General Secretary.
 
  Since the beginning of this year, the pace of construction in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been further accelerated, and it is becoming an important power source to lead high-quality development. On February 18th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning Outline"). On July 5th, Guangdong issued the Implementation Opinions on Implementing the Outline of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan and the Three-year Action Plan for Promoting Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Construction in Guangdong Province (2018— 2020), join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to fully promote the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
 
  At the forum, provincial leaders attended and delivered speeches. Cao Dahua, deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and executive deputy director of the Provincial Greater Bay Area Office, presented awards to the winners of the Southern New Media Explosion Contest "Our Great Articles in the Bay Area". Relevant responsible comrades of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, the Provincial Department of Commerce, the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, the Provincial Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, Guangzhou Customs, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation Promotion Association and representatives of enterprises and business associations from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao attended the forum.
 
  Liu Hongbing, Party Secretary of Southern Newspaper Media Group, Director of Management Committee and President of Nanfang Daily, said that as a disseminator of information, a recorder of the times and a promoter of society, the media plays an indispensable and important role in the construction of Greater Bay Area. Focusing on the major issue of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s construction, Southern Newspaper Media Group gave full play to the advantages of its all-media platforms such as newspapers, periodicals, websites, terminals, micro-media, screens and publishing, and launched large-scale publicity reports with distinctive themes and various forms. Together with Greater Bay Area Office of Guangdong Province, it built Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) Big Data Center, launched Guangdong Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Mobile Information Portal and South+Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Channel, and displayed the vivid practice and innovation achievements of Greater Bay Area’s construction in an all-round and multi-level way, and talked about collaborative innovation.
 
  ■ Expert voice
 
  Liu Shijin, Deputy Director of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Economic Commission, former Deputy Director of the State Council Development Research Center and Director of Academic Committee of Southern Economic Think Tank:
 
  Metropolitan area drives spatial redistribution of industrial structure.
 
  "The core positioning of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is an international science and technology innovation center and a world-class advanced manufacturing center. In short, it is ‘ Innovation+manufacturing ’ We must firmly grasp this core positioning and cannot deviate. " Liu Shijin pointed out.
 
  Liu Shijin said that Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should further improve its innovation system and make further efforts in university education and basic research. He proposed that we should make up the shortcomings in a targeted manner, achieve the goal of the emergence of Nobel Prize winners in batches, and rely on the institutional and cultural environment conducive to free exploration to accelerate the construction of a number of high-quality institutions of higher learning and attract and train more "masters".
 
  Liu Shijin has repeatedly emphasized the value and significance of green development. "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Some people say that I don’t have it here, and I say that you have to solve it ‘ That is ’ The problem. " Liu Shijin pointed out that it is necessary to actively explore the accounting method of production capital service value, solve the problem of "accounting", promote the landing of the concept of green development, and make green development become the daily economic behavior of enterprises. Specifically, in the future, we should accelerate the promotion of a number of major green technologies and related institutional mechanisms and policies, so as to effectively combine green development with innovative development.
 
  "It is noteworthy that speeding up the free flow of urban and rural factors within the metropolitan area will bring high-quality development to small towns in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area ‘ New kinetic energy ’ 。” Liu Shijin thinks.
 
  In his view, the urbanization process of China is entering a new stage, a number of new first-tier cities are growing, and the metropolitan area is accelerating. The development of a large number of small towns in the metropolitan area will be the most important source of growth momentum in the future, which can stimulate infrastructure construction and residential investment. The adjustment of urban structure in metropolitan area will drive the spatial redistribution of industrial structure, and small towns will become the bearing places of manufacturing industry, while core cities can develop some high-end service industries that can bear high costs.
 
  Huo Jianguo, former president of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce and vice president of the China WTO Research Association:
 
  Guangdong should promote pioneering and testing with a brand-new concept
 
  "Guangdong has the best environment for high-level opening and high-quality development, and undertakes three important exploration tasks of reform and opening up: promoting the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, exploring the construction of Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, and building Shenzhen into a pioneering demonstration zone in Socialism with Chinese characteristics." Huo Jianguo believes that Guangdong should maintain its policy strength, concentrate on doing its own thing, grasp the new requirements of high-level opening up and high-quality development, and achieve effective breakthroughs.
 
  In Huo Jianguo’s view, China’s current reform and opening up is facing new challenges. How can Guangdong play the leading role of reform and opening up and complete the three major exploration tasks of reform and opening up? Huo Jianguo pointed out that Guangdong should grasp the connections and differences between the three major tasks of reform and opening up, each with its own emphasis. Among them, the Pilot Free Trade Zone focuses on exploring high-level openness, boldly trying and trying first, and promoting it nationwide after gaining mature experience; The construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a process of mutual compatibility and mutual promotion between high-quality development and high-level opening, which requires institutional innovation and breakthrough; The exploration of Shenzhen should focus on the long-term, consider "a game of chess for the whole country", and explore the role of driving the whole country in combination with the goal of building a modern and powerful country in 2049.
 
  "Guangdong should change its concept, grasp the key points and break through the reform." Huo Jianguo suggested that Guangdong should promote the cause of reform and opening up with a brand-new concept; Grasp the key points and pace of China’s opening to the outside world; Strengthen system innovation and give play to the basic role of rule of law; Fully implement the foreign investment law and create a fair business environment ruled by law; Accelerate the internationalization of enterprises and consolidate the achievements of open economy.
 
  Huo Jianguo believes that Guangdong enterprises should constantly improve their own quality and seize the opportunity for development; The government should do more services around enterprises. "The ultimate fulcrum of high-quality economic development is enterprises. More enterprises are bigger and stronger, and more enterprises are going international, which is an important support for high-quality economic development in China."
 
  Wang Jun, director of the Economic Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference and former president of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences:
 
  Finding the right incision and promoting the implementation of the road map task book
 
  Recently, Guangdong Province issued implementation opinions and a three-year action plan around the implementation of the "Planning Outline", and formulated a road map and task book.
 
  Wang Jun believes that it is necessary to break through the "small incision" to drive the "big change" and promote the implementation of the road map and task book. To find this "small incision", we can start with reducing the coordination cost.
 
  What is coordination cost? The construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is inter-regional cooperation, and the systems and interests of the three places are different. To take common actions, it is necessary to form a consensus; To reach a consensus, we need full communication and coordination, and the resources, time and energy invested from this are the cost of coordination.
 
  How to reduce the coordination cost? Wang Jun made three moves — —
 
  The first trick is to start with simplicity and gradually deepen to complexity. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has the advantage of "one country, two systems", and the three places have a solid foundation for cooperation and obvious industrial interaction, which has a unique advantage in integration and coordinated development. Drawing lessons from the experience of EU integration, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can promote the coordinated development in the Bay Area in the order of trade, labor and capital.
 
  The second measure is to start with incremental construction projects such as new infrastructure, new projects and new platforms, to promote the docking of rules in the stock field, and accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, ports, airports, bridges and high-speed rail projects needed for the wide application of digital technologies such as 5G, the construction of national key laboratories, and the construction of new cooperation platforms such as Nansha, Qianhai and Hengqin.
 
  The third measure is to decompose the coordination cost. Wang Jun pointed out that the coordination cost of cities in the Pearl River Delta is relatively high, but after being divided into three circles, namely, Zhujiang River, Guangfozhao and Shenwanhui, the coordination cost of each circle is reduced, and the motivation for mutual competition is improved.
 
  ■ Roundtable discussion
 
  Entrepreneurs make suggestions on the development of Greater Bay Area;
 
  R&D is transformed in Hong Kong and Macao, in the Bay Area market and internationally.
 
  Many experts and entrepreneurs talked about the development of Greater Bay Area in the round-table discussion session of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area High-quality Development Forum in 2019. Scientific and technological innovation, modern industries, business environment, professional services, and "going out" hand in hand have become hot words discussed by experts and entrepreneurs. Yuan Yuyu, Chairman and General Manager of Guangzhou Maipu Regenerative Medicine Technology Co., Ltd. said that one of the important goals of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is to build an international science and technology innovation center, and to accelerate the realization of innovation chain synergy, talent synergy and policy synergy.
 
  Industrial cooperation
 
  Accelerate the coordination of innovation chain, talents and policies.
 
  The Outline of Planning proposes to build a modern industrial system with international competitiveness. In fact, the development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has its own emphasis, and they can cooperate well in industrial cooperation and division of labor.
 
  "R&D is in Hong Kong and Macao, transformed into the Bay Area, and the market is international." Yuan Yuyu believes that "taking the biomedical industry as an example, the policy innovations of the three places can be coordinated. By allowing innovative products to enter a number of high-level hospitals, the market will be gathered, and then talents and innovative resources will be gathered to truly expand the market."
 
  "The root of industrial transformation lies in talents." Yuan Yuyu said that Maipu is currently building an innovative platform for regenerative medicine and high-performance medical devices, hoping to gather talents from all walks of life and make the industry bigger and stronger.
 
  According to Gu Huinan, general manager of Guangzhou Automobile New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., it is now in the fourth industrial revolution stage, which brings three core signs to industrial development — — Big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Everything also promote the development of the automobile industry towards electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing. With the help of a series of industrial supporting advantages, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is bound to make a difference in these areas.
 
  Link the world
 
  Enterprises can leverage Greater Bay Area to "go global"
 
  "Compared with other cities at home and abroad, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a very big advantage, that is, ‘ One country, two systems ’ 。” Gong Yongde, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Guangdong Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation Promotion Association, believes that, taking capital as an example, many mainland enterprises are facing the problem of difficult and expensive financing, but relatively speaking, the financing cost in Hong Kong is relatively low. If we can make full use of this advantage, it will be very helpful for the development of enterprises in Greater Bay Area.
 
  In Gong Yongde’s view, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a high level of internationalization, so it should join hands to "go global", attract more high-quality projects from mainland cities to Greater Bay Area, enjoy international professional services in the Bay Area, and better move from Greater Bay Area to countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative.
 
  In terms of legal services, there are institutional differences between cities in Greater Bay Area. How to coordinate development? Lin Xinqiang, president of Qianhai Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and managing partner of Shiwen Law Firm, believes that the integrated development of Greater Bay Area means that law firms and other legal service institutions need to deepen the cooperation and joint venture mechanism. The Outline of Planning provides a good opportunity and contributes to the development of cooperation.
 
  Lin Xinqiang believes that enterprises "going out" need to be more adaptable and familiar with international legal rules, which requires lawyers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to provide services together. In the future, I hope that the legal profession in Greater Bay Area can establish and improve the service network along the Belt and Road, and provide more professional services for enterprises to "go global".
 
  give full play to one’s advantages
 
  Encourage enterprises to make good use of Greater Bay Area’s cross-border financing policy.
 
  At the forum, Gu Huinan was full of expectations for the future development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area enterprises. He believes that the growth of enterprises needs fertile soil, which is of great significance for building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into a world-class bay area and a power source leading high-quality development.
 
  "Talking about the business environment, the most important thing is to retain talents." Gong Yongde particularly emphasized the role of talents in the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. "Now Guangdong has made great progress in this regard." Gong Yongde said that in order to promote the efficient flow of talent elements in the future, in addition to speeding up the improvement of the social security system, a series of preferential tax policies for talents can be introduced to attract high-end talents from all over the world to work and live in Greater Bay Area cities, so as to achieve the effect of "retaining people".
 
  For Greater Bay Area enterprises, Gong Yongde suggested that the advantages of "one country, two systems" system should be further exerted to promote the free and efficient flow of capital in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. He suggested that more enterprises should be encouraged to make good use of such policies as "enterprises in Greater Bay Area can issue RMB bonds across borders according to regulations" to reduce the financing costs of enterprises and help them accelerate their development.
 
  ■ tidbits
 
  "Our Bay Area Big Articles" Nanfang New Media Explosion Contest ended successfully.
 
  21 works from 17 units won prizes.
 
  On the 6th, under the guidance of the Network Information Office of the Provincial Party Committee and the Greater Bay Area Office of the Province, the "Our Bay Area Big Articles" Nanfang New Media Explosion Contest sponsored by Southern Newspaper Media Group and Nanfang+Client was successfully concluded. At the 2019 Guangdong Forum for Promoting High-quality Development in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 21 award-winning works from 17 units were announced.
 
  Since the launch of the event in May this year, the contest has attracted a total of more than 70 Guangdong government new media numbers to participate. Nearly 100 new media works cover various new media communication forms such as videos, H5, atlases and hand-painted long pictures, which were broadcast on the home page of the South+client, with a total gain of more than 100,000+like votes.
 
  In the end, the first prize of the contest was won by the southern number "Guangdong Release", "Guangdong Traffic Police" and "Guangzhou Conghua Release"; The second prize was won by Guangzhou Huangpu Publishing, Guangdong Public Security Publishing, Zhaoqing Publishing, Lixiang Da Lang Publishing, China Guangzhou Publishing and Huicheng Publishing. The third prize was won by Nansha Publishing, Guangdong Traffic Police, Guangdong Health Information, Hengqin Taxation, Zhongshan Publishing, Zhuhai Traffic Police, Happy Songshan Lake, Nanhai da li and Pupils Poetry Season.
 
  In addition to the first, second and third prizes, the contest also announced the best editing award, the best creativity award and the excellent award.
 
  On the same day, the forum broadcasted a short video of the winning works. At the scene, many viewers praised that the creative level of many works is comparable to that of professional media, which reflects the responsibility and responsibility of Guangdong government affairs new media to be innovative and brave in walking at the forefront of the times.
 
  Nanfang Daily reporter He Li
 
  Nanfang Daily reporter Li Fengxiang Chen Xiao Zhang Zijun
 
  Huang Xuhao and He Li (except signature)
 
  Planning: Xie Sijia, Zheng Jiaxin and Wu Zhe
 
  Coordinator: Huang Yinglai, Wu Zhe, Zheng Jiaxin
 
  Yuan Peiru Xiao Wenge
 
  This edition of photography: Nanfang Daily reporter Shi Lei Wu Weihong